On the Road Again

I am also, as it turns out, going to be reviewing the manuscripts of six (count ’em) six lucky people.  All children’s librarians do this on a certain level.  You’ll get a self-published person come up to you at your desk and ask if you might consider adding the book to the collection.  Sometimes it’s really good, as it was once with a woman who created this magnificent little clay images involving cows and dreams.  Sometimes it is not so hot.  The problem with my critiquing something isn’t that I don’t know how to critique.  It’s that A) The person’s sitting right there and B) I’m a librarian.  Not an editor or an agent or much of anything aside from a reviewer.  So hopefully these people won’t feel they got entirely shafted by the experience of seeing me.  In my darkest dreams I’m worried that I might do this anyway:

Now tonight I’ll be toasting the town with all y’all, and if you want to stop by my Kidlit Drink Night, please do so.  I’m not in Seattle very often and I’d love to see you.  You will note that we couldn’t reserve a space (when I am rich and bored I shall reserve spaces all zee time, dahlinks) so we’ll just be crashing the nice bar.  Awesome.  And I will wear a wear saffron/coral/red colored dress to catch the eye.

Where: The Parlor,
THIRD FLOOR OF LINCOLN SQUARE
700 Bellevue Way NE. Suite 300,
Bellevue WA 98004

No, Really, Where?: Somewhere in the bar. We do not have a reserved space.