Day Three (?) I Screw Up A Booksigning
I know, I didn’t post yesterday but Krissie did on D&G so it’s all there. And I forgot to threaten anybody with death tonight so there’s probably no new post on D&G. But the high points are, we did the podcast last night, and it was tremendous fun (here’s Lani)–
–and then we had to go to B&N today so I scooped up some pens on the way out the door. When we got there, somebody gave me UMF to sign, and I signed it in blue ink and passed on the pen to Krissie and she wrote, “Ditto,” underneath what I’d written and signed her name. And kept my blue pen.
So I picked up the next blue pen I had and signed the book and passed it to Krissie who signed it with the other blue pen: “Ditto, Anne Stuart.” But my blue pen was lousy so I traded it out and kept signing. About an hour later, Krissie says, “Why were you signing with a sewing pen?” and I looked and the second blue pen was a sewing marker, the kind where you make the marks on the cloth and then it disappears twenty-four hours later.
So somewhere in the Cincinnati area is a woman with a copy of UMF that tomorrow afternoon will read only, “Ditto, Anne Stuart.” We are really, really sorry. (I blame Krissie.)
Oh and we talked out D&G this morning and then again at lunch, but as Lani said, “Look, we have to WRITE something,” so tomorrow morning, we’re writing. In real pen. Argh.
But we’re having a really good time.
Glad you’re having a great time! And I must say, very “National Treasure” of you with the conspiratory ink-dissapearing act.
Disappearing ink - sorry for the woman, but that is too funny! Maybe the ink won’t act the same on paper as it does on fabric?
I love that story. It’s so Crusie-esque. Surely you can make use of it.
That’s too funny! Is that Lucy on the footstool? Because it looks like Lucy with Milton’s head.
That is too funny! The poor woman will get home and scratch her head and think she hallucinated about you even being at the signing.
Loved the podcast. You guys sounded great and seemed to be having a good time. Lani did a great job of keeping everyone on topic and I enjoyed the honest answers to the questions on collaborating.
That has to be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while. I feel like I shouldn’t laugh because, well, that poor woman! But it does amuse me so.
For a while, people were writing checks with the disappearing ink. But that poor woman. How disappointing.
Loved the podcast. Just one thing: how did you all get so giggly when only one of you was actually imbibing?
Loved the podcast!
You know, the introductory voice, “Wanda”, sounds a lot like you, Jenny - lol - so does the public service announcement voice
We laugh a lot when we’re together. Just a natural high.
Lani’s hysterical. Better to have fun while writing than pull your hair out. I’ve done both!
Teri
And someday you’ll be at another signing and this woman will come up to you with a copy of UMF signed only by Krissie …
Lol, McB. But still that is why I say reality is always much funnier than fiction.
Thanks for the chuckle, but I agree with the others — that poor woman when she goes to look at the book for your autograph. Maybe she will write you a letter, Jenny, and somehow you can make it up to her.
I sent a check once, signed in disappearing pen. They were surprisingly polite about it, but I think it was because I talked to a woman that sewed on the phone to apologize.