Say cheese

Right now Scott Brunner, a photographer from the Marshall News Messenger, is taking pictures of me as I write. Talk about feeling like a Supermodel! (A real one, that is, as opposed to someone who trains young children to call her by that name.) Click, click, click. These pics are supposed to accompany an article announcing an author signing at Promise Christian bookstore, which incidentally is being held on April 24 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. You’re invited! Please come if you are going to be anywhere near the Marshall area. Even if you have no use for a gift book called You and Me, Sister, come by anyway and say howdy. It should be lots of fun, and they’ll be serving refreshments, too.

The newspaper article will also include information about the book I’m now finishing, which will carry more interest with the community, because people are familiar with that story and many of them are part of it. Yeah. So. He’s still just clicking away, and I feel weird. But there you go.

Um. I’m trying to look natural here, but I’m having trouble not laughing. Meanwhile he is moving a mirror so he can get a different angle. This is actually kinda fun. I’ve never been one to shun attention, if you haven’t noticed.

If any of you take the Marshall News Messenger, check out this Sunday’s edition, and you should see the article (for which I was interviewed Monday afternoon) and the pictures that are now being shot even as I write. He’s taking shots of my hands now. What a hoot! Ha ha. I guess I’ll just keep writing off the top of my head. I don’t know what else to do. I hope he’s not taking pictures of the computer screen, b/c if he is, he’s getting this post, which probably isn’t what a professional author who is preparing for an author signing should be writing. But I really can’t focus on editing my real manuscript while the camera clicks. I mean! He’s taken at least 50 shots already! They’re digital, which is nice for him. He doesn’t haven’t to wait till he gets them developed to see if he got any good ones.

Okay. What else. I’m running out of things to say about this. But I don’t want to just sit here doing nothing. Oops . . . here we go to take some in a different setting . . .

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Well. He’s gone now, with who-knows-how-many pictures. Hundreds. Me at the computer, me holding the sister book, me standing profile in the background through a doorway beyond a wall where Jacob’s sr. picture hangs in the foreground. (This guy has a great eye for composition!) Me playing “Jacob’s Song” on the piano. (I played and sang the whole thing for him, and he just clicked away and away and away!) I must say all this made for an interesting hour.

I do hope everyone will come to the signing, so I won’t sit by myself looking like a pathetic loser. I’ll love you forever if you do! I’m getting back to work now. Bye.