Jane, Actually reading at Tattered Cover a success

The real reason to do a reading/book signing at the Tattered Cover is to get some swag. My friend Leslie Jorgensen gave me the Pride and Poetry magnetic poetry kit and fellow Wodehousean Janette Keene Taylor gave me the Penguin Pride and Prejudice coffee mug and the Tattered Cover gave me the much-too-nice-to-ever-use metal bookmark with my name and the date engraved on the backside. It will go in my document case when I get around to finishing that.

Of course I also did have a great time at the book reading and wasn’t too nervous; far less nervous than an aikido test or a colonoscopy, for instance. I appreciate the support and the familiar faces. I learned I really need to create a stock signature because I can’t be creative all the time, that I need to buy a better pen, that I am best when speaking extemporaneously, that I tend to forget important details when speaking extemporaneously and that I have a really gigantic head.

And I can’t say enough good about the Tattered Cover and Charles Stillwagon and Annita Spiker and Heather Duncan and Miki Atencio and Jackie Blem.

I am, of course, looking forward to my next reading at the BookBar. I hope if you weren’t able to come to the Tattered Cover, you can meet me for wine and books on Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

P.S. I also learned from Charles that the Denver Public Library ordered seven copies of Jane, Actually, which should make it a lot easier to convince a book club to read it.