Last night's book signing

Last night's book signing was a blast! The audience had fun, the authors had fun, and afterwards the authors/spouses/friends went out for burgers at a local diner -- a win-win for everyone.

For those of you who haven't been reading my blog lately, I had a booksigning last night at the Barnes & Noble in Cary, NC, with James Maxey and Mark Van Name. Mark wrote a wonderful account of the evening in his blog this morning, so rather than try to do the same here, just pop over to Mark's blog and enjoy. BTW -- After I check email every morning, Marks' blog is the first thing I read. Great guy, wonderful blog -- and he blogs 7 days a week. Impressive.

Also impressive and way cool was that David Drake came to the signing. Dave doesn't see why anyone would be thrilled to meet him, but I was and told him so. Heck, the man's a sci-fi legend -- check out his bibliography. Dang! Dave's a good friend of Mark's.

Thank you to Linda Maloof and Buck at the Cary Barnes & Noble for as always being gracious hosts, and as you can see in the photos below, this store has an amazing space to host events. And it's also cool and convenient that I consider it my "home" B&N store. Whenever I shop for books, that's where I go.



The panel: me, James Maxey (love the Hawaiian shirt), and Mark Van Name.



Derek (my hubby) took this photo just as we were getting started. People continued to come in, the seats filled, and there was standing room only. Cool. That's Linda Maloof up front introducing the three of us.


James Maxey and Mark Van Name (seated)
David Drake and me behind them.

Coming up tomorrow: Narrowing the plot focus for Bewitched & Betrayed even further by applying the KISS principle.

Lisa