Outside Taper Hall - but in reality, mushrooming all over campus. It's time for the annual Los Angeles Festival of Books, an event that I've singularly failed ever to attend/visit, for a variety of reasons (i) the only time I've ever proposed to appear to promote a book I'd written, I was turned down - I guess I should have put together a whole panel of ... of what? other books about flash photography that happened to be coming out at the same time (ii) fear of lack of available parking (iii) all the books I have at home, and haven't yet read - do I really need to know about any more? (iv) the book(s) that I should be using any spare festival-going time to write (v) fear of all the people who have quite self-evidently managed their time better than me and have managed to write something. And so on. Next time I have a book emerging, though, I'll try and be a bit more together about its local promotion than I was last time ...
In grad school, we went once to the Festival--and saw Marcia Clark, former hapless prosecutor turned crime novelist talk about her latest thriller. She looked very cool. The vibe of the Festival was good! You should totally do a panel for your next book!!
ReplyDeleteI know! I was badly prepared when I proposed something last time, and just ended up feeling bruised ...
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