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Book launches come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and atmospheres. The numbers and ease of organising the celebrations for Telling Tales exceeded all my expectations. Having a catering, fiddling husband who organised background music with some friends, sure helped as did the local newsagents, 'The Washington'. Before the event, they gave the book a full shop- window display. They also dealt with the event's happy book sales.
Local folk made their way up into the newly refurbished Tolbooth Court Room, where, in days of old, felons were summarily dealt with. The assembled may well have had their own miscreant history but all that was gone at the event. Friendly, cheerful chat and a mischievous banter were exchanged in kinder, more convivial feeling surroundings.
Although I wrote the book, recalling a free, adventurous childhood, times change and often for the better, I imagine that my own words-smith ancestors would have loved word processors. Even email.
And The Tolbooth in all its revived state still carry hints of a savage past. The man -trap displayed on the way to the cells is a reminder of the days when this form of entrapment was considered an acceptable aid to the law.
It was a grand night Jane and good to see some many folk turnout. Standing room only is a fine accolade indeed.
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