Now also showing in Castelló de la Plana!!!

As announced in my previous question, I have applied for permission to set up a stall on the 23rd of April (World Book Day) in Barcelona. Today (2 days in advance) I start hitching there with my rucksack full of recently printed books. ("Not Now, Daddy!" in a Catalan/English/Spanish edition and a German/French/Italian one; a book of poems; and 100 copies each of 3 languages of a b/w 4pp. comic to be coloured by the reader).

I will only know WHEN I arrive at the council offices in Barcelona (tomorrow, I HOPE!) whether my application has been successful. If not, and since in Catalunya this will be "the day of the book and the rose", I will find some university students who are selling roses and use my undeniable charm to ask if I can set up a folding table next to them and pretend that we're all together, taking crass advantage of THEIR permission.

Yesterday I discovered (quite by chance) that - like the UK - Castelló de la Plana (my nearest city) holds its book fair DISPLACED! (In its case, it'll be a week [or is it 10 days?] long, starting on the 29th or 30th of April). Don't ask me why, but I ain't complainin'!

I HAD debated whether to go to the big city (Barcelona) for the 23rd or stay local. Now I find that I can do both. There'll be a stall for books from SMALL publishers, so I don't even have to be there... but I've applied to be included in the roster for book signing AND have offered a clowns performance with some new friends just met yesterday. Hopefully, I'll be able to do both on the Sunday, 3rd of May. (One of my potential clowns is a nurse in "real" life, and isn't on duty that day, others are shopkeepers who'll also be free on Sunday.)

Anybody in the Valencia area want to show up? I'll even make a fool of you! (I mean a clown: you can easily learn your part in 15minutes.) But only if you want.

Life's looking UP!!!