Technically, that’s the Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport. My flight is at 7:10 p.m. and it’s currently about 4:30. Oh, and everything is closed because that 7:10 flight is the next and last flight of the day.
Not to worry:
I have Internet, which is how I’m writing this.
I have access to an outlet, so I don’t have to worry about power.
I have a Diet Dr Pepper.
I have several good books (including one from Byron, two student short stories and a couple of unwatched 30 Rock episodes on my iTunes.)
The Michigan trip has been darn good. Really good turn-out at all three events, a drop-in at a terrific store in Gaylord, great weather and great company. (Until I was dropped off at the airport, I was with publicist Emily Fink and her dad, Alan.)
If the gods of aviation are kind, I’ll be in Cleveland by 10:30 tonight. But wherever I am, I’m going to be eating bad stuff, watching television, reading books and killing time with e-mail, so why not here?
Maybe I’ll just read <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Crime.t.html?ref=books”>this</a> over and over.
hey, didn’t you do a drop in at a great little mystery store in Ann Arbor? What was the name of that store again?
It was called Aunt Agatha’s and it is THE BEST MYSTERY BOOKSTORE in Michigan.
Whenever I’m in Ann Arbor*, I always go by Aunt Agatha’s, where the owners are FRIENDLY AND KNOWLEDGEABLE and sometimes give writers gifts, not to mention free books.
*This is absolutely factual, as is everything else above.
It’s nice to know that you have things to pass the time while sitting in a virtually closed airport waiting for a flight. Laptops are so cool!
Here’s hoping you find something decent to eat once you get to Cleaveland though after 10:30 that may not be a realistic wish for you.
As a Michigander, hope you enjoyed our state. We had hoped to see you in Lansing but could not attend. Grand Rapids has a Schuler Books (locally owned, independent) and we’re bigger than Lansing or TC. Ann Arbor is definitely a cooler place to live, but we’re only 50 minutes away from “the big lake”. Maybe with the next book? Anyway, sorry we missed you, but glad you had good turnouts.
I saw the Times review today. Wow! Janet Maslin and now Marilyn Stasio. You have arrived. Congratulations! And it was great seeing you back on the list!
What fun meeting you last night in Okemos! I always look forward to reading your new adventures, especially those set in and around Baltimore. I feel as though I am “home” again! Don’t forget – it would be fun to read about some adventure set in Rosedale or Parkville, too. Bawlmer forever!! Keep up the great work!
Doesn’t Traverse City have delicious cherry pies?
Not only does Ms. Stasio like it, she’s also impressed by your book. Perhaps this will be another pillar for best seller ranking.
I am unreservedly recommending WTDK to every person I have liked since 3rd grade (and two kindergartners). I tell them all to let me know how they respond. You are batting 1000.
I know my gang–50 years on.
As someone who left Michigan years ago, I’m very glad that you enjoyed your time there and gave me the tip about Aunt Agatha’s for the next time I’m in Ann Arbor. It’s always nice to know that there is an independent bookstore that I can give some business to! Traverse City is one of my favorite places in the entire world. Safe journey home.
Now I’m in Detroit.
Where the A&W has cheese curds.
Which makes up, I think, for not having a single cherry anything in Michigan.
Cleveland here I come.
An A&W in Prince George’s County? One that sells cheese curds?
Please, Andrea, do NOT tell me where it is. Or, to quote a favorite piece of signage/art glimpsed in Kansas City in the summer of 2001: Protect Me From What I Want.
Congratulations on the NYTBR review — fantastic, and deserved. Isn’t it lovely when people actually _get_ what you’re trying to say?
So sorry to have missed you due to dental emergency and then some fainting episodes.
As far as I know Aunt Agatha’s is the only mystery bookstore in Michigan and surely run by the nicest people on earth. Going there is like going home.
It is nice, Clair. Marilyn Stasio found my other stand-alones slow and ponderous (paraphrasing, but not to my advantage), so it’s especially nice that she credited me with trying to “stretch” between Tess books.
It’s also very nice to share the page with Westlake and Estelman, both of whom I admire so much.
Laura, There is a PG county A&W that has cheese curds. Do you know that fresh cheese curds squeak when you eat them? I learned that in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin where I had both fresh and deep fried cheese curds.
Now that I have made many drives through Baltimore(previously only having seen the Innher Harbor, the area near the Walters and one trip to the Art Museum and Gertrudes, I need to re-read all of Tess’s books so I can see if any place I have passed regularly is in your books.
Jeez, great review Laura.
How to kill time there? Wineries!
Many congrats on the Stasiso review! (Lead review in the column and author photo in the print edition-you are conquering the NY Times!) I particularly liked “great thought and compassion.” And Tess even got a “lively adventures” so it’s a good thing that Baltimore Blues has been reissued.