My Fabulous Weekend!
Hubby and I took a road-trip of about 4 1/2 hours to Lebanon, Tennessee Saturday for the second signing on my Great Midwestern Book Tour (Plus Tennessee)! What a great time we had thanks to Jill Fazio and the amazing ladies of the Bloodlust Book Club! Here are a few pictures from the event.
This is Miss Kitty, getting spiffed up for the big party. As you might expect, she’s totally into the series. Especially Bite Marks!
This gives you a nice idea of what the store looks like. Super cool establishment with a wide selection of books, games, kits, and a nice coffee shop/cafe.
Here I am, trying to think of something witty to say. Maybe if I scrunch up my face just so?
Hubby just had to include this among his shots. He said he could see me planting something in that open maw. And I do think it would be kinda funny to see some red Wave Petunias creeping over those bottom teeth like a tongue feeling for the last bit of gravy!
I also managed to get myself registered for Twitter this weekend. So if any of you are into tweeting, you can follow me here.
Two more signings to go, so if we haven’t had a chance to meet, let’s get together, okay? Here are the details for my Evansville, Indiana trip next Saturday. (I was born in Evansville, so I’m looking forward to getting back to my original hometown!)
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Barnes and Noble Store 2692
Street: 624 South Green River Road
City/Town: Evansville, IN 47715
Phone: 812-475-1054
Website: Evansville Barnes and Noble
So what’s the most unexpected item (or person) you’ve ever come across in a bookstore?
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November 9th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Kitty! She looks just like my cat Nikki, only Nikki has a small white spot on her right shoulder. And I’m pretty sure that from that picture my cat has a good five pounds on her too.
I’ve never seen anything that I wouldn’t expect to see in a bookstore near me. Which kinda makes me sad, because that either means the bookstores around me are pretty boring and uncreative or I’m just not very observant. And I think I’m pretty observant, so it must just be the ones near me.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the Twilight movie or at least the previews, but the Frankenstein head totally made me think of this Twilight spoof from SNL. It is sooo funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfIubuTjT1g
November 9th, 2009 at 10:34 am
It’s yoga-kitty!
Well… some of the kits in B&N can be rather strange. O.o;;;
November 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I have to agree with Amber, nothing very interesting has ever happened in a bookstore for me, other than getting strange looks for either taking pictures of book covers on my phone (to see if a friend had it) or for smiling like an eejit at the new simons cat book!
(which by the way if you haven’t seen, you should look up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat?blend=1&ob=4
the cutest thing ever!)
November 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Woah that sandwich looks good !
Um i was very surprised to see they now sell dvds in a book store, i was like wtf dude ?
I mean it’s a BOOK store. And also i cant seam to find a copy of Bite Marks in any bookshop, i would order it from Amazon but the post is being weird !?
November 9th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Okay i’m going to just order it from Amazon, i’m gonna do it ! Wish me luck… !!!!!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
While not weird per se, it was definitely up there in the ‘Oh man, I so should have bought it’ category – Shakespeare’s The Tempest… in Klingon… in the book section of my local Target store about 15 years ago.
I have been regretting that lack of that purchase ever since. Oh, the nerd points I could have racked up with that!
November 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
No, Jennifer, come to Savannah! Savannah loves you!
And the most unexpected thing I’ve seen in a bookstore? A nun (prior, she’d left her habit behind to forge a new path for herself) looking through the Kama Sutra.
I’m still not sure I’m over it.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I have never seen anything out of the ordinary in a bookstore but I do remember as a kid I used to live in a small community so we didnt have a proper library just a mobile one (an rv full of book shelves) that would visit once a fortnight. The guy that drove it had this huge slobbery beast of a dog that used to sleep right in the middle of the book shelves. I was always too scared to walk passed it to get to the kids section so I used to borrow books from the adult sections. So while all my friends were reading fairy tales I was reading romance novels and murder mysteries.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
That was a really unique bookstore! I liked all the old tin lunchboxes,and the original Rock’em Sock’em Robots. That was also the only book store I’ve ever been to that had a store pet. It was really great to meet you!
November 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Okay, so as soon as I read your question I honestly thought, a purple potato. I briefly worked in a Barnes&Noble and a girl brought one for lunch. I’d never seen one before and thought it was the neatest food ever. So, the most unexpected thing I’ve found in a bookstore is a purple potato.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I ADDED YOU
im goth_vader
and OMG want that franken…thing
November 10th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Cute place, it looks quite friendly and kinda homey. Oh, and I love that little green monster with sprouting eyes in the second pic!!
I see you wore black, how did it go?
Unexpected… well, I could say it’s unexpected – but very appreciated
– when I find a bookstore that has a cafe in it. My local bookstores don’t have one, so I like it when I find a bookstore that does.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Thanks for sharing, Amber. That was hilarious!
She was actually in a much more compromising position just before I took the picture, zanheltangia!
I’ve never thought of taking pictures of book covers, Sophie. And, yeah, that trailer’s adorable!
I’m sorry to hear that, Beccy. Good luck with Amazon, but if you don’t want to go that route, maybe you could get your bookshop to order it for you. I know the stores around here are usually eager to help out that way.
Ha! That’s like a “classic” classic, Gillian!
LMAO, Marissa! I think I’d have had to find somewhere to sit down after witnessing that one! (And, naturally, I have to say that Savannah rocks!)
That totally would’ve been my choice too, Amanda! And I have probably seen that very RV. It is now stuck beside a seedy cafe with two flat tires and only opens once a month. Gar!
I thought it was way cool too, Miranda! And it was a real pleasure to meet you too! I have a few pictures of you and Seleigh that I’ll try to e-mail you today if I can figure out the technology.
LOL, Total Fan Girl! That’s one answer I would never have predicted! Love it!
Good deal, Lauren! Expect much silliness. It’s how I roll! (Yeah, I want it too. I was a little pissed that my hubby didn’t attempt to buy it. But then I realized it’s probably not for sale. Bummer.)
Thanks, Vale! The monster is one of my signs to help explain to newbies what my books are about, because I do get some WTF looks as people study the covers and try to figure out the content! Yup, the black worked so well I may actually go with more of it next week. We’ll see!
November 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
A bookshop in Dunedin (New Zealand) years ago had a model of a giant turtle suspeneded from the roof over the sci fi/fantasy section, one o week somebody hung a stuffed orangatan from it
and yes it was a model of the one named after Terry Pratchett 
November 11th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Aw, Penny, that is a marvelous image!