The reading
Mar. 23rd, 2005 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrAs you know, I was nervous about it, worried that it wouldn't be well attended because of that little mix up with the publicity. Worried that because of the computer problems I'd had less time to prepare than I'd counted on--the scene I read wasn't even finished. My fears turned out to be pretty groundless. In fact, I ended up feeling sort of like a rock star.
Many of my friends were there. By happy coincidence, even![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kijjohnson was able to make it, up on a quick trip from Kansas. Bob Olsen, ice palace consultant, was there in the audience, too, and many LiveJournal friend, too, including some I've been corresponding with for a while but had not yet met. scott_lynch astonished me, right after I walked in, by presenting me with a lovely white rose and a good luck card from him and Jenny. He had to leave right away for a firefighting class and couldn't stay (and really, I think "I have to leave right now to learn how to rescue people from burning buildings" ranks right up there as an ironclad no-guilt-necessary reason for skipping a reading, don't you?) I was so touched that he had driven out all that way to give it to me. I met cloudscudding for the first time, I think, and porphyrin. minnehaha B and K were there, and sraun, and kaustin and laurel and huladavid and was that careswen? And I'm sure I'm missing others. Speak up if you were there! [Edited to add: also dlandon, davidschroth, magentamn, dsgood. . . ] The seats were full to overflowing--the bookstore actually ran out of chairs. I read the opening of the book, and the incomplete ice fishing scene on Lake Nokomis, and bits of other fragments throughout the book. The audience made appreciative noises and asked lovely questions. When it was all over, minnehaha K. surprised me with a bouquet of flowers (pink, in honor of my pink garden, to tide me over until spring really arrives) along with a nice surprise in a card, from some people who had put their heads together for me on LiveJournal. Really, people, you spoil me.
I didn't join the large gathering at Dulono's afterwards, although I regretted missing it. I needed to speak privately with Kij afterwards. Next time, okay?
You may be amused to know that I found a sure-fire way to keep the vases from tipping over since I couldn't hold them while driving home.
Atporphyrin's suggestion, I buckled them into the kids' booster seats.
Many of my friends were there. By happy coincidence, even
kijjohnson was able to make it, up on a quick trip from Kansas. Bob Olsen, ice palace consultant, was there in the audience, too, and many LiveJournal friend, too, including some I've been corresponding with for a while but had not yet met. scott_lynch astonished me, right after I walked in, by presenting me with a lovely white rose and a good luck card from him and Jenny. He had to leave right away for a firefighting class and couldn't stay (and really, I think "I have to leave right now to learn how to rescue people from burning buildings" ranks right up there as an ironclad no-guilt-necessary reason for skipping a reading, don't you?) I was so touched that he had driven out all that way to give it to me. I met cloudscudding for the first time, I think, and porphyrin. minnehaha B and K were there, and sraun, and kaustin and laurel and huladavid and was that careswen? And I'm sure I'm missing others. Speak up if you were there! [Edited to add: also dlandon, davidschroth, magentamn, dsgood. . . ] The seats were full to overflowing--the bookstore actually ran out of chairs. I read the opening of the book, and the incomplete ice fishing scene on Lake Nokomis, and bits of other fragments throughout the book. The audience made appreciative noises and asked lovely questions. When it was all over, minnehaha K. surprised me with a bouquet of flowers (pink, in honor of my pink garden, to tide me over until spring really arrives) along with a nice surprise in a card, from some people who had put their heads together for me on LiveJournal. Really, people, you spoil me.I didn't join the large gathering at Dulono's afterwards, although I regretted missing it. I needed to speak privately with Kij afterwards. Next time, okay?
You may be amused to know that I found a sure-fire way to keep the vases from tipping over since I couldn't hold them while driving home.
At
porphyrin's suggestion, I buckled them into the kids' booster seats.