If we had only known how much work it would be to put on a book festival we… would most likely do it all over again. It is a gargantuan effort but at the end we get to accumulate a few more signatures for the car 😉
The first in 2012 was the amazing Jack Gantos, who did a wicked cool skull on my driver’s side door.
Next was poet Sophie C
My shy favorite teacher of all time, novelist and memoirist Peter Scott:
Poet and lyricist Wyn Cooper:
The island’s tallest author and U2 fan, Peter Brace:
And one of my very favorite friends slash authors, J.R. Moehringer:
Who I had just seen in NYC at Book Expo a week earlier on stage with Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith.