tour dispatch #3: you gotta have friends

So, where were we?

Aha, Oakland.

I walked into A Great Good Place for Books and immediately felt at home. There were cookies. And Kathleen, the owner, yelled at me: "I can't believe you didn't win the Printz." Then she went on to tell me that she LOVED the book, foisted it on everyone and that her small store had sold like 140 copies of If I Stay in hardback. Well then, nice to meet you, too.

With my new speakers hooked up, I was ready to go. Then in came Nina LaCour, author of the amazing Hold...