INCEPTIO launches at Tunbridge Wells Waterstones tomorrow at 7pm. If you’ve been watching this blog, you probably know this. 😉 Am I excited? Nervous? Confident?
My honest answer is that I haven’t had time to think about it. All I can focus on right now are the things still to do: pack my notes, get the guest book ready, check the banner stand, easel, photos, spare box of books, check outfit, polish shoes, check drinks and nibbles.
If I start thinking ahead to the time I will stand up in front of a room full of people and talk for thirty minutes about me and INCEPTIO, I might give way to a little wobble.
At the moment I see the launch evening tomorrow as the the end of a long journey, the place I’ve dreamed of being. Having a beautiful-looking book and a bunch of five-star reviews already are terrific confidence-boosters.
While writing notes for my talk and probably the weeks before, if I’m honest, I’ve been forgetting how to spell words, taken the wrong shopping list with me, put things down in the house in wrong places. But nothing has been terminal.
I think the main thing is not to rush around in reaction to a surge of panic. Stop for five seconds, take a deep breath and carry on at three-quarter speed. That’s what I do. Whether it works or not is anybody’s guess, but it calms me.
Will it work tomorrow evening? I’ll let you know in a few days’ time…
Good luck, Alison, I’m sure it will be brilliant – and that you’ll soon have a lot more fab reviews, too! x
Thanks, Debbie, for your comment and your confidence. I am looking forward to it. Now where did I put my notes…?
You’ll be great on the night! Look forward to seeing you there and helping to sell those books!
Denise
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Thanks, Denise. Your offer of help accepted with alacrity!
But I think we’ll have fun!
So sorry I cant be there! I’m quite nervous about my own so I know what youre going through and this is my secondtime around. Good Luck and kill ’em dead!
Also sorry you can’t be there. Hope your event goes well
and the swords and axes swing appropriately!
Good luck Alison, I am sure that it will be a great experience for you and your guests.
Thanks, Michael. I hope I’ll entertain them as well as inform them. And maybe generate a few laughs.Possibly.
Good luck! It’s going to go brilliantly!
Thanks, Claire – glad of your confidence in me. All the stuff’s ready to go, nibbles prepared, bubbly chilled. Better go and do my nails…