Do You Need the Cheese and Grapes?

By Charlotte Wilkins

And what is a Pre-Publication Party? How do you do a reading/signing event if the book’s publication date is ten days away? (With lots of finagling behind the scenes, I learned—with extended family in town, the author’s publisher called the warehouse to have boxes sent.)

Curiosity took me to this author event, at a newly opened indie bookstore in town. I wanted to support their effort to highlight writers and meet the author, but also introduce myself to the store o...