Welsh Books Council World Book Day Lecture.

Please find attached to this posting an invitation to the Welsh Books Council World Book Day Lecture.

I will be talking about 30 years of working in the publishing industry, how I started in my career and what I am working on.

I will read stories and show paintings.

I will also touch on what it is like to work in one of the only industries I know that takes its new, shining products and reduces their value by offering at a discount from day 1, that choses to work with bookclubs who demand so high a discount that the artist/writer’s royalty is reduced to pennies. I will talk about how when a book is championed by independent bookshops the industry then choose to sell large quantities at high discount to supermarkets like Tesco, Costco, undermining the same bookshops who led to the success of the book in the first place. I will talk about how when times are hard for publishing companies the easiest people not to pay are the creators of the products that are the bedrock of the industry.

I will talk about the absolute importance of the free access of all to books and literature and technology through a publicly funded and well staffed library service, in and out of school.

I promise it won’t be a rant.

I will attempt to be amusing without attempting to be a poor shadow of a stand up comedian.

Most of all I will try to be interesting.

And I will take along a prize for the most interesting question that is asked.

So, be there if you can ( you must email Menai as places are restricted, so please confirm your place and then if you can’t go let her know). And if you can’t come please share, tweet, link on facebook etc.

I will be reading an extract from Wild Swans and also talking about and reading from A Hole in the Sky.

See you there. It might be an interesting evening. I do hope so. And at the end of the day it is a wonderful venue.

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