Hi folks,
Well, I’ve had a few days
to recuperate from my two recent trips, the one to Boise and the last one to
Scottsdale, Arizona.
I love Arizona! Especially
when I get to see my best friend, Tom Rough, and our star writer and great
friend, Maegan Beaumont. Maegan was the reason I got to go to Scottsdale. Her
first novel, CARVED IN DARKNESS, has just been released and her official book
launch took place at the famous Poisoned Pen Bookstore. And, her husband Joe
flew me out there to surprise her and the others in our online class who were
going to be there, and that’s why I had to keep it secret where I was going.
Only problem is, it turns
out it’s impossible for Joe to keep a secret from Maegan! She got it out of him
fairly quickly, but we were all able to keep it a secret from our online
writing class members, many of whom made it to the bookstore for her talk and
signing. Among them were Mary Edelson who came all the way from Virginia and
Holly Love who flew in from Denver.
Maegan enjoyed a SRO crowd.
She shared the podium with two other writers, but she was clearly the star of
the show. In fact, when their talk was over, and the three writers sat down to
sign their books, her line was the entire length of the store. I felt kind of
sorry for the other two writers who had to sit there and watch her sign book
after book! I’ve been in that situation and it’s not fun!
Maegan looking... "goofy"...
We had a great visit! After
the signing, we went to a party hosted by Maegan’s best friend—who I kept
calling “Val” after the best friend of her protagonist in Carved, who, as it
turns out, was modeled after her real best friend whose name I forgot… Val is
what she’ll forever be known to me as. Really cool party. A bunch of Maegan’s
family came up from New Mexico and I got to meet her mom and dad. Also got to
meet Maegan and Joe’s kids, who were really cool kids. I especially was excited
to meet her daughter Jaime and Jaime was the first person to read my YA MIRROR,MIRROR
and gave it a rave review on Amazon.
The next day a bunch of us
hung out all day. First, we had lunch at the restaurant where the Arizona
writers in our online writing class meet once a month to cuss me out and then
we went to a resort hotel where Mary and Holly were staying and just hung out
by the pool and had… adult beverages. Just kicked back and bonded over… you
guessed it… adult beverages…
Stayed with my best bud,
Tom Rough
and his gorgeous wife Lisa and equally gorgeous daughter Nicola, and had a BALL!
I love Tom and his family. They’re coming to Indiana the first of the month for
Tom’s grandfather’s 99th birthday and I can’t wait to see them
again.
On my last day in town,
Mother’s Day, I went to lunch with Tom and his family and got to meet his
parents and it became clear why Tom is such a cool guy. Both his mom and dad
are just fantastic people and I’m so glad I got to meet and to know them.
And, then, finally, I
climbed aboard the red-eye back home and landed back in Ft. Wayne early Monday
morning.
We’ve got several members
of our writing group who’ve either just finished their novels or are about to
so I hope I can get to go again to each of their booksignings.
I’m glad to be back home—I really
missed my “eye-candy” Mary, but give me a week or two to rest up and I’ll be
raring to go again!
Blue skies,
Les
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4 comments:
It was the best time ever!! All my favorite people under one roof. :) I'm blessed beyond measure to have such wonderful friends and family!
You are a superstar, Maegan! I'm so proud to count you as a friend.
Wow - Sounds like an absolute blast! How neat that so many from Bootcamp were able to be there!Many congratulations, Maegan.
I bought this, and I've been sneaking it at work because I can't put it down.
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