Mill and swill and sundry

[jhetley]

Managed to survive the "reception" for our local Book Festival last night, using my standard social tactic of grabbing a glass of wine and finding a safe corner to put at my back.  I am not a public person.  The venue had interest, at least, one of the "lumber baron" mansions that dot our fair city and represent what God would build if He had the budget.  Nice woodwork.

Note to Elder Son -- ran into the librarian who used to supervise your volunteer work.  She remembers you after all these years and made the connection of names.  Says "Hi!"

Nice day, blue sky and cool fresh Canadian air, none of the tailpipe trash from Boston and NYC.  I may make another cider run back into the hill country, in hopes of those Greening apples I missed last time. 

Reading aloud from DRAGON'S TEETH at the library this afternoon.  Maybe I should have saved some of that wine...

Comments

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

cool fresh Canadian air

Think we could have some of that back? It's currently 70F here. Which doesn't sound bad until you add in the humidity, then it's 85F.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

No, you sent it over here, we're keeping it. But you can come and visit it...

(Hope to get a chance to see you while you are visiting Kristen.)

Reading

[(Anonymous)]

And I'll just jump in here before Jim does -- the reading went really quite well. There was the problem of the dipping microphone, but no harm...

Kristen

Re: Reading

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Easy for you to say -- that mike didn't attack _you_.

I was amused to note what percentage of the audience had Book Festival tags hanging around their necks. I think we had maybe 10% civilians and the rest either organizer-people or other authors...

I signed one book. I think Kristen signed one. Not a great time/sales ratio.

Re: Reading

[(Anonymous)]

One, yes, but that's one new reader. That one new reader could lead to further new readers!

And, it's not always about the sales...

K