Vromans
Monday 7th April and the sun is shining in Los Angeles. In each city on a book tour, authors are looked after my media escorts. I struck it lucky in LA with Claudia, LA born and bred and just the best advertisement for the city. A whistle stop tour, pointing out all the legends and the landmarks (handy for a blog), the beautiful Ocean always just at the edge of our vision, and everywhere so green and filled with red, yellow, orange and purple flowers.
Another drop-in book signing, in Barnes and Noble, which finished with us browsing in the kitchen specialist shop 'Sur la Table' opposite and a promise from the manager, John, to cook me his signature pasta dish next time I was passing through.
Vromans is one of the most famous of independent bookstores in America, out in Pasadena, so I was thrilled to be invited to give a talk and a signing, a date added quite late to my tour schedule.
The audience was fantastic - asking the sorts of questions all authors dream of answering in public, about process, about inspiration, about character. Most exciting of all was that Katie, introducing the event, had noticed the 19th century design of Sepulchre, complete with black title page, so had acquired a silver and a gold pen for me to use in the signings. I've been wanting this the whole tour, so it made the evening even more memorable.
As you can see, the business of flying, room service, talking, then starting all over again the next morning, is starting to get to me! But, I love LA, I loved the event, and found myself, as a result, answering the 'what are you working on next question' even more comprehensively than usual. In fact, I learned quite a lot about what I was intending to do last night, just listening to myself!
I'll be sorry to leave. And, next time, hope to be able to come for the Book Festival at the end of April and meet other - and local - authors.
A bientôt. And, hopefully, not too long.
Kate
Another drop-in book signing, in Barnes and Noble, which finished with us browsing in the kitchen specialist shop 'Sur la Table' opposite and a promise from the manager, John, to cook me his signature pasta dish next time I was passing through.
Vromans is one of the most famous of independent bookstores in America, out in Pasadena, so I was thrilled to be invited to give a talk and a signing, a date added quite late to my tour schedule.
The audience was fantastic - asking the sorts of questions all authors dream of answering in public, about process, about inspiration, about character. Most exciting of all was that Katie, introducing the event, had noticed the 19th century design of Sepulchre, complete with black title page, so had acquired a silver and a gold pen for me to use in the signings. I've been wanting this the whole tour, so it made the evening even more memorable.
As you can see, the business of flying, room service, talking, then starting all over again the next morning, is starting to get to me! But, I love LA, I loved the event, and found myself, as a result, answering the 'what are you working on next question' even more comprehensively than usual. In fact, I learned quite a lot about what I was intending to do last night, just listening to myself!
I'll be sorry to leave. And, next time, hope to be able to come for the Book Festival at the end of April and meet other - and local - authors.
A bientôt. And, hopefully, not too long.
Kate
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