Okay, so I'm a geek! Authors are rockstars!!
This past week, we trekked to Kansas City to hear a panel of mystery authors talk about their work. First off, I openly admit that I don't read near as many books written for adults as I should. (I generally choose to read books for kids and teens.) However, I have been to enough author presentations that I can enjoy hearing authors talk about their writing without having read their work.
Before we hit the program, we checked out the swanky shops at Legends and on the Plaza. Our purchases included bras and a birthday card! Hence, my profile picture. Find a bookstore and we are good. We might get crazy and get a slushie or a pretzel once in a while (These are the same girls who have walked up and down Chicgo's Michigan avenue and the only stores the visited were the Lego store and Walgreeen's.)
The panel of authors included John Connolly, William Kent Krueger, MJ Rose, and Liza Marklund. Again, I hadn't read their work, but knew of Connolly and Krueger's work and popularity at the Library. Wow, what an evening. It is as cool to hear authors excited about their writing as it is to hear people excited about their reading.
Krueger was talking about the future of the tradtional book in an e-book world. I wish I could remember his quote, which went something like..."this [referring to a hardcover book], you can touch it, you can smell it, you can hear it whisper to you when you turn the pages." And, to a Kansas girl, any man with an accent is attractive. Connolly, with his Irish brogue had the audience (and me) memerized with every word.
The bus tour was created to give support to independent bookstores. The Kansas City stop was the second to last stop on the 12 city tour. The the foursome had been traveling together for eight days and were a bit punchy be the time they made their KC stop.
I don't expect I will forget this night of author greatness any time soon.
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