More Book Signings!

Wow! I never realized it would be so difficult to find the time to keep up with a blog.

Since my last posting I have been working on the second book in the series, shooting to have it to my illustrator, Ruth Palmer, so she can start working on the illustrations as well as spending the weekends at book signing events, and working on the website!

Let’s move on, by looking back at the past few weekends. The last weekend in April, we were at the Warrenton Wine Festival in Warrenton, Virginia. I know that that was not what the website schedule had slated; and that’s another thing proving difficult to keep up with! Please check in a few days and the schedule will be up to date and take you through the rest of the spring and into the summer events that we are planning.

Back to the Warrenton Wine Fest; that was a great deal of fun! Pat Daly, the owner of Books and Crannies, clever name by the way, put together a schedule for a variety of local authors to attend and sign their books. I was there both afternoons of the two day event, met a lot of nice folks from the area, and signed quite a few books. Several local wineries were present, there was live music, food and other artists and vendors, and it was a good time had by all.

Other authors included Marc Leepson, who was promoting his new book, Desperate Engagement. Ellen Crosby, the freelance reporter for the Washington Post, was there with her series of murder mysteries set in the Virginia Wine Country. Her latest effort is The Riesling Retribution. Susan McCorkindale was also there, promoting her new book, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, which she describes as Sex in the City meets Green Acres. You just have to read that!

It was a pleasure meeting all of them, and I sincerely appreciate Pat working me into the schedule at such a late notice.

This past weekend we were at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds outside of Annapolis, Maryland. This was the Great Grapes Wine, Arts and Food Festival, and again, that was not what the schedule said, but we are changing our updating procedure at this very moment. The GGWAFF had a lot of promise, but the weather did not cooperate on Sunday and we had to pack up our tent and run for it, and I mean that literally.

We will give it another shot the weekend of June 13th and 14th when we set-up at the GGWAFF at Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeysville, MD. However, we have other events scheduled before that, so check out the events tab and see where and when Blackbear the Pirate makes his next appearance. I hope to see you there! Happy Cinco de Mayo!!