I’m writing this on my laptop. The ornery contraption seems to be behaving as of this moment, but given that today it crashed spectacularly on what was my first – and probably /last/ – attempt to use it in front of an audience as part of one of my talks (ho, hum), maybe I’d better make this quick! 😉

Here, as threatened, are a few pics from my first ever author visit to the Edinburgh Book Festival. [YAAAAY! Er, ‘scuse me. ;p] This (below) is me psyching myself up in the Author Yurt(!!!) with the undisputedly awesome Bali Rai…

No pics were allowed during the gig itself but the below, taken (thank you, Laura!) while the audience were settling down before the start, gives you an idea of the size of the crowd…

Yep, it was one of my biggest audiences for a while! So this was /not/ the ideal time for a certain machine to decide to throw its toys out of the pram while I was attempting to show some pics from my websites – GAH!! But thanks to the kindness of my listeners I think I got away with it. This was a fine session, with some terrific questions – and check out the signing queue afterwards…!

Here (below) is a pic of a young gentleman called Callum. My thanks to him and to everyone I spoke to for giving me such a warm welcome.

--------------------------

Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Me and THE WEBSPHINX would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at the Tim, Defender of the Earth Guestbook for current or Tim stuff, or The Black Tattoo Guestbook for Black Tat stuff. First (or demon-!) names only, please. 😉