How long is too long to spend planning a book launch, you know, if it’s your first book? A year? A decade? A lifetime? I began planning my book launch when I started my first novel. That was fourteen years ago. The novel, which is in the proverbial bottom drawer (let’s be generous and call it a work-in-progress), took a while. I kept breaking off to write the guest list, and to ponder outfit options. I have a friend who spent years fantasising about what she would wear to her