Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday Western- Sayin' Howdy

This past weekend I had a delightful time with western YA author, Carmen Peone and Janet Chester Bly a mystery writer who was promoting her husband's westerns- Stephen Bly. We were the Western Author book signing at ...and BOOKS, too! in Clarkston, WA. It was the weekend of the Lewiston Rodeo and the owner of ...and BOOKS, too!, Judi Wutzke, had the brilliant idea to have a western based book signing.

In between customers, we talked about one another's books and had a mini writer's conference discussing everything from promoting to how we came up with our ideas. Janet and her husband have a combined total or 120 books and have been writing since the "70's"  and Carmen has only been been published over a year and has her third book coming out next spring. You'll learn more about them in the coming weeks as they have both accepted my invitation to blog here.

Carmen also had photos for sale of the areas and animals in her books. She is a talented photographer as well as a writer.

The bookstore wasn't our only stop. We were also invited to the Hells Gate Park for a dinner sponsored by the "Sisters on the Fly" a group of fun loving women who travel in packs with vintage travel trailers. At the dinner we all gave our spiel about our books and sold copies. After the meal, we were entertained by a husband and wife duo(Beargrass) who knew just about every western and bluegrass song a person could name. They were talented and witty. Visiting with them during dinner I learned the wife, Alane, had worked both in Central Oregon and in Eastern Oregon near where we will eventually move. And Shayne was from a tiny town in Idaho.


The best part of the weekend was meeting two more writers who I bonded with not only as writers but as researchers and lovers of the Old West.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I so enjoyed hosting the book signing event. Now, I am reading book 2 in Paty's Spirit series, SPIRIT OF THE LAKE. Book 1, SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAIN has incredible characters who are full of passion for their heritage and their families. I love the paranormal element in each book. I recommend reading this series. Let your imagination take wing and fly....Judi Wutzke, owner, ...and BOOKS, too!

Paty Jager said...

Thanks for stopping in Judi. I'm glad you're enjoying the spirit books. You are the best book store hostess!

Stephanie said...

Paty, what a wonderful time you must have had and Judi, great idea. I hope you do it again next year. My book will be done by then and I'd love to join you.

Paty Jager said...

Stephanie, It was fun!

Lynn Hallbrooks said...

I must say that I found this blog post very inspiring...I nominated it for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award:

http://callsignwreckingcrew.blogspot.com/2012/09/very-inspiring-blogger-award.html

Paty Jager said...

Thanks, Lynn.

Lynn Hallbrooks said...

You are very welcome, Paty.

Anonymous said...

Paty,
That was an amazing day. I am so glad we all signed together. I hope we can again.
Carmen Peone