A Wilder Vein is selling!

Great news from Two Ravens Press that A Wilder Vein is meeting with enthusiasm from book-buyers in its first month on the shelves. A few good/interesting reviews and coverage through its contributing writers appearing on Radio Four's Excess Baggage, Sara Maitland's piece in the Observer last Sunday, and the Guardian Travel section this coming Saturday, are helping to spread news of the title. But hopefully it's also a 'word-of-mouth' phenomenon, always the most reliable and sustained method.

'A Wilder Vein' is launched

'A Wilder Vein' was launched last week - twice! First we were at the Aberfeldy Watermill (pictured above left to right with Norma Gray and Ruth Tauber of the Watermill; contributors Andrew Greig, Alison Grant, Kenny Taylor, Mandy Haggith, and me). Then we were in Edinburgh as part of the Radical and Independent Book Fair where the readers were Judith Thurley, Jane Alexander, Ken Wilkie and Andrew Greig. It was wonderful to hear 'live' versions of the pieces I'd enjoyed on the page, and witness the diversity and the synergy between them.

I'm now looking forward to the feature on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage this Saturday at 10am when John McCarthy will be in conversation with contributors Andrew Greig and Sara Maitland. Local media are also making something of it here and there's a lovely review from Cameron McNeish here which also appears in TGO magazine.