Ficlets

Yesterday was the first day of my book tour, although it was probably the least exciting day (or at least I hope it will be), because it was spent almost entirely on traveling from Ohio, where I live, to Seattle, WA, where I’ll be making my first appearance and signing. The good news was that the travel was almost totally seamless – which is pretty much a first for me where connecting flights are concerned – and I also learned on the flight to Seattle that the Kate Winslet/Cameron Diaz move The Holiday actually works much better if, in fact, you see it as a silent movie. I’m not entirely sure the screenwriter will be pleased to hear that, but this is not my problem.

Along the way I stopped in the mini-Borders books in the Cincinnati airport and was pleased to find three copies of The Last Colony on the shelves. This is good for two reasons: One, it’s the first time I’ve seen the book in the wild, and two, given that airport book stores have relatively limited stock room, if your book manages to hit the shelves there, that’s a good thing. Naturally, I had to take a picture (which you see above), which then occasioned the manager of the bookstore to ask why I was taking pictures of the stock. I then mentioned I’d written the book, at which point they had me sign the books, and they put them out on the front display, because, you know. Autographed copies. So: For a short time only (hopefully), autographed copies on th B concourse of Cincinnati’s airport. If you’re passing through and need something to read, now you know where to go.

Seattle has been lovely so far; I arrived in the evening last night and had dinner with my writer friend Cherie Priest and her husband Aric, in which we blabbered on about writely subjects, because that’s what you do whenever two writers get together (poor Aric). As noted, tonight is the first event of the tour (for those of you in Seattle, it’ll be at the University Book Store at 7pm), so I’ll be sure to be blogging about that tomorrow. Tune in then.