And so the nightmare began. In the end the party was a disaster. The author got irate and politician Tony Banks, a small but incredibly intimidating man, proceeded to shout at me for the lack of champagne. I think not. And the list goes on.
Authors can be very trying.
Yes, we understand that they've spent a long time creating their masterpiece but sometimes the media doesn't agree. Genre fiction writers are probably the best of the lot. I find it annoying that their books aren't taken as seriously as they should be, but I plod on in my mission to change that. Unfortunately sometimes it leads to being derided in literary diaries but I learnt my lesson and will say no more. Probably the best thing about my job is talking to people I've admired from a young age.