Killer Cocktails in Duluth - MLA 2011
So last week I attended (as an author) the Killer Cocktails event put on by the Twin Cities Sisters in Crime organization, hosted by Fitgers Bookstore in Duluth. It was for the attendees of the Minnesota Library Association’s annual conference to introduce us to the librarians who came to the shindig.
First, mucho thanks to the Sisters in Crime folks, since I’m not an official member, yet, and don’t have a lot of mystery/crime fiction out there. But they were gracious enough to let me participate.
Second, my apologies to all who attended since...well, I was nervous, and had been doing some running around before the event, and I was a sweaty pig. It was friggin’ embarrassing. The more I thought about it, the worse it got, and...well, it wasn’t a pretty picture.
See, here’s a picture taken at the event. That’s me sitting next to the wonderful Monica Ferris. And no, that big dark stain is not a shadow. Dear God, I was pathetic. I’d seen Monica at a few other events, and she always wears a fancy hat, so I asked her if there was a story behind that, and she said how she wore one at some event and it turned out to be a great conversation piece. She said how it would be wonderful if someday someone would ask for a book by ‘the lady with the fancy hats’, and then the bookseller or librarian would say, “Oh, you mean Monica Ferris.” See, I’m afraid that someday someone would ask a bookseller/librarian, “Do you have any books by that sweaty guy?” “Oh, you mean Joel Arnold?” “Yeah, yeah – the sweaty guy.”
But so anyway, other than that, I had a nice time. The event was very well organized and I met some great librarians and fellow writers. The writers went around to each table of librarians and we introduced ourselves, did a little spiel about our books, gave out cards, answered questions, etc. Before that, I sat at a table with a number of women who were prison librarians, and when they found out I wrote horror, they told me how some of the prisons they worked at would make great horror novel settings. Probably so!
First, mucho thanks to the Sisters in Crime folks, since I’m not an official member, yet, and don’t have a lot of mystery/crime fiction out there. But they were gracious enough to let me participate.
Second, my apologies to all who attended since...well, I was nervous, and had been doing some running around before the event, and I was a sweaty pig. It was friggin’ embarrassing. The more I thought about it, the worse it got, and...well, it wasn’t a pretty picture.
See, here’s a picture taken at the event. That’s me sitting next to the wonderful Monica Ferris. And no, that big dark stain is not a shadow. Dear God, I was pathetic. I’d seen Monica at a few other events, and she always wears a fancy hat, so I asked her if there was a story behind that, and she said how she wore one at some event and it turned out to be a great conversation piece. She said how it would be wonderful if someday someone would ask for a book by ‘the lady with the fancy hats’, and then the bookseller or librarian would say, “Oh, you mean Monica Ferris.” See, I’m afraid that someday someone would ask a bookseller/librarian, “Do you have any books by that sweaty guy?” “Oh, you mean Joel Arnold?” “Yeah, yeah – the sweaty guy.”
But so anyway, other than that, I had a nice time. The event was very well organized and I met some great librarians and fellow writers. The writers went around to each table of librarians and we introduced ourselves, did a little spiel about our books, gave out cards, answered questions, etc. Before that, I sat at a table with a number of women who were prison librarians, and when they found out I wrote horror, they told me how some of the prisons they worked at would make great horror novel settings. Probably so!
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