This was my fourth year going to the festival. You would think that after 3 years, I would know how much time it takes to get there. But no, once again, I couldn t remember.
Note to self: next year leave around 7:30-7:45. We got stuck in traffic about 3 exits away and ended up not getting there until after 10:30. We ended up in the newer parking garage which was farther way but easier to walk in out of the other garage has lots of flights of stairs while this newer garage only had one.
Our plan was the same as last year go to the kid youth booths first. Those always end up really crowded later in the day. I was really glad we did because , an author told me about was at one of the first booths!
Courtney: one of the ladies at the booth saw me looking at his books (I was trying to find a good copy of An Abundance of Katherines to buy) and asked me if I had read his books before. I said, No, but my friend Courtney told me about him and said she had a literary crush on him. She replied that she did too but now that she met him she had a literal one too!
Hee! When I walked away I noticed he had his video camera sitting on the table.
Bought Nine Lives of Romeo Crumb: Life 3 got signed so now I have all three books signed!
Next book I bought was by VMK Fewings. V was really nice. I read her book already and will be posting an entry about it soon.
Bought The Strand Prophecy by J.B.B.
Winner. J.B.
B actually stands for Jeff, Brittany and Brianna. Jeff wanted his daughters Brittany and Brianna to gain an appreciation for books and reading so they started to create a story and ended up writing a book. I loved that background but ultimately bought the book because of this description: A combination of Jurassic Park, X-Men and Indiana Jones.
The guy who sold me the book was the girls uncle. He should be a salesman because he had an awesome pitch.
We headed away from the kids/YA section to everything else.
I was hoping would be with Santa Monica Press again so I could buy another one of his pop culture books. He was so I bought Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here: More Locations of America s Pop Culture Landmarks (the first one I bought was James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America s Pop Culture Landmarks). He signed it and asked where we were from.
When he found out, he wanted to know if we had been to where James Dean crashed. Of course, I always make my mom take that route to the coast! I m looking forward to buying another one of his books next year.
I also bought Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock s San Francisco from the same booth. This book sounds like something I would use. (not sure if Stace likes Hitchcock though)
Not even half way through with the booths, we had to go back to the car to drop off all our books and other purchases and we ate lunch before starting back up again.
The rest of my purchases for myself except one book were all cheap (cheap as in $1-3 each) used books: The Haunted Southland by Richard L. Senate, The James Dean Affair by Robert S. Levinson, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella Al Weisel, Tofu Quick Easy by Louise Hagler.
The last book I bought was Hollywood and Sunset by Luke Salisbury. I almost passed it by but last minute saw the cover had from the movie, . Earlier in the day, I had been looking through a book that was a walking tour of L.
A. and it included Hollywood. It had a section about being designed as a homage to the set of a silent film called Intolerance.
The set had originally been on the corners of Hollywood Sunset and stayed there until it started to fall apart and they tore it down. It would ve been such a cool thing to see too bad it s not there anymore.
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