Some interesting conversations can happen over dinner.

Some interesting conversations can happen over dinner.

It still surprises me how the word “author” can change a conversation.

I was over at  restaurant recently and I happened to have my book along with me. The Venezuelan waitress, whom my dinner partner knew, was serving us heard our conversation. She was more than beside herself when she heard that an author was in her midst and even more beside herself when that author had the book with him. After serving us, she collected some tips and came back to buy the book

I signed it for her and she told me and my dinner partner how excited she was because she was flying to Venezuela and was looking for a book. My dinner partner did the obligatory warning about the sex and violence in the book, and she didn’t mind. (She actually had a “bring it on” kind of attitude.

It was a special moment. I was happy, my dinner partner was happy. It was one of the first person who we weren’t friends with that we got to see so enthusiastic.

Just goes to show that, despite all of this social media and online stuff out there, a good meal and pleasant conversation about a book lead to something special.

 

 

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