Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Yogi Berra Look-alike
The Mid Manhattan Library is at the corner of 40th Street and 5th Avenue. If you're familiar with New York City, that's one block from Bryant Park, one block from the kick-off of baseball's All-Star parade, one block from nearly a million baseball fans.
Yesterday's library event was planned months ago by MWA. Perhaps it wasn't the best choice of a date. Still, we had a large and appreciative audience. As often happens at my library events, it looked like we were holding an AARP meeting. (Was it wrong of me to tell the audience that my readership is dying off?) I definitely need to skew younger. There was a guy sitting in the back of the room who could have been Yogi Berra (except for the nearly one million witnesses who can attest to his presence elsewhere last night).
Anyway, it was great fun. My thanks to MWA for sponsoring the panel, to the New York Public Library for hosting us, to Jack Getze, Evelyn David and David Handler, to the Yogi Berra look-alike and especially to an audience of enthusiastic readers.
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Would it be possible to suggest a topic for which I really do need help on? How to set these kinds of things up. I don't have an agent--yet!
--and I have no clue what to say, who to contact (in a general sense), what to do.... Help?
How exciting to even be in NY during the All Star Game. I loved my visit to the Mid-Manhattan library...I'm going to have to pull out the photos and reminisce just a bit.
I am glad you had fun! I've only been to NY once, but I did appreciate that your bagels there are as big as my head =0)
@RedHairedCelt - I'll put something together for you in a couple of days.
I'm just going to take cosmic credit for that experience... you see, I stumbled across my ex girlfriend out of the blue...I didn't recognize the face but some edges still looked right (the face) but who can forget whom a person whom touches you? So three customers go by and knowing how impatient my once friend is, I'm just waiting for proof it is her. all I need is the attitude. lo and behold a cranky customer arrives at the counter and wants his food remade because his order was called while he chose to visit the restroom--a worthy way to earn attitude. and for a change, my ex handled this rather well- but I saw a gang of support lurk to the rescue and congratulate what became in the very next breath an incident "no ticket, no taco" (fast food, fast incidentTs). here was no doubt my recognition found its mark. but power recognition must be shared- so the universe sent you yogi.
Sadly, younger readers requires you to lasso some with the old tv western panache...then teach them to read aloud to gain the speed and confidence to not hate reading as they do. believe me, the lasso will have other uses involving a chair....and that special tree gravity excape for you that involves rope. some jobs leave one dangling.
Sounds like a dream come true to me. I'm currently querying agents. Do you work with one, or did you get your own publishing deals?