I had an interesting thing happen this
morning that tickled me. The incident didn't begin as anything
amusing at all. I noticed that the tub was a quarter full of water
hours after Jon had his shower. I also noticed that there was a lot
of metal scraping and a rumbling motor noise coming from the
apartment next to ours. The last time that happened, we had a
plumbing snake that came through the drain, reached the floor, then
headed down our hall! Still, I had a lot of work to do, and couldn't
still about idly until the plumber showed up. I had finished shaping
a batch of pretzels and moved onto the croissants when there was a
knock at the door. It was the plumber. I let him in and turned on the
video I was using to make the croissants. I was at the part where the
butter is pounded and rolled into an 8 inch square. After I finished,
I heard the plumber say, 'It looks like the one on TV.' He'd never
seen anything like it. He managed to see me make the basic dough and
put it in the fridge. “You should be on the TV,” he said as he
left. I was very flattered and quite tickled. But if I were a TV
chef, I couldn't do all of that cursing! I was so amused that I
didn't mind the really dirty tube he left behind as much as I might
have.
Book Fair Beats
Now, I must make with the promoting! At
last, the week of the West Hollywood Book Fair is here! We are so
incredibly excited, because we all of our books were delivered in
time! No waiting and hoping any praying that we might possibly have
them by Friday. I almost don't know what to do with myself. Almost. I
still have a lot of work to do with creating promo materials and
baking goodies for the booth and the raffle. I fell like my life is
partially on hold until this is over. I'm doing a Michael Corleone
with 'After the Book Fair, all my businesses will be put in order.' I
can't edit any of the recent videos. And forget about working on the
webseries or any of the other projects. The only thing I can make an
exception for is the editing gig for Digital Manga. I signed a
contract, so I have to stay on top of all of that.
Sypress in the Park will be at booth
C23 at the West Hollywood Book Fair. We are in the poetry section
next to the culinary stage (how cool is that placement). We're
nearest the West Hollywood Public Library's entrance. The Book Fair
opens at 10am and closes at 6pm. We'll be there the whole day though
if you're looking for any one of us in particular, you may have to
hang out a bit. We're all big ol' book nerds, and we really enjoy
shopping there. So, one of us is always manning the booth with the
authors while the others do their shopping or check out a panel. Did
I mention the panels? They are awesome for readers or writers! Check
out the web page for a map of the booths and a full schedule of the
panels http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
. But you aren't in Los Angeles and want to get in on the fun? We
have just the thing for you! For the duration of the Book Fair and
for our convention appearances until the end of the year, there is a
sale of selected titles from Sybaritic Press. They will cost what we
charge at the Book Fair AND those prices include shipping and sales
tax! Just go to this page http://sybpress.com/bookfairsale.htm and go nuts. We accept VISA, Mastercharge,
Discover and Paypal. This is also true at the booth where we also
accept cash! For those who can't make it, we will have photos and
video of all of the fun.
On that note, I must sign off. I have a
lot of work to do, and I'm running out of time to do it.
Stay tuned!
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