Frankfurt is over, rights have been sold (and some haven't) and we're all catching up on the mounds of emails and messages that have piled up over the last week.
Publicity Manager, Emma Young has been holding the fort since we've been gone, landing the full front page of the News Review in The Sunday Times for our newly published biography of Jane Fonda. And a spread for Peter Brookes' latest book Hard Times in The Sun.
A classic 'Fairism' is 'what do you think was the book of the Fair?' Our response as Bitebackers would invariably be The Lost Journals of Bram Stoker which garnered a lot of interest from buyers, particularly after it landed on the front page of the Bookseller on the second day. The long-lost notebooks of the Dracula author were discovered in the attic of one of his great grandsons and are being published under The Robson Press imprint to coincide with the centenery of the his death in March, next year.
On Sunday evening, I flew back from the Book Fair flanked on my right by Sam-the-Editor-Man and on my left by bossman James Stephens. I had asked James earlier in the evening if he thought there was ever a chance that one day I might be his boss. He responded with a number of reasons of why such an event would never take place. Later, in search of a little solace when on board a plane that I was certain was going down, I asked James if he thought it felt like the plane was falling out of the sky. James, coolly, turned to me and said: "Katy, if the wings fell of this plane and we plummeted to our untimely death, sinking to the very bottom of the ocean, never to be recovered... I'd STILL be your boss." Comforting to know.