Pics from Manchester launch of The Birth Machine

...the first with great thanks to novelist Clare Dudman, who blogs about the event here. Blogger Clare Conlon posts about it here.


Look at them all chatting ten to the dozen: a really lively audience!

Reading Clare's blog reminds me of my nick-name, the Zedster, which Benjamin Judge, who was also present, gave me when I won his World Literary Cup this summer, and, really, it's how I should have signed his book! Ben, I should add, was shortlisted for the MLF novel-pitching event last weekend - congratulations, Ben!