My Book Party!

I had my book party for Alive and Well at the Bank Street Bookstore this past Tuesday. Lots of people braved the heat to come help me celebrate. Here are a few pics:

This is me with my super awesome editor Jill Santopolo. She was a dream to work with and said nice things when she introduced my reading, not once mentioning my numerous neurotic worrying emails.

I was really nervous reading but people were very supportive, including these guys, fellow writers Rebecca Stead, Donna Freitas and Courtney Sheinmel.

After reading I signed books. This is Karen Kanareck who was in our New School program, and that's the back of my daughter's head. If you look closely you can see that not only did she get chocolate all over her face but she managed to get some on the back of her neck as well!
Speaking of the chocolate, I'd gotten cookies from this amazing bakery on the Upper West Side, Levain. Here you can see people hanging out around the cookie table, including Lisa Graff, Kathryne and friends David and Aram. And on the far right that's the shoulder of my wonderful agent, Alyssa Eisner-Henkin. I'm not positive of the identity of the other shoulder. Peeking out from the back are the gorgeous sunflowers my New School mentor, Sarah Weeks, brought.
Afterwards we went for drinks and food at a nearby restaurant. This is me with Jenny and Lisa GW.

I had such a great time and am so thankful to everyone who came!

#daphne