A reading from Festival

I've done a few readings from Close Your Eyes in the past (they can be found in this post on my website, and include a walk along the boardwalk at sunrise), but I've never done a reading from Festival - until now!
Festival is a coming-of-age novella set in 1990s London (England), and Toronto. There is a very kind review here on the Reader's Favorite site  ( The ending of the book left me heartbroken. I still have not made my peace with it. But the end somehow fits the story. I loved this book.  ) and there are definitely people who have enjoyed Festival more than Close Your Eyes, which has been my more broadly popular book.
​In this video I do a brief reading from one of the Toronto scenes.

Festival is here on Amazon US (and is on most international amazon sites), and is also enrolled in Kindle Unlimited if folks subscribe to that.

In other writing news, I participated in NaNoWriMo this November (despite the controversies that sprang up 1/2 way through the month) and after months (years?!) of prep work and background reading, finally hammered out a first draft of Book TWO of my young adult trilogy.
I continue to hold onto Book One by the way, hoping I can find a traditional publisher to take it and the trilogy as a whole.

​Best wishes everyone :)