Another Catch Up. I went to Twitter HQ!

I really need to add "write a blog post" to my daily list of stuff to do...

Anyway, what's happened recently?

Well, I guess a rather exciting thing for me was that last Wednesday, I went to Twitter UK's headquarters, to talk to about 100 people about #BuyAStrangerABook!

Twitter have been huge supporters of this initiative. Before Christmas, they contacted me to ask if I could send them a mix of books for them to send to some of their favourite people off Twitter.

So, I did. 

And they did. 

a parcel sent to @greg_jenner

And then, last month, they asked me if I could come and talk to people about #BuyAStrangerABook, for a thing they were doing called #StandWithThem. 

So, I did. 

yikes!

It was nerve racking, but everyone there was amazing, and it was such a great opportunity to tell more people about it.

Oh yeah, the other people on the panel, who btw do superballistic things on Twitter, were:

 Femi Oluwole (@femi_sorry)

...and Susie Dent (susie_dent)

Follow them both immediately, if you don't already.

What else happened...?

Oh yeah. There's a thing the shop does, called The Big Green Book Club. 

It's a subscription service, where we post you a book each month, based on your own personal tastes (we send out a simple questionnaire, which gives us an idea of the kind of books to send out)

It's great, and at the moment, there are around 150 people in the Club. 

Well, anyway the questionnaires were sent here to my new place from the Bookshop in early January. 

But they didn't turn up. 

That was a bit of a blow. Thankfully, there's a record of Club members names on the computer (which also got lost in the post, but has now arrived!), so I spent a fair time going through emails and piecing together all the details from there. 

It's done (I think) and apart from about three people, whose books are finally being sorted today, I have posted them all off. 

I sent off the "I am in a train" badges to all the Patreon members (if you want to join our Patreon, you can join HERE), and have arranged a meeting with someone from Patreon, so that I can use the darned thing properly!

A huge thanks to the publishers who've sent us books. My kids are delighted and have got stuck into them already. 

Reviews will be forthcoming very soon, I promise.

Those are all the main things I've done.