Dorothy meets Alice at IRA
By fern | General, Is It Night Or Day?, On Writing
McCormick Place: my rabbit hole When a book is released, a writer goes from a quiet, almost monastic existence to a minor celebrity's frenetic pace...overnight. Speeches, dinners, signings dramatically change the tenor of life. I often think of Dorothy's words in The Wizard of Oz, "I'm not in Kansas anymore." Yesterday, I signed books at the International Reading Association's conference at McCormick Place in Chicago, where I felt like another ...