What a long weekend! I swear it has been August for weeks now. The Breaking Dawn release party was a super smash hit! The attendance was at least double what I had expected and if Stephenie Meyer ever releases Midnight Sun, I know that full out riot, er, I mean Potter gear will be required.
I can't take all the credit for our success. I had a fantastic staff who executed our battle plans down to almost the minute. Yes, there was one who just couldn't wait another minute, but I am trying desperately to let that lapse of judgement go. My registration table rocked the pre-line and gave out all available unreserved copies. My decorator took fantastic pictures against her creative back drop. And the soon to be married couple practiced by passing out slices of wedding cake.
Tee even helped from Atlanta. She finally corralled a wolf for me, and he looked fantastic on the wedding cake. Wal-mart did a surprisingly great job with the wedding cake. It had tiny drops of red that looked a little like blood sprinkled on the icing. The cheap chess pieces, the white queen and the black king, made great toppers. And Tee's howling wolf looked up at the happy couple with the appropriate amount of anguish in his tiny plastic eyes.
And it is only out of tiredness that I don't post my lovely video of Stephan drooling on his tux as he attempted to install his vampire teeth. Well, that it would be totally ungrateful after all of his hard work. Of course, that doesn't mean I won't be ungrateful later. LOL!
As for the book itself, I really enjoyed reading it. I plowed through it very quickly so that I could discover things on my own and not be spoiled. I must say it was her gutsiest of the series and it had quite a bit of adrenaline. I still can't believe some of the issues she skirted. I will definitely read Midnight Sun when it comes out, but I can't really say that I will go back and carefully reread Breaking Dawn as I did with Potter 7. I know the story and I have other pressing items to read.
To everyone who helped, a great big thank you! I can plan, plot, and instigate strategies, but I can not do it myself.
Current reading:
The Eight by Katherine Neville. Reading in anticipation of the sequel The Fire which is coming out in October of this year. It has taken a little over 20 years for the sequel to come out!
Overheard at the bookstore:
Spoken by a man eating wedding cake surrounded by 400 teenage girls sporting vampire teeth:
Hey do you have something special going on tonight?
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