Sarah Prineas ([info]sarah_prineas) wrote,
@ 2008-10-01 07:29:00
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The Tour Begins!!


I hope you're not getting sick of this yet, because despite my travel spammage, the U.S. tour is only just beginning. Early on I vowed to blog the whole thing, with pictures, and I'm really going to do it. In a minute I'll post separately the entire tour schedule, just to have it out there.

So! Today I leave for New York City. I LOVE New York, and I actually have some time in the schedule to walk around. Hopefully I'll have time to amble downtown to awesome children's bookstore Books of Wonder. Plus a lunch meeting on Friday with my editor (some big decisions coming up!), and filming a new video for marketing.

Tomorrow, a school visit in Ridgewood, NJ, and then...

Then!!

I'm doing a school visit at the Woodside Avenue School in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, sponsored by the awesome indy bookstore Books, Bytes, & Beyond. I'll be doing a signing at BB&B (Glen Rock, NJ) on Thursday (tomorrow!) at 3:30pm.

Here's the really cool thing. Cool for me, anyway--I was thrilled that my publicist was able to set this up. I went to elementary school at Woodside and haven't been back there for almost 30 years. I simply can't wait to see it again!! And meet the kid readers there, of course. Hee!

Did you ever do that--go back to one of your old stomping grounds? (why "stomping"?). What was it like? I wonder what my memory has done to it, whether it'll be familiar or completely weird.


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[info]wldhrsjen3
2008-10-01 01:02 pm UTC (link)
Have fun!! :D (And yes, I've been back to one of my old schools and it felt distinctly weird. It smelled the same, and I had this urge to grab a stack of books and head for class. My stomach even did the same twisty thing it used to do when I was nervous about school. Now, my kids go to the same school my husband and his father went to, so he has a different reaction. To him, it's just normal to go back.)

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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-10-01 08:38 pm UTC (link)
I have such clear memories of it, and no idea if it'll still be even remotely recognizable. Tomorrow!

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[info]j_cheney
2008-10-01 01:16 pm UTC (link)
I used to spend a couple of months out of the year in Manhattan....but taht was back in the early 90s. I can't begin to imagine how much it's changed since then...

Have fun!

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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-10-01 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Well, I have nothing to compare it to, as I haven't been here much (yes, I'm here!!). Lots of people and energy crammed on to a small island...!

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[info]olmue
2008-10-01 01:22 pm UTC (link)
I was born in NJ and moved to AR when I was 9. I went back 20 years later, and it was a weird feeling!! Like I'd eaten the mushroom out of Alice in Wonderland and grown suddenly very, very large. The houses on my street were just shorter than they were supposed to be! Northen NJ was just as pretty as I remembered, though.

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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-10-01 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Oh! Where did you live in NJ?

I'm expecting the school to seem very small. It's been SUCH a long time.

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[info]olmue
2008-10-02 01:26 am UTC (link)
A tiny town with the awesome name of Succasunna (Morris County). I think I recognized the name of where you were; that, or there is a similar-sounding place near where I lived.

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[info]asatomuraki
2008-10-01 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that is so cool! I've been back to a few of my old schools once or twice. One of the private schools I went to is a church now. It is an interesting feeling. I imagine it will seem much smaller to you now.

It all sounds so exciting! Please keep up the blogging!

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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-10-01 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I will! But dumb me, I forgot the camera, I was in such a rush this morning (too busy blogging to pack properly, evidently).

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[info]retrobabble
2008-10-01 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Nope. Not tired of hearing about it at all! Keep them coming. :D

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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-10-01 08:41 pm UTC (link)
You got it!

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