A Beatrix Potter Tea Party

Thanks, Bookwoman and Susan Post, for hosting a great tea party yesterday! People came from as far away as Fort Worth, Dallas, and even Amarillo--and Austin too, of course. We looked at the film, Miss Potter, and talked about the challenges of writing historical fiction/fantasy. Lots of fun. Bookwoman hosts SCN's Austin reading circle, so it always has a special place in my heart.

For those of you who missed it, I've started posting once again over at the Pecan Springs Journal. I'll be blogging the writing process for China's 2009 book. Take a look.

Peggy and I are back on our regular schedule with the herbal eletter, All About Thyme. We're not archiving these, for a very simple reason. When stuff gets out on the web, people think it's public domain (really! you'd be utterly amazed at the way people "borrow" copyrighted material, without bothering to credit either the author or the source). I may want to include some of this material in a later book, so I'm being selfish with it. If you think you might want to read these letters again, you'll need to save them to your computer.

But I just learned that there's an error in today's eletter. (Thanks to Katherine Misegades for pointing it out.) I gave you the wrong link for the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne IN. It should have been this one. My apologies to all you folks in Fort Wayne. But check out the link to the Sheffield PA festival anyway--it's next weekend.

But I did get something right in this week's eletter. There's a review of a new, and very good book. I hope this will turn into a regular feature, time and energy permitting. And yes, yes, yes, we are archiving these. The first one is posted here.

Reading note. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.--Anna Quindlen

Comments

[Leslie]

Re your comment re attribution, is this okay (my ever-changing signature for Gmail acct.)?

" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
source: Susan Albert blog, Lifescapes, 9/27/07

[Linda Mandeville]

Oh, I with I could have been there with you Saturday. Sounds like a wonderful tea party. I saw the movie this summer--in fact, I bought it! And for the most part, I really liked it; however, I am glad I knew fact from fiction before seeing it.
I started HAWTHORN HOUSE and love it. I also love China's new blog. I don't know how you do all you do---but it certainly makes alot of people very happy!

[Sharon Crozier]

If I was a millionaire, I would like to decorate my bedroom in Beatrix Potter/English Garden. I can envisage a painted mural very much like the illustrations in Susan's books.

[clarice]

I think the tea party is a perfect way to celebrate the new book (which I love by the way) Clarice

[Marti Johnson (aka Sock Queen)]

I love the quote about decorating consisting of building enough bookshelves! In a 3 bedroom w/family room home, you'd think there would be more than enough bookshelves, but when you have two people who collect & read books to the extent of at least six per week, and prefer to own as opposed to visiting a library, you end up with a lot of books! Usually when our "stash" reaches about 6000 books, we thin out the excess that we can bear to part with and donate them to the library book sales ... then there's a lot of clear space to buy more books! Book shops love us!