Hello all. This is not only my first blog as a member of the Blackstaff team (having only started on Monday morning) but it is also my first blog ever. Unlike my namesake Julie Powell of Julie and Julia fame I have, to date, been a stranger to what I believe they call ‘the blogosphere’ but it’s great to have finally arrived.
I’m also very fortunate to have arrived at Blackstaff at a really exciting time, just as a number of our forthcoming titles are on their way to press and the launches for recent titles are taking place. Indeed this Sunday (11 October) we’ll be making our way up to Ballymoney where Flying Finn, Stephen Davison’s tribute to Martin Finnegan, one of Ireland’s best-loved and most successful road racers, will be launched at the Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre between 1.30 and 5.30pm. While next Friday evening sees the launch of A Salute From the Banderol: The Selected Writings of Sam Hanna Bell as part of a weekend long programme of events at the Linen Hall Library to celebrate the centenary of this great Northern Irish author’s birth.
Hope to see some of you there, and now that I’ve cracked this blogging business I’ll be sure to keep you all up to date with any future Blackstaff books or events I think you might enjoy.
JS
