This is Hank Phillipi Ryan. Some of you may know her as the multiple award-winning author of Prime Time, Face Time, Air Time & Drive Time. I met her (virtually) when she judged The Sandy writing contest a couple years ago. She's been encouraging me ever since. But I wasn't thinking about her Tuesday when my local bookstore called to say a man had ordered two books and wanted to have them signed before being shipped. I tried to figure out what man it might be. My brother? A friend?
But it wasn't a man at all. It was Hank!! And it was my first book signing. I admit, I felt a little weird signing a book for a writer who is seventy times more famous than I'll ever be. I also realized it's super hard for lefties to sign books, what with the binding in the way. But I signed, and even though the final product looked like a kindergartner wrote it, I hope she knows it came from the heart.
Thanks to all the folks who stopped by yesterday for cupcakes! Today, we're going to play a game called pick your power! In my book, the original five witchcraft families each held a different gift:
Shape-shifting
Future-telling
Vanishing
Mind Control
Teleportation
Which gift would you choose? Anyone who plays gets entered again for a copy of The Iron Bodkin.
Lastly, if you have a copy of The Iron Bodkin, and you'd like it signed, I have bookplates! Just send me a SASE and include the name of the person to whom you'd like the book addressed. I'll send you a signed bookplate to stick in the front of the book. You can find the address to send your SASE on my contact page.
Very cool, Amy! I can't wait to get my copies of The Iron Bodkin and your signed bookplates. :)
ReplyDeleteI would choose mind control! All the editors and agents out there would have to be ready for me at my next conference. (Laughs outloud in an evil way and rubs hands together...)
Great! The SASE goes in the post tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteTeleportation. I don't enjoy flying anymore and I feel very guilty about all the carbon emissions when I do, and since my family are all so far away and I love travelling, this would be ideal!
Sharon -- with mind control, your last name would be St. Clare. Also, you need to email me a list of who to address the plates to. :)
ReplyDeleteRebecca -- DON't send me an SASE. I already put your bookplate in the mail. With teleportation, your last name would be Ramsbottom.
Wow, that is beyond awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteIf I had to pick one of these, it would be shapeshifting. What are the limitations there?
Miriam, you're limited to turning into any living thing, so trees, coral, bugs, lions, whatever. And you would have been in the Rodgers family.
ReplyDeleteSo awesome about your first book signing! And I'll be getting an SASE in the mail for those bookplates!
ReplyDeleteI'd have to choose mind control - how cool would that be???
I've long loved the name Ramsbottom for a character---just not for myself. :) Very English!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the bookplate!
Susan, you and Sharon would be related in the St. Clare family. Mind-control is the skill the witch Hildilid gave the St. Clares back in the 1200's.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, I agree. :) Ramsbottom isn't the best name, although in my book the Ramsbottoms live in a gorgeous estate home and have tons of money.