Spring Hatching

I just found out that Karen (K.C. Dyer) is going to be my table partner at the CWILL Spring Hatching, next weekend.  Yay!  That will be fun.  Now I’ll have somebody cozy to chat with when there is a lull.  I wonder if she’s going to want to do something special with our table.  I was just planning to bring a stack of books and a pen.  She has a fancy sign that unrolls and has a stand and it looks very eye-catching.  But I’m not very good at presentational stuff.  I’ve heard that the authors and illustrators go all out with decorations, and I am going early to help Kathy Shoemaker ( a very talented illustrator, and a nice lady to boot) decorate.  But I can do that kind of thing, where someone else has the artistic vision and they just point me in a direction with a stapler or a hunk of flowers or a stack of chairs and tells me what to do.  But to envision how to make it look festive and come together, not my strong suit. 

I could decorate our table like a birthday party, with streamers and balloons, but neither one of us has a Birthday Book coming out.  As a matter of fact, we both write for Young Adult, so a celebratory birthday theme might scare away the very people we want to attract.  However, if we did do a party theme, then I’d have an excuse to have a nice stash of candy for us to nibble on, to pass the day.

Hmm…maybe I better stick with my stack of books, post-it notes and a pen plan. 

Anyway, Karen and I are scheduled to go for a walk tomorrow, the weather permitting, because it has been raining here like it thinks it’s Fall.  And if we do brave the weather, I’m sure we’ll figure out something good. 

And if you do come to our Spring Hatching, even if our table is boring, we are not, and there will be plenty of fanciful tables for you to admire.

This weekend I’m going to be away.  Doing a reading and puttering around at a place where I don’t have Internet.  So, I’ll blog tomorrow, but probably not again until Sunday night or Monday morning. 

Have a great weekend everybody!

Posted by Meg Tilly on Thursday, June 05, 2008 in Chewing the Fat