Meetin’ the readers
Tonight was the reading at 32 Books and it was a big, fat success - if I do say so myself. Deb & staff were so welcoming and even though I got lost once (Google Maps told me to drive 2.4 km and I swear that’s exactly how far I drove, but I’d gone too far - boo Google Maps!) because I always get lost driving to North Van, I was still on time. Yay me.
The coolio-ist part was that there were, you know, real live teenagers there who’d, you know, really read the book and had completely interesting questions. I was only sorry that there was a lineup and I didn’t get to talk to a couple of them more. I was dying to hear more of their thoughts and questions. Plus, one of them thought maybe I could come to her school. Given the Whistler road trip white-knuckler, I’m so there…
The crowd was really taken with two things that I wouldn’t have thought would be that interesting to anyone but the author: 1/ Stuff I’d fought to keep in even after the editor suggesetd that I take it out (see especially paragraph at the bottom of page 78) and 2/ the epigraphs that I’d scotched after urging from the publisher. (See one here.)
That’s what makes live events so unpredictably fantastic.
If you’re reading this, 32 Books, thank you.
Posted by in 07:53:26
That sounds like so much fun! Did anyone ask you good questions, if there was a question period?
That sounds like so much fun! Did anyone ask you good questions, if there was a question period?
Forgive my double post…
Yes, people asked wonderful questions. Books that inspired me when I was a teenager (that’s a post in its own right), specific stuff about the end of the book (dealing with that here would be major spoiler action), how I knew that out of all the ideas that came to me this was the one I would choose to write about, why it took me so long to write this book, etc. etc. I could have gone on and on…
And I got to sign a book to a girl’s cat, which I’ve never done before. So, if you’re reading this, Pitter Pat, I hope you’re enjoying the book, kitty!
I know. You should be able to hit Undo when you’re posting and you change your mind. Like “Unsend message” or whatever that option is in email. I’m always to chicken to try using it, but it’s SO tempting…
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