Saturday was an interesting day. I’d decided at the last moment to book a table at the Coventry Book Extravaganza at the Belgrade Theatre. There’s a few of these throughout the year in different towns and cities. I’m already booked into the Lichfield one later in the year, but decided to do this one as well to clear some shelf space of my books. I went along with a good spread. Once again, ‘A Hundred Years to Arras’ and ‘Calendar of Ghosts’ did well. Also, one chap bought a clean sweep of my ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ graphic novels, as well as ‘The Signal-Man’ and ‘Amnesia Agents’. Result! It was great to meet the fella who had delivered to Dave Hitchcock his first graphic novel ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’, so made a bee-line for one of my few remaining copies of mine and David’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘The Signal-Man’. There’s also always somebody who has their own family story about The Great War, which is wonderful to hear as an author; great to know that m...
