A Saturday in October

It is a glorious Saturday morning. Not yet too hot, despite a postcard-blue sky. My children both woke in good spirits and we shared breakfast – mum, dad, Munchkin and Babou. A perfect start to the weekend.

And what am I doing now, barely an hour later? I am sitting in an air-conditioned classroom supervising some very bored-looking high school students as they sit a mock exam. Why am I doing this? Not sure – it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. To think – I could be at the pool with the kids, or enjoying a prolonged Highlands Coffee breakfast, or a million other things.

On the plus side, I have just collected some very professional-looking business cards advertising my novel and I’ve just posted order forms in the pigeon holes of all the teachers at school. Even a measly ten-percent take up would be great! It does seem that shipping copies of “IS” to Vietnam will be prohibitively expensive – so I need to find a willing courier…It would cost upwards of 125 Canadian dollars to post 50 copies out here – that’s going to make the book an expensive proposition. I guess people can still order directly from Amazon…