SWEET VALLEY CONFIDENTIAL DAY: SYDNEY
As many of us are aware, Sweet Valley Confidential fever is upon us. And nowhere in the world is it bigger than right here, in Australia.
Some of you have suggested - and indeed it has been an idea of mine for some time - that we meet up to read/discuss/drink/laugh over the new book on that not-too-distant day, Tuesday March 29th.
Don’t laugh, I’m actually serious. And yeah, I planned annual leave around the release of SVC.
I don’t know where the majority of people are based, but I am close to Sydney and would be happy to hang out there for the day.
How would this sound for a Sweet Valley day on Tuesday, March 29th this year:
1. I pre-order a stack of Sweet Valley Confidential from Borders Bondi Junction [some hard copy, some paperback]
2. Everyone who wants to join dresses up as their favourite SVH character. [I will be in Evil Twin costume - but Sweet Valley IS dopplegangland so 10 Margos is totally acceptable.]
3. We congregate at Borders at 930am [opening time] and get our copy of the book.
We catch the rail* to Darling Harbour [a 20 minute trip] for a cruisy morning reading session. I will provide a picnic of pretzels, soda water and other Sweet Valley-themed food. *Please note that this plebeian experience is not so we can mix with people like the Martins [ew!] but so we can sympathise and shoulder pat those poor, poor, people who use public transport.
4. We open the wine [warm, and served in paper cups, of course] and play the Sweet Valley High board game [possibly with drinking game rules!]. I might even think of some other SVH themed activities - trivia [inspired by Caroline Pearce]; “Who Would You Do” [inspired by Nicholas Morrow’s experiment on ‘Hunks’] and “Never Have I Ever” using experiences from the 500-odd Sweet Valley books in existence.
5. We head over to the Palomar House equivalent - James Squire at Darling Harbour - for drinks and lunch and to hang out with our new found friends.
If this sounds like your kind of day, please leave a comment/ contact me via email
Winston.egbert@hotmail.co.uk and we can organise numbers, transport, maps, table bookings and other logistics. I am happy to pre-order a few books and be reimbursed later.
Also - if the weekend following that would be better suited, or you have another idea, let me know. If we start getting an idea of numbers now, we can fine tune the details closer to the 29th, and get ready to party like the Droids are rocking and it's 1983...
