12/05/2024

 

Author Louisa Guise is holding an Ask the Author event in Caversham

 

Ahead of the release of her first non-fiction book How to Leave a Group Chat, author Louisa Guise is holding an Ask the Author event on Wednesday 19th June 2024, 7:15pm at Fourbears Books, an independent, family-run bookshop in Caversham, Berkshire.

Ask the Author is part of the lineup held by local writer’s group Caversham Writers. Previous local authors who have taken part include Rupal Patel, Nicolette Carter, Anita Frank, Kate Poels and Victoria Selman. Adrian Raffill, Head of Caversham Writers, will be back in the interviewer’s chair to ask Louisa about her book, her path to publication and herself.

How to Leave a Group Chat is Louisa’s first published book about communication and instant messengers. This ground-breaking non-fiction book helps you understand your relationship with your phone better, and in turn improve it so that you can become your best self. Smartphones and their use is a hot topic at the moment with schools banning phones in class, a campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood established earlier this year to ban children from using social media and reports of people increasingly turning away from more modern technology and instead buying simpler phones or even reverting back to polaroids and postcards. The book looks at changes in communication and behaviour, and why we have the relationship with our devices that we do.

This free event will be broadcast live on YouTube as well as held in person at Fourbears Books. You can sign up to attend via Caversham Writers’ Meetup page.

Pre-order your copy of How to Leave a Group Chat from Fourbears Books. Add your text in the box on the page by the 19th June and it’ll also be signed by Louisa.

How to Leave a Group Chat is being published by the Book Guild on Friday 28th June 2024.

 

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About the author

Cardiff born and bred, Louisa Guise lives to write and has had a number of poems published. How to Leave a Group Chat is her first non-fiction book which draws upon the knowledge gained from her long career as a communications professional. Louisa now lives in Reading with an army of houseplants, where, aside from writing, she enjoys yoga, fine dining and kayaking on the Thames.

About Caversham Writers

Caversham Writers was started in September 2018 by Crystal Bourque, a self-published author from Toronto in order to connect with other local writers. Since leaving England to return to her native Canada, the group has been run by local writer Adrian Raffill who is passionate about writing and supporting local writers. Since the Covid-19 pandemic ended, the group have held regular meetings at local bookshop Fourbears Books. During the pandemic the group gained members from as far afield as USA (including American author Curtin Chin), Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, France and Ireland because they held their meetings online, and they still hold regular meetings online in order to allow even more people to take part.

 

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