Chicago was so warm on Saturday! Here I’d packed all these toasty sweaters and it was practically spring. Met some wonderful readers up in Gurnee at the Warren Newport Public Library — and hats off to librarian Debbie, who not only emailed me a while back to personally invite me (and I’m so glad), but who also knit two hats for the Lands’ End/Warming Families charity hat drive. Good stuff! I also met another writer, the delightful Marilyn Brant, author of According to Jane.

Then it was on to the Oakbrook Borders, where I had a chance to reconnect with one of my favorite bloggers, Amy Artisan, as well as meet Carol, the owner of Amy’s favorite yarn shop My Sister’s Knits. (I’ve known Amy for a few years now and she’s been a great supporter of all of my books. In fact, when FNKC was brand-new and I was on my very first book tour in 2007, I was scheduled to be in Milwaukee but not Chicago. And Amy drove all the way from her Chicago home back then just to say hello and get her books signed.) We were laughing at the memory because I had just a handful of folks at that 2007 signing and we had a much more robust crowd last night! Today is a drive back to Wisconsin, to Books & Company in Oconomowoc and Next Chapter Bookshop in Mequon. Looking forward to it!

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