| | | Barbelith, in my time of greatest trouble, in my pit of darkest woe, I come to you. I sink to my knees before you and beg you to help me.
I need a venue.
The UEA Anthology launch is a mere (HAH!) five months away and I have been breaking my tiny brain trying to find a venue for it. Last year's is being refurbished and so far I've tried a lot of places but they all want money, the bastards. What, ideally, I need, is a bookshop with a bar in it, or vice versa. (And don't say Waterstone's Piccadilly, they charge £300 a pop).
These are my criteria:
- FREE. This almost certainly includes a guaranteed amount on the bar as a form of payment, cos as booker I will have to foot the bill if everyone's on the OJ
- Central London Zone 1 (or possibly 2, but somewhere nice)
- No more than 5 minutes' walk from the nearest tube station (remember these are Norwich folk, London newbies, and it's evil to expect them to ride a bus or overground)
- Must sell or be willing to sell booze
- Must sell or be willing for us to sell books
- Nice - if a room above a pub, a nice one. No dead mice, broken furniture, sawdust on the floor, ideally
- Arty, if at all possible, with its own crowd that might be interested in readings etc.
- Available on a Friday evening as close to 10 October as possible
Think that's it. I don't want much, do I?
PLEASE HELP IT'S DRIVING ME A little BIT NUTS |
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