Book Signing

Today was a blast for nerdy me as I got to meet one of my favorite authors, Laurell K. Hamilton. She was so personable and friendly and easy to talk to. She, her husband, and I spent a minute or two admiring each other's jewelry -- he was wearing amber, she was wearing tourmilated quartz, and I was wearing amber and moonstone. She also happily accomodated me by signing three books, all of them personalized to different people. I think she would have done it even if I hadn't told her why I wanted three different personalizations -- my aunt, my friend Naomi, and I all discovered her at the same time and spent months swapping books and hypothesizing and ruminating and fussing about this character and adoring that character. She personalized Chrys's and Nay's with "Merry Christmas" since they will be gifts, then she personalized mine with "Good luck with the wildlife, conservation is our only hope" after we talked biology for a bit (she wanted to be a wildlife biologist before making her first sell as a writer).

What a great afternoon!