Richelle Mead's Blog, page 39

Empty nest

Well, I apologize for leaving you hanging about what happened to me after New York. I did indeed make it home to Seattle--my flight even got in an hour early! Now, for my first post since getting home, I was going to write a very poignant examination of life on tour and what goes into it. But then, something of great urgency came up:

My neighbors.

Yes, that's right. Just before leaving New York, I got a text from my husband saying: "There's activity at the KGB house." I would have alerted you ...

Island in the stream

Tonight wrapped up my mini fan tour, and wow, what a high note it was. I ventured outside of New York City and into the depths of Long Island, to a Borders in Westbury. I can't even begin to say what a wonderful event it was. The crowd was great, and the store's staff did an amazing job running everything. Thank you, one and all.

I'm pretty tired, so my commentary will be brief on these pics. Heather Osborn (from the Forks adventure) came along and live-Tweeted the event, so if you're on Twitt...

I'll take Manhattan

After a brief moment of warmth in Miami, I flew up to the chilly (yet sunny) land of New York today. It was a rough morning. I'd gotten very little sleep and then had a slight delay in getting to the airport, so I was kind of run ragged by the time I boarded the plane. I was able to make up sleep on the flight and had nearly improved my mood until I had to wait an hour for my luggage at LaGuardia. That was not cool. Of course, in a world where we should look for silver linings, I should be g...

I don't know any catchy Miami sayings to use for a title

I do, however, know that Miami is a heck of a lot warmer than New Orleans or my hometown of Seattle (and New York, where I'll be tomorrow). Miami is also chock-full of the humidity I grew up with in Michigan summers, which is eerily comforting. And weird, since it's January.

Tonight found me at one my most remarkable signing locations ever. A church.





If that's not enough proof, check out the congregation here.





I'm honored and grateful that Coral Gables Congregational Church allowed my signing to...

Big and easy fun

I realize that's not the most original blog title, but it was either that or an obscure quote from Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. So. Yeah.

Day 2 in New Orleans found me spending the afternoon in my hotel room, reading proofs of Spirit Bound and resisting the urge to steal the adorable baby-sized maple syrup bottles off the table at breakfast. (I resisted, though. You just don't do that. Not in public). Meanwhile, the entire city was bracing itself for the big Saints game, so much...

"I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done."

Tonight I'm writing to you from beautiful New Orleans, aka The Big Easy. Today's one of those days where you can't figure out where the time went. My total air travel wasn't *that* long, but when you add in time changes, layovers, luggage retrieval, and getting to/from airports...well, there you are. One minute you're dragging yourself out of bed at 7am in Seattle...the next thing you know, it's midnight in a seedy New Orleans hotel room. Okay--that last part's not true because Penguin tota...

Recovery day

Well, after falling behind in work this sick week, I'm up and at 'em. My symptoms stopped after a few days, and I felt great yesterday...for a little while. Then, I got a whole new set of stomach pains. I have since learned from my doctor that the nausea and headaches were some variant of stomach flu (and that maybe I was already sick going into Avatar). I got sick again yesterday because I felt so good that I just started eating like crazy--and not eating smart things. She said a lot of peo...

Sick day

I saw Avatar on Sunday, and many people have heard me talking about how its crazy jungle-swinging, dragon-flying 3D IMAX action gave me motion sickness in the theatre. Well, after enduring the same type of nausea and headache for the last two days, I'm thinking that Avatar might not be to blame. It seems I may have actually caught a flu or stomach bug of sorts and simply went into the movie already sick. As someone who rarely catches anything (read previous arrogant posts about my refusal to ...

Important update about the Miami signing...and my neighbors

Before you get excited, let me state right out that the two subjects in the title of this are unrelated. My KGB neighbors are not coming to my Miami signing this Sunday.

However, the Miami signing this Sunday is at 7pm, NOT 5pm. There was an error in the schedule, and I apologize profusely for any inconvience this causes. If you live in Miami and were planning on going, pass the news onto your friends! The full (and corrected) schedule with times and places is up on my calendar page.

Meanwhile...

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hey, guys! I hope you've been having a great weekend. Mine's been work and play, which is always nice. I received Succubus Shadows ARCs in the mail and discovered I'm 20,000 words into VA #6 (which is currently untitled). Not bad.

I also wanted to note that I shut comments off of the last few posts because people were getting a little snippy at each other, and I hate to see discord around here! We're all pals, right? Also: the long posts analyzing the books were really great and interesting...