When literary author Clare Dudman posted about her experiences last year, I was the first to comment as the week sounded and looked so good. This year, Clare returns to Languedoc along with crime fiction author Chris Simms and prolific writer Crysse Morrison.
This is the link you need to explore the wonders available and to get you there: 7 Day Wonder.
This is a week for book lovers. You have the chance to relax and enjoy what you normally enjoy, but in a concentrated format and with the opportunity to discuss the books you love, directly with the authors. The setting is real and not fictional, and just gorgeous! (Do check out the pictures on the main site, as well as Clare's blog. You won't be disappointed. I suspect you'll be very tempted...)
7 Day Wonder do a remarkable job in connecting authors with readers, so do check it out.
As for the crime element and Chris Simms; I recently got my hands on a copy of his début novel Outside the White Lines, which came across as something of quite some originality when mentioned at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival last year. He's since moved on to more novels, bigger and better, so his reputation suggests, but something set on the UK motorway network caught my eye. I recently started reading Outside the White Lines and I have to say that I am intrigued. Simms has created a rather feral road-rage fictional male out there and I already see the daily motorway grind in another light. (Preferably day light.) By God it's nasty, but more on that later, when I've finished the novel.
7 Day Wonder do offer so much when it comes to a holiday based on interest, so please take a look. I wished I was there last year and I wish I could make it this year, but, alas, it clashes with the Harrogate Festival and I also have a wedding to attend in July!
John, I sympathise. I want to be somewhere else in my life right now, but I think that would involve a Tardis too. All the best to you!
Posted by: crimeficreader | 24 April 2007 at 20:04
I don't want to be here. I want to be in Languedoc. But I'm so busy and there are people coming to stay and I have deadlines to meet and all these things conspire to make Languedoc seem even more attractive. I finally understand what people mean when they say, you can't get there from here.
Posted by: John Baker | 23 April 2007 at 15:28
Could be -- if it has a good guest list!
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Posted by: Peter | 23 April 2007 at 01:26
I think it is, yes. Book for next year, perhaps?
Posted by: crimeficreader | 22 April 2007 at 21:00
I can feel the sun beating down as I grow drowsy reading! Is this an annual event?
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
Posted by: Peter | 22 April 2007 at 03:22