Novelicious Goes To…Rosie Blake’s Book Launch

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.

By Amanda Keats

Going to a book launch is great fun when you know nobody. Heading to Rosie Blake's launch for How to Get a (Love) Life was a whole other level of incredible.

Team Novelicious were out in Soho in force to celebrate Rosie's hilarious new novel and she was clearly delighted to finally have a book out there in the world to be read.

After dumping my coat in a bath (seriously!) and wondering why my worst nightmare had been realised as there were toilets out in the bar space, I said hello to the lady in question and many other brilliant writers and bloggers from the Twittersphere.

Having so many Novelicious members under one roof got us a little bit excited – cue impromptu photoshoot! (see below!)

In her hilarious thank you speech, Rosie thanked the Novelicious Books team for all the work that went into the launch of the book and her agent Clare at the Darley Anderson Agency. She went on to the thank the online folk she so adores. 'We think it's normal that everything is [hashtag] #lol,' she laughed. Twitter is a massive part of Rosie's writing life and she thanked her online friends for all their support. Of course, she also thanked those of her friends IRL ('in real life' to those not on Twitter), saying that it was odd to have everyone merged together in one group! With a final thank you to husband Ben, the party continued.

It was later on when I was told to head upstairs and see what was up there. I did as told and discovered a bed! And you thought the toilet was odd … cue Novelicious photoshoot part two.

Congrats Rosie! Thanks for the laughs.