An online booksigning!

Not a week goes by when someone asks me, "When are you coming to my town for a booksigning?" The truth is, probably never. More and more bookstores are reluctant to set them up, and since I don't fly (and tend to fall asleep at the wheel when I have to drive for more than two hours), it's usually a mighty long (and expensive) train trip to get anywhere.

But fear not, those of you with e books--and even those without--I can have an online booksigning at any time of the day or night thanks to Authorgraph.



What's Authorgraph? A FREE online service that connects reads to authors.  Authors sign a digital bookplate and the reader can add them to his/her books, or print them out and add them to print books.  (Hey, win-win situation!)

You can request my Lorna Barrett/Booktown books here:  Lorna

You can request my Lorraine Bartlett/Victoria Square books here:  Lorraine

You can request my L.L. Bartlett/Jeff Resnick books here:  L.L.

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Hey, it's Update Thursday -- I'm adding a recipe a week to my Lorna website.  Check out this week's recipe from Murder Is Binding.

DIG IN to BOOKPLATE SPECIAL!

What do you get with murder, good eating (with recipes), and a phantom pumpkin smasher? Get ready to chow down on one honey of a BOOKPLATE SPECIAL, which is officially released today!

In BOOKPLATE SPECIAL, Tricia has put up—and put up with—her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy, has stolen $100, among other things. But the day she’s kicked out, Pammy’s found dead in a dumpster, leaving loads of questions unanswered. Like what was she foraging for? Did her killer want it too? To piece the case together, Tricia will have to dive in head-first.…

You can check out an excerpt on my website--click here!

I'll be signing in a bunch of places in the Rochester, NY area in November and December. For a list, click here!

Can't make it to Rochester (and let's face it--we are kind of off the beaten track)? I'd love to send you a bookplate for your copy of Bookplate Special. Just send an email with your name and address to contest @ LornaBarrett.com (to avoid spam, I put spaces in that email address--just take them out, and it'll go through fine).

PRESENT TENSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Saturday, I had the very good fortune of signing at Present Tense Books & Gifts in Batavia, NY. This was a new venue for me, so I admit to being a little nervous. I needn't have been. I arrived about 15 minutes early, and was greeted by the store's owner, Erica Caldwell. She was with a customer, so I walked around the store for a few minutes.

What a terrific store! Housed in a gorgeous old Victorian home, the shop (inside and out) is painted in wonderful colors. There are several rooms filled with books, a selection of coffee and teas, children's toys (and books!), candles, hand-sewn purses (I was really tempted by those), pretty teacups, a gallery of original photographs, magnetic poetry kits, and lots of other marvelous things. I admit, I did succumb to temptation and bought a package of Who Dunn-Its sticky notes.

There was a display of my books waiting for me on a neat table in the second room, and there were even copies of Dead In Red on the table, but my signing was held in a cozy parlor with a fireplace. This is were the genre fiction is displayed. And as a former vendor in an antiques co-op, I had to admire all the wonderful display pieces in that room (and throughout the store)--a lot of them antiques and/or repurposed.

Erica had prepared a nice spread of cookies, mini pecan tarts (yum!) and coffee. No sooner had I sat down, when a parade of readers came by to have me sign copies of Bookmarked for Death--and Murder is Binding. They asked loads of great questions, and I was delighted to talk to everyone.

During a lull, I took the opportunity to talk to Erica and her husband about the challenges facing an independent bookseller. I'm always happy to hear that I "got it right" in the Booktown mysteries.

I was just getting ready to leave, when my good buddy Jared Case arrived to wish me well (and buy a couple of books--what a pal!).
All too soon, it was over. I signed stock, left a bunch of signed bookmarks, and me and my Who-Dunn-Its were on our way back home.

I sure hope I'll be invited back to Present Tense Books & Gifts!