Woohoo! It’s taken me a while to get to this, but I promised pictures from the release party of TRICKED, which we called Atticus n’ Oberon’s Sausage Fest. Held at Rula Bula, the Irish pub on Mill Avenue featured in the series, it was a completely spiffy gathering during which I got to hang out with some of my awesome readers. I won’t put up every single picture here because there are far too many, but if you’d like to see more than what I post here, please go to my author Facebook page and look for the album.
Quick business first: John Bonfiglio and Jenn from Tynga’s Reviews—you are #10 and #40, respectively, chosen by Random.org to be the winners of Shawntelle Madison’s COVETED! Please shoot me an email with your address so we can ship it out to you. Congratulations!
These pictures were all taken by Mike Ruggiero, the head honcho of Mike Ruggiero Photography. He does weddings and family portraits and all kinds of events…like Sausage Fests. Give him a call if you’re in Arizona and you need someone good.
Michelle wins the award for distance—she came out from London. She's helping me a bit with research for book six, HUNTED, which finds Atticus in England. It was so cool to meet her—and the lady taking our picture is Kat from Canada, who came in a close second in the distance contest thingie. Not that there really was a contest.Please note the TOTALLY RAD tie-dyed THIRD EYE BOOKS & HERBS T-shirt! They gave me one too and I boggled. I love my readers!Slammin' an Irish Car Bomb with the guys. Wound up doing two more of those. Plus two glasses of whiskey. Plus...oh my god I had a hangover the next day.Talkin' with Rob from Ohio. He's an aeronautical engineer. What you should take away from this picture is that smart guys wear baseball caps.The famous fish n' chips that helped Atticus decide to stay in Arizona for a while. The chips are like "potato coins" rather than frozen french fries. The beer batter is made fresh on site. It makes all the difference. NOM NOM NOMWith Lesa Holstine, the uber-awesome branch manager of the Velma Teague library in Glendale. They often host authors there for talks, and I'll be there this Saturday, the 19th, at 2pm. Come on by and say hi to us! Look, we're friendly!Part of the patio of Rula Bula features a lovely tree canopy. Once I walked under it, I was promptly shat upon by an avian "fan." It landed on my left sleeve. It did little to crush my spirit, as you can see. It may have horrified other people, however. Not sure.These wonderful ladies from Florida had NEVER thrown up the horns for a picture before. After a quick tutorial, they totally rocked it. You may notice that there are three people here and seven hands. I cannot explain this. I swear it's not Photoshopped.Signing a little somethin' for Nina, who came with Jess from San Diego and Santo Santos de los Santos, or some other San City in California. We made plans for piracy. Not electronic piracy, mind. Mostly we want to drink rum on a ship and wear bandanas.One of my favorite people, Lorien. I signed her Nook cover! Woohoo! In the background, an awesome shot of Oberon on the back of the tie-dyed shirt!Ready to do another Car Bomb with Ted and the crew from Denver. Hope to get back to Denver soon; love it up there.Had such a great time at Rula Bula with my readers! Thank you all so much for coming, and thanks to the wonderful people at Rula Bula for having us! Hope to do it again for the release of TRAPPED. Stay tuned for details—I'll announce it here! Remember more photos are available on my Facebook page in Atticus n' Oberon's album.
