Quite a thrill
Yesterday was the most exciting day of my daughter’s young life. Yes, Victoria Holmes, aka, Erin Hunter was in town, and for close to three hours we were permitted to bask in her glory.
If you don’t know who Erin Hunter is, you must not be spending much time with any tweens lately. She’s the main author and originator of the Warriors series, which causes eleven year old girls to spend inordinate amounts of time on YouTube making tribute videos to Firestar and other Warrior cats with similarly bizzare names. (Fun fact–Victoria is tired of coming up with these names and now all the fans create them for her. Someone compiles all the suggestions into a spreadsheet for her and when she needs a new cat name, she just opens up her spreadsheet and picks one.) This is in between devouring new books in the series. I just found out there’s a Warriors Wiki out there in cyberspace.
I was planning on bringing my own reading for this event (The Good Guy by Dean Koontz, very nice), but it turns out Victoria Holmes is British, which is always fun to listen to, she’s absolutely hilarious, and she talks to children like they’re adults, which was a hoot. She also shushes them sharply when they talk out of turn. What’s not to love?
And she dislikes cats immensly. Nasty little creatures, she called them. The kids she called greedy, which is why she has to have help churning out these books.
I wish I had an idea for childrens books, just to get those rapt adoring fans. That was something to see.
Cover to Cover, waiting for a signature
