Greetings from San Luis Obispo....
Oct. 21st, 2009 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanAnd lo, I left Redlands (but not before achieving signed copies of FLESH AND FIRE @ the #Barnes&Noble in town. Staff there really nice -- give 'em some love!) and headed North, bound for Saint Louis Obispo via Route 101, and a lovely picnic lunch on the beach. The drive cleared some tangles in my brain, and yay for the Android voice memo ap, which took some Very Important Story Notes for later.
The plan had been to check in to my room (small, cheap, and clean) and then stop by Taste, which bills itself as a tasting room for local wineries, open every day. Apparently, "every day" means "every day except Wednesday and Thursday." Fail, Taste. However Central Coast Wines was open and doing tastings, and was very informative (plus, I got to eavesdrop on a wine rep making a sales call, which is always fascinating). Bought two wines -- a grenache (Core winery) and a sauvignon blanc (Beckmen), that I suspect will not make it all the way home with me.
The B&N in SLO had three copies of FLESH AND FIRE, one BLOOD FROM STONE, and some other Retriever backlist. They also have really nice, well-trained staff. I signed (the books, not the staff) and left them for readers to discover. The Borders in SLO had... nothing. Their records indicated they had a single copy of F&F, but it sold, and they had no reorders. No Retriever titles at all, none on order. Oh Borders, once upon a time you were so lovely....
Work tonight. Tomorrow I leave 101 for rt 1 and the coastline, all the way up to San Francisco.
The plan had been to check in to my room (small, cheap, and clean) and then stop by Taste, which bills itself as a tasting room for local wineries, open every day. Apparently, "every day" means "every day except Wednesday and Thursday." Fail, Taste. However Central Coast Wines was open and doing tastings, and was very informative (plus, I got to eavesdrop on a wine rep making a sales call, which is always fascinating). Bought two wines -- a grenache (Core winery) and a sauvignon blanc (Beckmen), that I suspect will not make it all the way home with me.
The B&N in SLO had three copies of FLESH AND FIRE, one BLOOD FROM STONE, and some other Retriever backlist. They also have really nice, well-trained staff. I signed (the books, not the staff) and left them for readers to discover. The Borders in SLO had... nothing. Their records indicated they had a single copy of F&F, but it sold, and they had no reorders. No Retriever titles at all, none on order. Oh Borders, once upon a time you were so lovely....
Work tonight. Tomorrow I leave 101 for rt 1 and the coastline, all the way up to San Francisco.
