Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Lunch With a Book Club

This past Saturday I was the guest of a local book club. We met at Longhorn's resturant, one of my favorite places for good food. I was impressed with the knowledge that these ladies had of my characters in No Place For a Lady! They knew them very well and even brought a map marked with the route that Crystal took on her long journey from Georgia to Colorado! It's a wonderful feeling for an author to know that what you've written has touched someone's heart. Each one of the ladies said they are looking forward to reading The Jewel of His Heart. I certainly hope they won't be disappointed. The fellowship was sweet and their questions were lively! I'm honored that of all the zillions of books they read, they chose mine.

Lunch ended with a surprise for me with a gift of a memory box from the Willow Tree collection and a Writing Angel Muse. She's hanging from my desk lamp now and is adorable. They didn't know that I have a small collection of Willow Tree angels and a manger scene, so I was thrilled and surprised that they would go to this trouble for me.

The Angel has a quote from James Michener-"I love the swirl & swing of words as they tangle with human emotions." Oh, that's just so perfect for me!

These ladies encouraging words and voracious reading habits make me want to strive to write the best stories that I can and not disappoint them with the integrity of my writing. So thank you ladies, Jennifer, Darlene, Lisa, Anne, Mary and Milli, for the memorable Saturday afternoon and until our paths cross again...Happy Trails.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brenda, Congratulations on the book club meeting and glad they all enjoyed it so much. Still haven't read book 3 but plan to today once I get access to a computer.

Love Caroline

Maggie Brendan said...

Hi Caroline. Hope your vacation was fun!I need one, maybe soon.

Anne said...

Good afternoon, Brenda!

Just wanted to let you know we do have a name for our book club. We entered a contest 2 years ago and began to call ourselves the "Saucy Scarletts". Needless to say, it hadn't been too long since we had read Gone with the Wind and were full of thoughts of Scarlett!

We did so enjoy lunch with you last Saturday! Can hardly wait till October to read the next book! The title for the third one is great ~ that's just what she needs to "bring her into line"!!

Hugs to you,
Anne

Maggie Brendan said...

Anne, I like that name, Saucy Scarletts! Y'all never mentioned that you had a name. I thought about that as I was writing my post.

Hope to see you in October.:)