Showing posts with label Romance Festival Live. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance Festival Live. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 June 2015

Romance Festival Live & Giveaway

Yesterday I was invited to the Romance Festival Live event at the the new offices for Harper Collins at London Bridge.  I've participated in Twitter & FB chats and watched hangouts for the previous online Romance Festivals but this was the perfect opportunity to chat to authors, publicists and fellow bloggers in person rather than via a computer screen.


We were totally spoilt by an abundance of talented authors, not just those shown in the invite, so I apologise in advance if I miss anyone out in this post.  The other lovely authors there were Alexandra Brown, Lucy Holliday, Carmel Harrington, Zara Stoneley, Erin Lawless and Bella Osborne.

But to make a total day out of it in London I arrived a couple of hours earlier and headed off to Trafalgar Square to catch the start of West End Live and despite the weather being a bit overcast & drizzly the atmosphere was electric.


Whilst there I managed to catch the final song from Les Miserables (my all-time favourite musical), Beautiful (the Carol King story), Mamma Mia (which literally had everyone dancing in the street) and then finally the Jersey Boys.  I could possibly have stayed a little longer to watch whoever came on afterwards but I wasn't sure how long it would take me to get from Trafalgar Square to London Bridge.

On arrival we mingled in reception until we were taken up to the 14th floor where we were welcomed by the totally glamorous Cara from Mira/Mills & Boon and offered a never ending glass of Pink Prosecco (as the lovely barman seemed to be continually topping it up!).

The view was amazing but even though I'm not normally afraid of heights I didn't want to get too close to the completely floor to ceiling glass windows to look down!