Bookfair opens
I got to the bookfair at the Queen Sirikit Convention Centre about 11:00 a.m. this morning which is a good time because you can actually breathe. By 2:00 p.m. when I left, the fair was packed.
At about noon, I did a short TV spot for our
satellite channel. When I say short, I'm mean like 30 seconds. That's
much harder than a two or three minute spot because you don't really
get a chance to explain yourself. Doing it in a second language also
makes it more difficult. I have to concentrate a lot harder in Thai and
I can't think ahead as much as I can in my native language. In the end,
we did three takes and they will take bits and pieces from each one of
them to make up the 30 seconds. We ended up selling quite a few books today, more than I expected really. There was one period were I was signing book after book but then things slowed down a bit. There is so much competition at a fair of this size that some times I'm amazed that we can sell anything at all.
I'll be back tomorrow afternoon, so if any of you are at the fair, come over to Aisle C in the plenary hall and say hello. Most of the books on display at Post Books are Thai-language pocketbooks and they are really quite good -- and not very expensive.