A report on my appearance on BBC Radio Gloucestershire’s Chris Baxter Show yesterday
“I love this book! It’s festive, fun and a bit silly at times!” said BBC Radio Gloucestershire presenter Chris Baxter yesterday, when I was a guest on his excellent afternoon show. “It gets your imagination going, which stories at Christmas need to do.”
I’d been invited to talk about Stocking Fillers, my Christmas book of short stories, and I was thrilled to hear that Chris had been enjoying reading it on the train on his way to work that morning. We talked about the writing process, when I’d started writing them (high summer! – more about that here), and the challenge of writing short pieces.
After that, I was invited to read extracts from some of my favourite stories, which of course I was very pleased to do. I can now describe the book as “as featured on BBC Radio”, which is a terrific endorsement.
As ever, it was a joy to take part in a BBC Radio Gloucestershire programme, and I came away, as always, so impressed with what a great job they do bringing the community together and spreading goodwill throughout the county, not only at Christmas but all year round.

And this time, there was also something else to take away: a request from Chris Baxter for some ghost stories for next Christmas. Hmmm, I’ll have to give that one some thought…
In the meantime, if you’d like to listen to interview, for the next month you can catch up with it on BBC iPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02dsf6d
(from 1 hour 10 minutes into the programme)

If you’re in Gloucestershire and would like to pick up a last-minute, er, stocking filler, the book’s currently stocked at four local independent shops:
The Cotswold Bookroom in Wotton-under-Edge
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (branches in Tetbury and Nailsworth)
The Hawkesbury Shop (general village store)
And you can download an ebook from online retailers at any time. (Paperback also available for online purchase.)
Merry Christmas reading, folks!
