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Meeting Independent Publishers in Minneapolis
March 21, 2007

I’ve never been to the twin cities and after spending less than 24 hours there, I can’t tell you much about the town.. towns?, but the people are something special. I’ve even been invited back to visit the State Fair. They don’t call this place the heartland for nothing.

I was on a panel with our venerable Midwest PW-ers; Matt Hurley and Claire Kirch at the St. Anthony Park Public Library in St. Paul speaking to the Minnesota Independent Publishers Association and a standing room only crowd of book lovers. The library is gorgeous and checking out the fiction shelves before the panel, The Birth of Venus caught my eye. I’d bought that book when it first came out, read a few pages (great opening about an old nun in an Italian convent whose full body tattoo.. a serpent? is discovered as they prepare her corpse for burial.) I then handed the book over to my mother (devoted daughter that I was) and never saw it again. For the record, Mom liked it a lot. I am going to have to get another copy. Did I mention that this one was  large print? Did I mention that I’m considering a copy in large print?

Posted by Louisa Ermelino on March 21, 2007 | Comments (2)