Kickoff! Score! The Castro Kickoff for our Ginger Snaps book tour was successful--exhausting but successful. Neither David nor I had ever done an author's event. Oh, we have been to mucho many author signings. Well, I have. David doesn't read. No, he's literate and all. He just doesn't read. He says so proudly. Sort of a literary Luddite instead of a technological one.
The Castro evening started off with Ginger refreshments: pinwheel sandwiches with tomato, red fruit in the fruit salad, ginger snap cookies of course. All washed down with ginger ale, ginger beer, and red wine.
The program began with David telling everyone how the book came to be, followed by everyone playing the Pumpkin Patch Game for fun and prizes. (FIRST OF YOU WHO CAN TELL ME WHAT A GINGER'S PUMPKIN PATCH IS WINS A $5 STARBUCKS CARD.) Then David presented the photo Ginger Wearing, Well, Ginger and I read the story from the book. Then Ginger Checking Out a Smooch. Smooch was the first story I wrote for David. Wearing Ginger was the one that convinced David we should do a book.
Then it was on to a Pop Quiz and prizes and Q&A with more prizes for anyone brave enough to ask a question. My favorite question was what is queer in Cockney Rhyming Slang. Answer: Ginger Beer. Finally, PRODUCT SALES!! We got rid of--er--sold our first books and tshirts. Yay.
The Ginger Snaps Choo Choo is now picking up steam and heading south to L.A. More about that next time.
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