Come & Go So Quickly

I should have written this blog on Sunday or Monday, but I didn't feel like it because I've been very busy writing a new novel and I really like it a lot so I haven't felt like writing anything but my new novel. Understand?

However, I had a lot of fun this past weekend and this is why:

On Saturday, my friends and I gathered at my mom's house to talk about a different book I wrote that's called Come and Go So Quickly. It's my favorite thing of all that I've written and I was excited to discuss it. Everyone liked it and I got some valuable feedback, but here are the highlights...

• We played my favorite wine label game, which requires people to buy wine based on the label and then relate that label back to the plot, theme, or characters in the novel. Literally EVERYONE brought their A-game, but Amy took home the prize (an original piece of Hannah Rae art that will eventually be the cover of Uptempo, Down) because she tied her label back to Ruby and her flowers and Bas, Bert, and Lucy.

• Biz told me her favorite book so far is Come and Go So Quickly, which pretty much made my year. I am always trying to write something that will become one of my fans' new favorites, and until this past Saturday, I've failed every time.

• My mom and Amy both said kind things about Sebastian. Amy thinks Bas is needy (he's not) and my mom always compares him to Bert (she's a Bert girl), so therefore, Bas is criticized a lot. It's sad, you know, because I love Bas more than most people. Fictional people and real people.

• Theresa brought me two more cans of my favorite chickpeas. ❤️

• Buddy planted an inkling of an idea in my head that might be the start of another book idea. I'm still puzzling over that one...

Here's a picture of everyone in attendance:

Here's a picture of Buddy, the deeeeeeelicious blue cheese-stuffed shrimp that she made, and me:

And here's a picture of my favorite chickpeas:

(Gosh, I love those...)