Over the coming weeks and months I will be taking Shell Shocked Britain around the country to give talks at various locations keen to have it as part of the First World War commemoration projects. So far, I have been invited to speak at the following venues:

8th October 2014            Epsom Library War and Words Festival. Further details and booking.
10th October 2014          Somerset Museum. Talk & Tea in aid of Mind in Taunton. Museum details.
22nd October 2014         Book launch at Foyles Bookshop in Bristol. Further details.
29th October 2014          Waterstones in Leeds for Leeds Big Bookend Festival. Further details and booking.
11th November 2014      Brendon Books in Taunton for Taunton Literary Festival. Further details and booking
14th November 2014      Talk for Taunton Association for Psychotherapists, United Reformed Church, Taunton. Further details.
17 November2014          Holloway Road Central Library for Islington Local History. Further details TBA
5th December 2014        The World War One Lecture Series, Wiveliscombe Civic Society. 
W/C 23rd February 2015 Southend Library. Details TBC
9th September 2015     Hornsey Historical Society. Further details TBA

More talks will be announced as and when details become available, and it would be lovely to see you!

Great news on the Dandelions and Bad Hair Days front. After many months the publisher has now handed me a manuscript formatted for Kindle and just before the weekend I uploaded it - the first time I have done such a thing. Exciting!

For the bargain price of £3.08 (a very odd price set by Amazon when I put in £2.99...) you can have instant delivery to your Kindle, or to Kindle for Android or PC - making it available to anyone. Even those of you with an iPad!

As an eBook the margins are very good and as with the paperback about £2 from each copy sold will go to the mental health charities - all the profits made. So if you can, do download it. It has all 5* reviews and lots of great quotes such as  'inspiring' and 'heartfelt and personal'. 

I have also set up my own small press to publish and promote ebooks. Further news about Mickleden Press soon!

On 29th March 2013 I will be hosting the first edition of my new radio show on 10Radio, a Community Radio station based in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. 

I find myself in the hotseat almost by chance, having been on the show as an interviewee and merely chancing to ask if they had a book programme in the schedule. 'No! Would you like to host one?'. So 'Talking Books' is born.

I am very nervous as the first show approaches, but excited of course. The basic format will be fortnightly half hour long programmes that will focus on a different genre each time and including an interview with a local author, poetry requests and reviews and news on what is just reaching bookshops and what is (and should be!) topping the charts. I do hope you will listen in, if not within signal range, then online from anywhere in the world via the 10Radio website at www.10Radio.org. Remember - 11am fortnightly from the 29th March 2013 and then via my blog. If you have any ideas about topics to cover or books you might like reviewed or discussed then just let me know via suzie@suziegrogan.co.uk.