The Last Pre-Holiday Stewardess! Update

If you’re here because you read about my “near-professional literary site” in Pamela Paul’s NYTBR back-pager on blogs, welcome! Usually, I would be writing about other writers, including the ones that I’m reading, but because I’m also the author of the recently published The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!, lately I’ve been telling readers what’s new with that.

This weekend, for example, I was so thrilled to discover my book in the very front of the Union Square Barnes & Noble, on a table specifically designated for “Gifts for the Holidays” that I whipped out the cameraphone and took the photo at left. And this was right after I’d spent a delightful afternoon hanging out at Nat Sherman signing copies of the book for a few folks who dropped by. Early on I got to introduce Leora Skolkin-Smith, who’s written a guest essay for Beatrice, to Jessica Cutler and Lauren Cerand, then Dawn Raffel took a break from finishing her next book to drop in and say hello. Later, I snagged a few chairs in the walk-in humidor and unwound with Elizabeth Tippens and Vicky Oliver. And, yes, I did note that I had a signing in a cigar shop and the only folks who came by were women writers… (Well, there was one gentleman who came to see me, but he was in the company of another blogger.)

18 December 2005 | uncategorized |