Staines Waterstones After a quick bowl of soup, Kit jumped in her car and whizzed over to Staines to be with Natalie and the Staines staff for another visit to this busy branch. Natalie had made a really beautiful display of the books on special sparkly green material - very appropriate for books featuring green magic! Several readers came in to buy the third book, and there were many new readers too. As ever, the Waterstones staff made Kit very welcome and it's always lovely that they buy the Stonewylde books for themselves too.

Kit was thrilled to be invited to a book signing at this massive branch of Waterstones - the biggest one in the country, and billed on their website as the largest bookshop in Europe! Jason the Events Manager made Kit very welcome, although he did sit her under a gigantic Dalek! Kit was delighted that many Stonewylde fans came in specially to see her, and how clever - buying sets of all three Stonewylde books, personally dedicated and signed - all their Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop! This branch has now decided to hold substantial stocks of all three books, so Piccadilly is the place to go if you want more copies of Stonewylde immediately.

Publication date of Solstice at Stonewylde

Kit spent a brilliant hour and a half at this Aladdin's Cave of hardware, which used to be a local shop to her when she lived in Weymouth. There were people waiting for her arrival, eager to get their advance copy of the third book, and it didn't stop during her time there. They kept on coming! She really enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces who'd come specially, and was delighted at everyone's excitement. Some were stocking up on Christmas presents too, so the trilogy of books went down very well. Many thanks to Malcolm and Terri for arranging the event, which was a first for them. The local reporter came and took some photos too, so watch out for some more coverage in the Dorset Evening Echo.