As I mentioned Wednesday, I went to the LA Times Festival of
Books this last Saturday. It was cloudy
and threatened rain all day, although it didn’t rain as much as they predicted
it might. It poured for about 10 minutes
at one point, and sprinkled a little off and on, but nothing much worse than
that.
The day started out with a pleasant surprise when I found an
author I thought was going to be there on Sunday only was there. Fortunately, I put his books in my car just
in case, so I dashed to my car (literally) and back, bought his new book, and
got all three signed all within 15 minutes.
All that was before Angelique showed up, too.
The rest of the day was spent wandering around with her and
talking to mystery authors. We pretty
much spent the time hanging out in the mystery section chatting. While the festival isn’t nearly as great as
it used to be, it is still fun and a great chance to find out what our favorite
authors are up to.
The rain definitely kept the crowds down, although it was a
nice change to not be roasting, which is usually the case. I kept some plastic grocery bags in my
backpack and wrapped books in those. Then
my backpack was under my jacket. It made
it hard to get in and out of my backpack, but my books were all dry.
I left late afternoon instead of staying until the event
ended so I could hit another book signing.
The author I really wanted to catch was only at the festival on Sunday,
and I couldn’t make it back that day.
There were a total of three authors there and lots of kids, since they
are kids book authors. It was a fun
event.
It made for a long day, but it was a great day.
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