I find other people posting about all the things they got annoying and obnoxious so of course I’ve done one myself … because when you confess your own hypocrisy it stinks just a little bit less.
I could wait until all of my books come home to me … I mailed some to myself because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to transport them all. These fears may have been unnecessary and since I didn’t pay for the tracking information there’s no way of knowing if those five media mail envelopes will ever arrive. But they were the less important books to me and I felt that losing them wouldn’t be a great loss. Shall we begin? I may also talk about books I purchased on my trip…do people do haul posts on purchases? Of course they do. Exhibitionist shoppers. My goodness I’m becoming some capitalist stooge. Continue reading “BEA 2013 Haul post”
I’m about to reveal a secret about attending the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC that I found useful and sadly will probably forget next year. But this is something I learned the hard way, by being late to the first author panel I wanted to see which included Tim Federle and Stephan Pastis. (Apologies to Ellis Weiner, who was also on the panel but whose presence doesn’t add to my narrative)