“Happy Birthday James!”
Kim Sherwood and David Lowbridge-Ellis celebrate 70 Years of Bond by getting together with an audience to talk all things Fleming.
They start off by sharing their funny first encounters with the Bond books (both involved naked men as it happens!) before discussing the best order to read them in.
Kim and David get stuck into the key differences between the films and books, including the parts which readers unfamiliar with Fleming find surprising. David and Kim also read aloud some short excerpts from the novels, including their favourite character introductions (both choose their favourite ally and villain) and some of Fleming's fantastic descriptions.
Kim and David invite audience contributions throughout - there were some fantastic questions posed! This is a recording of a live event on the evening of 18th May 2023. Participants had the option of having their cameras on and you will see some of these guests in the second half of the video. Thank you to everyone who came along.
Save the date for the next live event with David and Kim on 22nd July 2023.
Kim Sherwood is the author of the Double-O series, the first book of which is Double or Nothing and was published in 2022. The second in the trilogy will be released in 2024. She is also the author of the multi-award-winning Testament (2018) and the swashbuckling A Wild & True Relation (2023). You can subscribe to Kim's Substack, The Girl With The Golden Pen, here: https://kimsherwood.substack.com/ All paid subscribers get FREE access to these live events.
David Lowbridge-Ellis is the creator and editor of Licence to Queer, a multi-platform mission to bring together LGBTQ+ fans of James Bond so we can all appreciate 007 from different angles. In 2023, he was awarded #BondCommunity Writer of the Year. Licence to Queer is based at www.licencetoqueer.com and can be found @LicenceToQueer on twitter and Instagram. David is also the Editor-in-Chief of the British James Bond Fan Club, 007GB.
Check out David's coverage of Double or Nothing here. The non-spoiler review: https://www.licencetoqueer.com/blog/book-review-double-or-nothing
Interview with Kim Sherwood (recorded July 2023, released September): https://www.licencetoqueer.com/blog/conversation-with-kim-sherwood
An appreciation of the book's gay representation, in the personage of 004 Joseph Dryden: https://www.licencetoqueer.com/blog/004-reasons-why-joseph-dryden-is-the-gay-hero-weve-been-waiting-for
