Day 14: I’m #2

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In the CrimeSpree Awards, with John Connolly’s THE UNQUIET winning the top spot. (Actually, I don’t even know that I’m second, but I’m second on the list.)

On the BookSense mass market bestseller list.

And, you know, forever in my own household, but so it goes.

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6 thoughts on “Day 14: I’m #2”

  1. Well I am a witness to your fame. Being recently retired, I thought I would go to your signing at the Pikesville Library this afternoon only to find a “parking situation” in the library parking lot. All of the spaces were filled, but the lot was still being circled by the gray-haired group. None of us were used to encountering a full lot in the middle of the week, middle of the day. Well, not ever in Pikesville if truth be told. Your turnout was better than the meet and greet with the senators.

    I am only slightly ashamed to admit that I honked my horn at a car driven by a tiny gray haired person in front of me. Especially when she backed up without looking—-at me right behind her! I parked down the street from the library (wow), enjoyed the aerobic walk to the building, but the room at the library was at capacity and I couldn’t get in. I looked on with envy as officer Vickie Warehime (from the county and more recently from The Wire) breezed in past the librarian guarding the door. Hmmm, so I needed a uniform….. I wasn’t alone in being turned away. This is so exciting having a favorite author drawing crowds larger than a room can hold. Way to go, Laura!

  2. Thanks, Jackie, although I feel awful that some people didn’t get in.

    Heck, I almost didn’t get in — the library let me park in the loading zone!

  3. Jackie, Syd and I recently discovered that Wed. Speaker Series and from any that we have attended, we can tell you that it is best to get there way too early and then spend time in the library. There are always complaints re inadequate parking for the series. However, they have not been turning away people inside.

    In prior years, Laura drew crowds at the library even when she was speaking at night. So, Laura who considers herself a minor celebrity, know that some of the other speakers for Wednesdays have been “minor” celebrities but did not draw your crowd. Face it, you’re in the big time, maybe not Julia Roberts big time, but better than “minor.”

  4. Laura,

    I’m sure you have made Baltimore Co. librarians very happy–it is always a goal of librarians to plan a program that fills the room (but dang those pesky fire marshalls who limit the number of people that we can let in)! Anyway, I’m sure that this built up good librarian karma which hopefully will provide good things on your next stop, the Public Library Association conference in MN (from where I am now posting).

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