Book Fair Success!

What a weekend it was!
Don Pyatt Hall looked incredible, thanks to Liz, who spent hours sewing bunting (so cool, right?) and finding the perfect decorations.
Then, the books themselves, all marked down and arranged neatly due to the enormous efforts of Trevor, our sales rep extraordinaire, and Jonny, warehouse manager and backbone of all WP's operations.
But the best part of the whole weekend was the authors! We kicked the weekend off with Rodney Fox's launch, and that guy can tell a yarn. The hall was in stitches for his speech, then they queued up for ages to get their books signed by the man himself.
Other highlights included Lisa Fabry's talk on the guilt-free benefits of vegan desserts, which had us all drooling, and Derek Pedley's explanation of the process behind Dead by Friday — an amazing book and an amazing author. Valerie Volk's fascinating writing processes were explained, and Jude Aquilina treated us to a couple of readings. Bruce Munday explained all things stone walls and Margaret Merrilees gave an excellent overview of her work, The First Week, while Sharon Kernot explained the processes behind the creation of the world in Underground Road.
And, of course, we left Don Pyatt Hall on Sunday night with a lot less books than we'd arrived with on Friday, already talking about how we'll do it all next year.
Thanks all for coming, enjoying, giving talks or just sipping wine. It's lovely to have such a great bunch of people reading and interested in Wakefield titles, and it warms the cockles of our Wakefieldian hearts to know that more than a few of you will be reading our books over the break!