Day two of the Reading Festival was easier, in a way, despite being harder. Instead of one author to corral, plus her illustrator, I had four visiting authors because the crime writing session had turned into a panel discussion about the rise of crime fiction in Ireland. Thankfully I knew three of the four through interactions on my blog. Writers always love people who read and promote their work. The fourth was a friend of one of the others.

The downside was that I had to chair the panel discussion and I’d never done that before. The upside was that Linda offered to do all the room setup and checking of tickets so all I had to do was concentrate on was being lovely to our writers. The session went well. Two of them knew each other for years and spent the entire time winding each other up, wh...

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