I headed down to Cottage Grove today to teach a writing workshop to some high school students and talk with them about puppetry. Lokiko Hall, their teacher, had talked to me about arranging this when the Wordos group hosted me in Eugene.
Because she’s kind of fantastic, she also arranged for a booksigning and reading event at The Book Mine. What a lovely store! It’s a combination book and flower store and has a charming interior. Gail, the proprietress, met me at the door with a corsage. I wish everyone did this. It makes a girl feel quite special to be plied with flowers.
Gail also made tiny cucumber sandwiches and had strawberries, chocolates and meringue. We had a tiny mix-up in that the copies of Shades of Milk and Honey they’d ordered hadn’t arrived yet. Whoops! Fortunately, since I’d developed the habit of keeping an envelope of bookplates in my bag, I signed those and folks prepaid for books.
Oh! And there was a copy of The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the shelves which one of the audience members picked up just because of the title, then realized I was in the anthology so purchased it.
Lokiko was lovely throughout and guided me from point to point. It was a long but very pleasant day.
