Road Trip!

So in my last post I told you guys that I was going on a road trip with BFF for a book signing. Did I mention that it was for KIM HARRISON?????  I am a hugh HUGH fan of hers and The Hollows series is one of my absolute favorites.  I even buy the hardcovers when they come out, which I never do, so you can really tell that my love runs deep.  This was my first ever book signing so I was super pumped!

 We left late Monday afternoonish and arrived in Lansing Michigan at about 9pm something or other.  I didn't take any pictures of the drive because 1. It got dark pretty fast.  2. I am a good driver and must always concentrate on the road (and we most certainly did not have spontaneous dance parties to Justin Bieber).   3. When we got to Michigan they hadn't bothered to plow the left lane  and even though in my own mind I thought the roads weren't that bad, others did and were only driving 50mph. I had to use my ninja driving skills and pass them on the left lane just so I could go a decent speed.
So we traveled over 400 miles from Wisconsin to Michigan and only had to stop once to get more windshield fluid.  wooo go us!

So anywho, Tuesday finally came and we went to scope out the store that would be hosting the event.  It was a really cute store with lots of books (obviously) but they also had records, cds, DVD's and used books!  Which was awesome. It also had two nice little sitting areas and a little cafe.  Really really cute.  So we were there pretty early and needed something to do to fill the time until we had to come back for the signing so, dorks that we are, bought a Glass Stone painting kit, an origami kit, and a friendship bracelet kit and the rest of the afternoon was spent in best friend bliss.


Around 4pm we decided to drive back over to the store and get some food at the cafe and look around at the books more and get some good seats.

I pulled an A!ko and took a picture of my "gourmet" grilled cheese....

After eating we decided to go get some seats and eagerly await 7pm which let me tell you, is no easy task!!

Finally it was time!  I was trying to be a good human being and not blind poor Kim Harrison with my extremely bright camera flash, so I kept trying to take pictures of her without a flash, and yeah, lets just say those pictures turned out like crap.  So she came out, read a small part from the book, answered some questions and then got down to the singing.  She got a pretty huge crowd for it being a Tuesday!

That picture is without a flash, one of the ONLY good ones I got. Actually, it's not even that good. See how grainy it is?


I only took this picture because the girl with the pink purse SKIPPED!  Booo!

Finally it was my turn.  I went up and fan girled all over her. It was sort of embarrassing.  This is me telling her about how I got to read the book early and that Al is my favorite character and asking her if she could sign a specific page in the book that had to do with Al.  Do you see that look of "WTF" on her face?  HAHA!

She handled my fangirling with grace and finesse, obligingly signed both the specific page I asked for and the front page and now I can die happy. 

This  one is the specific page I asked for.  I was too lazy to rotate it so...ya know....just turn your head sideways  :)

YAY!  My trip was sooo much fun!  But really I hope she comes a bit closer to WI next time because my butt was really sore from all the driving!  But in the end it was all worth it.

I wonder if Jim Butcher is going to have a book signing......hmmmm 

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine to share what books we are most looking forward to.

Pale Demon
By: Kim Harrison
Publication Date:  February 22 2011

From Goodreads:

Condemned to death for black magic and shunned, Rachel Morgan has three days to somehow get to the annual witches convention in San Francisco and clear her name. If she fails, the only way she can escape death is to live in the demonic ever after . . . for ever after. 

Banned from the flight lists, Rachel teams up with elven tycoon Trent Kalamack, headed for the West Coast for her own mysterious business. But Rachel isn’t the only passanger along for the ride. Can a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car survive for over 2,300 miles? And that’s not counting the assassin on their tail. 

A fearsome demon walks the sunlight, freed after centuries of torment to slay the innocent and devour souls. But his ultimate prey is Rachel Morgan. While the powerful witch with nerves of steel will do whatever it takes to stay alive, even embracing her own demonic nature may not be enough to save her.






I LOVE this series.  I discovered Kim Harrison's books while I was commuting to college.  Instead of doing homework, I read about Rachel Morgan.  I hate hate hate that they went to hardcover but I am such an extreme fangirl of this series that I buy them anyways.  It is the only series I buy in hardcover. Even my beloved Dresden files must wait a whole friggin' year for the paperbacks to come out before I purchase them ( and don't even get me started on the new covers, or the fact that the new books coming out in paperback are half and inch taller then the previous paperbacks  GRR!!!!!!!!)   


A lot of people gripe about how Rachel hasn't grown in any of the books and that she still makes all the same mistakes but I don't care.  As long as I get my yearly dose of Jenks and Algaliarept I'm happy  :)








This is the tenth book in the series and these are definitely not stand alones.  I highly recommend starting at the beginning, plus, then you have something to keep you busy until February!  


The book order is as follows:  Dead Witch Walking, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, Every Which Way but Dead, A Fistful of Charms, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, White Witch, Black Curse, and Black Magic Sanction.  Phew!