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I didn’t get to do any book events at all for my debut novel back in 2020. I had agreed to do a very fun book tour including book-store visits, dinners and festivals (including Latitude, one of my favourite UK festivals). Everything got cancelled very dramatically of course, because of the Covid lockdowns. Instead, like many of us, I sat on Zoom for two…