urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2012-11-01T16:27:57Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:475152 2012-11-01T16:27:57Z 2012-11-01T16:27:57Z Nightmare Before Christmas, "This Is Halloween." So Friday night, I will be appearing at The Booksmith in damp, drizzly San Francisco, California, as part of their <a href="http://www.booksmith.com/event/read-until-world-ends-halloween-bookswap">Read Until the World Ends Halloween Bookswap</a>. I've never done one of these before, so I turn to their website for details:<br /><br />"$25 gets you dinner and an open bar, a bookstore all to yourself and forty of your new best friends, discounts and swag, a chance to rub elbows with amazing authors, and tons of surprises. Amy Stephenson hosts."<br /><br />$25 to share a room with <i>me and an open bar</i>. Oh, the drinks that we'll drink! Oh, the thinks that we'll think! Oh, the giggling as I slowly list gently onto my side and go to sleep! I...okay, that last part wouldn't be very professional of me. So I won't do that. But if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area and looking for a fun way to spend a Friday night, come and spend it it with me in my guise as Mira Grant, and with all the boozimohol the bookstore can provide.<br /><br />Whee!