{"id":928,"date":"2015-11-05T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=928"},"modified":"2015-11-11T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:30:20","slug":"exclusive-books-coffee-mornings-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/exclusive-books-coffee-mornings-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Books &#8220;Coffee Mornings&#8221; &#8212; November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/775\/22185920463_13f1a08ea0_o_d.jpg?w=810&#038;ssl=1\"  alt=\"Sketchnotes: Lynne -- from Penguin Random House\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/651\/22388713857_9f6dc40ec9_o_d.jpg?w=810&#038;ssl=1\"  alt=\"Sketchnotes: Sarah -- from Jonathan Ball Publishers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/693\/22781088266_22cb3a14fb_o_d.jpg?w=810&#038;ssl=1\"  alt=\"Sketchnotes: Helene -- from Penguin Random House\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday 3 November 2015, I headed off to Bedford Centre, carrying my trusty Moleskine.<\/p>\n<p>I was heading for Bennigan&#8217;s, a restaurant one floor above Exclusive Books.<\/p>\n<p>The event was something I&#8217;ve never attended&#8230; some sort of bookish chat by publishers to people interested in such things.<\/p>\n<p>For R35 entry fee, everyone gets a cup of coffee (or tea), and a generous slice of cake. <\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what to expect. <\/p>\n<p>What I saw was loads of books. And loads of book club members. Mostly elderly women.<\/p>\n<p>And three representatives of two publishers&#8230; Jonathan Ball and Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n<p>They each gave a short presentation, giving micro reviews and opinions on books in their stables which they believe will be excellent reads.<\/p>\n<p>These are the sketchnotes I made in my notebook as they spoke.<\/p>\n<p>At the end, the Exclusive Books staffers running the event made a surprise announcement. They said that everyone would be getting a free book.<\/p>\n<p>I scored an uncorrected book proof of Reif Larsen&#8217;s novel, I AM RADAR.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Share-Widget Button BEGIN -->\n<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" myshare_id=\"mys_shareit\" myshare_url=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/exclusive-books-coffee-mornings-november\/\" myshare_title=\"Exclusive Books &#8220;Coffee Mornings&#8221; &#8212; November\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\" return false;\" style=\"text-decoration:none; color:#000000; font-size:11px; line-height:20px;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"810\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-widget\/img\/share-button-white-small.png?fit=810%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"20\" alt=\"Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nvar _myssmw=true;\n\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<!-- Share-Widget Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 3 November 2015, I headed off to Bedford Centre, carrying my trusty Moleskine. I was heading for Bennigan&#8217;s, a restaurant one floor above Exclusive Books. The event was something I&#8217;ve never attended&#8230; some sort of bookish chat by publishers to people interested in such things. For R35 entry fee, everyone gets a cup of coffee (or tea), and a generous slice of cake. I had no idea what to expect. What I saw was loads of books. And loads of book club members&#8230;.<span class=\"clearfix clearfix-post\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/exclusive-books-coffee-mornings-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Exclusive Books &#8220;Coffee Mornings&#8221; &#8212; November&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-eY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}