The Kite Auction is now live and Comes the Night is officially launched.

Journalist and award winning writer Susan Johnson did the honours with a lively In Conversation at Avid Reader, after being introduced by the lovely Alex Adsett, agent extraordinaire.

As well as introducing Susan, Alex brought a plateful of homemade cup cakes with the cutest toppers to share.

It was the loveliest afternoon, and of course, we launched this Hope Flies site, and two people offered the audience a Q code, that allowed them to visit this site for the first time.

Karen Hawley was a special guest because she knew all about the good work Red Kite are doing, from personal experience, and had agreed to speak. It was so much more meaningful to have her than an official from Red Kite, and I was really grateful that she agreed to share her story. You will be able to read her story a little later in the month, when Karen Hollands interviews her for this site.

Susan asked wonderful questions that allowed me to talk about things I might not otherwise have thought to say. It is a strange thing to talk for the first time about something you have been working on alone for such a long time. At first it seems impossible – it took you three hundred pages to say it, how can you possibly reduce it to a sound bite? But the right astute questions simply unlocks some of the thinking behind a book, even to the person who wrote it.

Isobelle 🙂