| Apr. 16th, 2008 @ 06:00 pm Finally! |
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Coming up for breath. Last week I was away on a mini pre-pub tour meeting booksellers, librarians, and other folks who love teen literature. Whew! A fun, delicious, whirlwind trip. Our first stop was Seattle. I stayed at the very cool Hotel Max that was very artsy. Here is the door to my room:
Each floor highlighted a different Seattle photographer. My door looked like a skylight that you could walk right through. Luckily, I didn’t. At least not until the door was open.
Our next stop was San Francisco and the Parc 55. Gorgeous hotel and darn, I didn’t get any pics of the bathroom. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cynthialord would have loved it. The weather was perfect. Here is the view from my room. Way in the distance you can see the bay. Beautiful, beautiful day and not a patch of fog to be seen. I think it’s a rumor.
And finally our last stop, San Diego. I live not too far from San Diego but I had never heard of or seen the Hotel Salomar. It’s a well kept secret. Very cool decorations that are a combination of beachy theme and animal theme that celebrates the nearby (and world renowned for good reason) San Diego Zoo. The things that really made me smile, were the bathrobes:
Nope, no functional white here. Loved it. I wore the cheetah one. That is cheetah, right?
So enough about the digs--meeting with all the folks on the tour was awesome. It was great to see and talk with so many people who love books–some I already knew, and some I freshly met. I hope to see them all again soon, and I probably will because many of them will be at BEA and at ALA.
I got home last Friday, but I had barely had time to unpack before I had to prepare for a presentation on Monday. It was for about 25 school librarians for their professional growth day at the San Diego County Office of Education. More people who love books. And it was in their technology center so they had every gadget you could imagine. The gadget gurus already had my website set up on the screen when I got there, and later I was able to play my book trailer for them all–on a huge screen!
But the coolest gadget of all which was totally new to me was the DocuCam. Have any of you ever seen one? It looks like an overhead projector, but instead it is a camera looking down at your “stuff.” And it can be ANY stuff! That’s what’s so cool. Overheads, books, you name it. You could put your head on the table and show everyone your tonsils if you wanted to. (I refrained.) But the point is, it can handle any media which makes it so versatile. I brought along some of my research from writing The Adoration of Jenna Fox, with all my scribbled notes on it. The Docucam was so easy to use. You could go from one media to another without having to think about it. And it's nice to use the real stuff instead of always having slick pictures of everything.
So today I am finally catching up, doing laundry, paying a few bills, calling the plumber (that little leak had the nerve to turn into a big leak while I was away) and all that other fun stuff.
I will get my act together soon and post my tour information! |
