If you would like to listen to my radio interview on Book Talk, google KVMR, click on schedule (right side of page), look for Monday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., click on Book Talk, click on Program for November 23.

Many thanks to Eric Tomb for the opportunity to experience radio interviewing firsthand and to be able to speak to so many on issues of poverty and piracy and the social systems that create pirates!

The theme of our weekend was “Highland Fling”, and there were many ladies in plaid skirts and sashes, as well as hundreds of men and small boys in kilts and knee socks and wearing a sporran. Bagpipes and Scottish dancers, even kids from the crowd who used their folk-dancing skills to twirl to pipes and drums and flutes.

My thanks a thousand times over to our sponsor, James Huckabay, who invited us, set up our table and chairs under a lovely tree, drove thirty minutes to pick up Heart of a Pirate so that it would be at the Festival when we arrived, and even gave us a quiet place to rest and a chest of ice for drinks.

To my wonderful family, Phyllis and Adrian Partain and Patti and Pat Buckley, who stood behind me, dressed as pirates and speaking with patrons, who made food and shared wine and laughter, my heartflet thanks.

To Adam, my son, who watched our dear Labrador, Gracie, so that we might travel.
And, as always, to my husband Erik, who follows me whenever I have a new adventure, my love and gratitude.

Many, many thanks!

Many thanks to Sylvia Paull for graciously inviting me, and to Cynthia Josayma for making it all happen.

To Liam Johnson who dressed in an awesome pirate costume, even though he left the eye patch at home!

To Dee Humm a special thanks for her review for the Ladies Guild of St. Monica’s and for coming even though it was only half-time of the Notre Dame game!

To Orinda Books for their kind encouragement, efforts, and promotion of the book, for taking the time to set up, print postcards, and display the book’s poster. Especially, thanks for your openness and willingness to support artists and writers. You are, indeed, a true asset to the community.

For those of you who missed the talk, join me on Friday, October 30, 2009, at the Hillside Club Last Friday Luncheon, Berkeley, CA, at noon.

Special thanks to Linda Kay Silva who went out to her car to bring me her second book in the Across Time series, Second Time Around.

Check out “The Ladies of Lollybrach” support group for Diana Gabaldon, also interested in pirates and all things Scottish.

To the members of the Renaissance Faire community who dress in medieval and Renaissance garb and who work the booths, who are creative artists in ceramics, jewelry, pewter, and other fanciful goods, who play the music and perform the plays, and to Michelle who saw the potential of having books at the Faire, all of you are terrific!

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