Back from a wonderfully wonderful signing/reading. I couldn't have asked for a better crowd. I really didn't know what to expect today, since about twenty people I'd e-mailed said that they ALL had things to do (I'm going to stop being supportive of the people who ALWAYS say that to me - I go to event after event when these people ask me, and they NEVER show up at mine - they can just KISS MY ASS from now on - if they can find it). For a while, I thought it might just be The Pogue and I, but by two o'clock we actually ran out of chairs and people were standing. That was a first for me. The signing was held upstairs, which is a change for the better, I think. Very cozy, and much more intimate and fun. I read a few bits from the book, and there was a lot of laughter, and even some audible shock during certain sections where you come to find out what's happening to the protagonist. The best part was that there were quite a few people I didn't know at all - people who'd just heard about the signing and came because it sounded interesting. Of the folks I knew, we had La Pogue, Mr. Kevin Spirtas, my cousin Dee Dee (and her little dog Casey, who loves my books), film composer John Scott, both of my LACC assistants, one of whom brought her two beautiful boys, five and three years of age. Tammy's mother, Susan, was there, too. We sold a few books, everyone loved the Parisienne cake and all in all it was the best LA signing I've ever had. People really seem to be responding to this book, which pleases me no end. Heard from dear reader PennyO, who professed to think it my best work.
