23 hours in Toronto
Jan. 14th, 2008 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayThis weekend was the booksigning at the "World's Biggest Bookstore" in Toronto, where we met wonderful folks, including ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
llwheeler, who'd taken a 2-hour bus ride so she could meet some of her favorite authors.
One of the best parts of the trip was being able to spend time withsylvia_rachel who is even more fun in person than she is on LJ. Sekrit message: Hi, Sylvia, thanks for the chocolate!
Other highlights including stopping at the Borders in Rochester, and at Indigo in Eaton Center in Toronto, and finding large quantities of our books in both stores, along with a staff that was eager to have us sign their stock.
Saturday night we had dinner at Grano's withsylvia_rachel, jimhines, his wife Amy, fellow travelers jennifer_dunne and jpsorrow and a good time was had by all.
scbutler arrived late Saturday night after a very long day's drive, and local author Violette Malan met us at the store for the signing, bringing us up to a total of six authors. The store staff had arranged chairs for our audience, so we started off as if we were on a panel, briefly introducing ourselves, describing our books, then answering questions from the audience and bantering among ourselves for about an hour. Then we broke off the formal part so we could sign books, and talk individually with the readers.
msagara stopped by, as did Jessica Strider who'd arranged the signing. We were having as much fun talking with each other as we did with customers, but eventually the reality of the 320 mile drive home sank in, so we said our good-byes and hit the road. The weather cooperated, and I was back home by 10PM, where I promptly collapsed.
Got up early this morning and found out that databases had crashed over the weekend, so started the day in a hole, and it's going to be a day of scrambling to try and get everything fixed. Later!
llwheeler, who'd taken a 2-hour bus ride so she could meet some of her favorite authors. One of the best parts of the trip was being able to spend time with
sylvia_rachel who is even more fun in person than she is on LJ. Sekrit message: Hi, Sylvia, thanks for the chocolate!Other highlights including stopping at the Borders in Rochester, and at Indigo in Eaton Center in Toronto, and finding large quantities of our books in both stores, along with a staff that was eager to have us sign their stock.
Saturday night we had dinner at Grano's with
sylvia_rachel, jimhines, his wife Amy, fellow travelers jennifer_dunne and jpsorrow and a good time was had by all. scbutler arrived late Saturday night after a very long day's drive, and local author Violette Malan met us at the store for the signing, bringing us up to a total of six authors. The store staff had arranged chairs for our audience, so we started off as if we were on a panel, briefly introducing ourselves, describing our books, then answering questions from the audience and bantering among ourselves for about an hour. Then we broke off the formal part so we could sign books, and talk individually with the readers.msagara stopped by, as did Jessica Strider who'd arranged the signing. We were having as much fun talking with each other as we did with customers, but eventually the reality of the 320 mile drive home sank in, so we said our good-byes and hit the road. The weather cooperated, and I was back home by 10PM, where I promptly collapsed.Got up early this morning and found out that databases had crashed over the weekend, so started the day in a hole, and it's going to be a day of scrambling to try and get everything fixed. Later!
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Date: 2008-01-14 02:46 pm (UTC)Good luck with the databases!
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Date: 2008-01-14 08:00 pm (UTC)Glad you had a good time at your first multi-author signing, and with luck we'll run into each other at a future con or signing.
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Date: 2008-01-14 03:23 pm (UTC)And SP loves her turquoise lizard, by the way. She made me attach it to her backpack this morning so she could take it to school (with her goblin tattoo).
Good luck with the database ...
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Date: 2008-01-14 08:01 pm (UTC)Glad SP liked her souvenir!
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Date: 2008-01-14 11:51 pm (UTC)You should have stopped off on your way home. I would have fed you, all of you.
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