The race is on!
The end of week one : The countdown begins to reach that final TOP TEN in Spread the Word World Book Day 2008, and already I'm chewing my nails. Goodness alone knows what I'll be like by the end of January almost ten weeks away. I probably won't have any fingers left! Had a missive from the World Book Day Spread the Word campaign today about how it's going. The first week of voting and two articles have appeared on it: Guardian Unlimited and The Bookseller, plus there's a piece on the BookTribes blog. As the Guardian article says not all the authors are actually 'hidden gems' some of them are already 'Names' so I'm up against the BIG BOYS now. Here are the links to the articles for those of you interested. http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2215448,00.html http://www.thebookseller.com/news/48726-top-100-push-for-wbd.html http://www.booktribes.com/blog/2007/11/23/hidden-gems-discovered/ Next week Classic FM in partnership with National B...