All these weeks later, can I still find some snapshots to document I Was a Teenage Slasher winging it from NYC to San Diego? Let’s see, let’s see:
NYC
Launch-day was shooting video for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter at Simon & Schuster, but ALSO seeing Tolly and Ambs in the main display case at ground-level in that building that always makes me feel like I’m on a Conan remote—that he’s about to pedal past on a bicycle or something. And? Look, Ma! I’m on the wall on the top floor!
The Strand
This was standing-room-only, with Grady Hendrix:
Couple of people in the forever signing line, one (Rupa DasGupta) in the coolest-ever dress, one actually NAMED “Dinorah” (so? I spelled it wrong in Good Indians):
San Antonio
With Nowhere Bookshop, where, before the event, for their book club mailout, signed up 300 of these dudes:
Then there were enough people showing up, from all over Texas, turned out, that they had to procure a CHURCH for us to do this in:
Richard Santos, who I was lucky enough to be in conversation with, showed up before the crowd, got the chapel before it was filled:
And, after:
Coolest shirt in the signing line?
And, after, it was the coolest bar in Texas, I think:
The Tonight Show
Then, who’d have ever guessed, this happened:
Lakewood
Think this B&N had 20 or so chairs set out? But there were plenty of standers, once those filled.
Seattle
With the evercool Sadie Hartmann! Plane was late, so I had to walk in dragging my bag, get handed a mic, and take off. Which? That’s the dream:
Those snapshots courtesy Misha!
this one too:
And here’s what it looked like from, I think, Sadie and Misha’s seats, while people were still coming in?
Los Angeles
Before making it to Skylight for the event, I got to hang with Hollywood friends. Josh Stolberg—we didn’t think to snap any pics?—and El Coyote with Larry Zerner and Henry Darrow McComas:
Then it was hanging with CJ Leede at Skylight books—first upstairs, then down on the floor (these pics via CJ):
New York Times
Then the NYT, who’d already reviewed Teen Slasher, also did this whackiness:
San Diego Comic-Con
Coolest thing I saw?
Well, I also got to hang with Joe Monti and Shane Hawk:
As well as a star member of my publicity team at Saga:
My first non-virtual (weird term, yes?) panel at an SDCC:
And, the wonderful Trish Lundy (to my immediate right, below, and to CJ’s left, above) just heads-up’d me to this post–panel one, that showed up on Publishers Weekly:
Boulder
Always great being home:
Didn’t think to look the next day, for if the night before bumped it to #1 . . . Anyway, the event, the fun. Somehow I again don’t have crowd shots, but, was another very full house (one of these is via Millie Price, one via Billy Stratton, maybe?):
Which is a pretty great place to wrap this up. Well, unless this kind of fun’s fun:
Thanks for coming out, everyone. Couldn’t have been a better time. See you again in March, for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.