- kinda decent swag bag, including the new P&Ws/the writer magazine issues, cookies, free jodi's popcorn, and 2 tickets to the norfolk botanical garden and the chrysler museum of art.
- meeting a fan from my reading last night
- getting a tasty veggie wrap
- meeting jill mccorkle *
- meeting katherine sands**
- catching up with former barnes and nobles employees
not-so-highlights
- false fire alarms that made judi mccoy pretty angry
- pitch session not quite going as i planned***
*jill mccorkle is one of those people you just want to hang around with on a front porch swing on a summer day sipping ice tea and bourbon. calm, graceful, modest. it was a pleasure stalking her down and making her sign my book. i told her that i really loved her new book (okay i just read halfway through at that point but it's really amazing) and that i've also been reading her colleague john kessel's short stories "the baum plan for independence." i was looking forward to applying to ncstate for fall 2011, where they are both faculty. yes of course it's brown nosing and i look like a fan girl. but she looked at my name tag and said she'd keep a look out for my name. yessssssssss.**katherine sands is one of these people who know their shit and got it straight. she seems to be one of those relentlessly accountable people with confidence and swagger and is just generally cool as hell. because i just saw this movie, i'll compare her to the character of chris chambers from the movie "stand by me":
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| what's your pitch, sucka? |
*** now, sadly, i don't feel like this was my shining moment. this is not katherine's fault in any way, but i definitely felt like i missed the pitch. i know my idea has all of the components she talked about in her panel, but being in front if her and explaining it all...well, it just didn't gel. she did invite me to send her my query, so i plan doing that as i feel comfortable with it. which will be veeeeeerrrry soon.
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