First Book Signing
My first book signing is next week! On Halloween, appropriately enough. For those of you who live withing hailing distance of Los Angeles, it is at Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont. The full address is 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90004 and the phone number is 323-465-1334. I’ll be there from 11am until 1pm, so please come — I have visions of myself sitting all alone with a stack of books!
And it won’t just be books — there will also be a big bowl of Parma Violets (Belladonna’s favourites)! Well, there will be if I don’t eat them all between now and Halloween…
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October 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
That’s lovely news. I hope you can post pix on some site that I can access, since your Myspace and Facebook are set to private. // I get what you mean about the candy—in the last 3 weeks I’ve bought 4-40 oz bags (10 lbs!!) and ate them all!! Tomorrow I’m buying some that isn’t chocolate.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Parma violets look a lot like smarties.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Only if you take them out of the packets! I usually leave them in the packets because it’s easier to monitor how many I eat. Each packet is 64 calories, which sounds great, until you realize that eating just one packet is just not possible. **sigh**
October 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Oh, hang on…you mean the American smarties, don’t you? In which case, yes they do, except that they taste of violets. They’re also gluten free and have no artificial colours or flavours, so the purple colour must come from actual violets.
Smarties in the UK are similar to M&Ms.
It’s all so complicated!
November 1st, 2009 at 12:14 am
Well? Don’t keep us in suspense—How did it go? Did 2,000 fans leave the place in disarray (shambles, actually) like Jordan/Katie Price’s fans did at the WHSmith store at Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, on the 25th? Probably not—I’m sure your fans are too genteel.
Apropos of nothing—I read on Friday at BBC-online, in an article about Britain in the 1950’s, that mums gave their kids a teaspoon of malt and cod-liver oil everyday before they went off to school. What was the why of that?
January 24th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Your book is sooo cool . I take it to school all the time. Is the start of the book set in Liverpool because the story about lady Mary is similar to a one at Speke Hall (haunted place)? Thank you.
January 31st, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Well done! Yes, it is. If you click on “Land of the Living” on the main page of the site, you’ll see a link to “Places”, which tells you where all the places that inspired me are located.
When I was at school we had a trip to Speke Hall nearly every year. Is it still like that? Dulworth’s school is also based on a real school in Liverpool – Belvedere (it used to be Belvedere School, but now I think it’s Belvedere Academy). For the main street in town I imagined Dale Street, but a bit smaller.
Do you live in Liverpool?