This afternoon I had the great pleasure of visiting the Rockrimmon Book Club at the Rockrimmon Library Branch of the Pikes Peak Library District to discuss my book, A REAL BASKET CASE, which was their reading selection for this month. Boy, do they know how to make an author feel welcome! They had a cookies and lemonade snack table with tablecloth and paper goods that matched the colors of my book cover: pink, green, and yellow. And they'd already set up a signing table with my books on display. One of the members had driven around town to purchase gift certificates for establishments mentioned in my book--including the Broadmoor! --then bundled them with some yummy Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory chocolates in a cute heart-motif gift basket. Their attention to detail was such that they even had two bottles of water waiting for me, one iced and one at room temperature, so I had my choice.
After a very short introductory talk by me, I opened the floor for questions, because I knew this group would have some great questions. The fifteen or so ladies kept me hopping for over an hour answering their wide-ranging questions from how I define my characters, to the process of getting an agent, to what an editor does, to how I plot, to which mystery authors I read, and even whether Leon appears in the sequel, TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET (he does). The time just flew, and I really enjoyed myself. Thank you, Rockrimmon Book Club!
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