Strawberry Hill Chapters/Indigo

I’m just back from kicking off the Surrey International Writers Conference with a group reading and again, they gifted us with swag.  Now, you know how last year they got me addicted to Godiva dark chocolate mint pearls.  Well, in my swag-bag there was a suspicious rattling sound, so I was very excited, that I was going to be getting some of those candies again.

BUT NO!  Instead, there were dark chocolate pearls and some chocolate enrobed almonds.  Now, almond bark is one of my downfalls.  And when I have no candy in the house, I have been known to melt down chocolate chips, or chunk chocolate and stir it up with a few fistfuls of almonds that I have toasted in the oven.  But now… What if these chocolate almonds are as addictive as those costly chocolate mint pearls?

I will be well and truly sc____d. 

Anyway, the reading went well.  It’s always fun to do a group reading because the responsibility for the evening going well, doesn’t rest on me.  I do my bit, listen to others, sip my water and try to look intelligent.  Simple.

Leslie, as always was lovely.  And the store is involved in this literacy program and so she had me sign a couple of my books that they were donating to a local school.  Very sweet.

And Leslie offered to have Don and I do a joint signing when Don’s book comes out this spring, which was very thoughtful of her.  And I know I said I was not going to do any public appearances after I finish all the readings in November until next Fall.  However, helping get the word out about my husband’s fabulous book, trumps any such promise.  And if Strawberry Hill wants us… count me in. 

Oh… and for those that want to know.  I wore a lovely long-sleeved drapey sweater thing that Jenny gave me, with silvery sparkly bits going down the border of one side and interesting colorful beading intersperse with the glittery bits on the other, and the sweater material was very light, almost sheer (I wore a sleeveless shirt… that Jenny also gave me underneath.)  And I felt like a right proper author.  In that fancy sweater-thing, I felt like an event!

Posted by Meg Tilly on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in Chewing the Fat