Rain and the threat of a hurricane couldn’t dampen the excitement at the Collingswood Book Festival.
My dauntless detectives, Wilcox and Griswold, staked out the children’s section where they interviewed, fingerprinted, and took a ton of mug shots of potential suspects. Unfortunately, Miss Rabbit’s carrot cake is still M/I/A. If you happen to have any information about Miss Rabbit’s cake, please contact the Missing Food Investigator Hotline, 1-800-MFI-FOOD.
Here are some mug shots from yesterday’s AWESOME event:
Timothy Young
Laura Scott Schaefer
Kat Lindsey
Allison Gutknecht
Johanna Bilbo Staton
Detectives Wilcox, Griswold, and I would like to shout out a very big THANK YOU to Sidra Hobbs-Fernie and her amazing staff and dedicated crew of volunteers, as well as to Barnes & Noble, for making the day extra special.
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Looks like a terrific festival! It’s so much fun to see how everyone chooses to dress up their tables. 🙂
It was so much fun! The mugs shots were a HUGE hit with the kids. I almost ran out of mustaches (you probably don’t hear that too often). 🙂
LOL! I was noting that you seem to be the only one with schwag…you must have been the most popular author there!
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. But I think I was the only one with mustaches. 🙂
Mustaches for the win! 😀
Looks like it was a great event!!
It was AWESOME! 🙂 (The boys would have enjoyed the bug lady with her millipede and tarantula.)
You’re hitting so many festivals! Looks like such fun!
It’s been a blast! 😃
I’m enjoying your posts about visiting book fairs and festivals with your wonderful detectives. Great fun!
Thanks, Annina! It was fun. (Also reasonably close to Philly and BMC. Next time I’ll plan ahead and stop by the mothership. :))
It really looks like everyone had a ton of fun!
It was. The kids had a blast. Great seeing kids excited about books and mug shots. 🙂
Robin, Looks like so much fun. Need to catch up in the city one day soon. Will you be at the November conference?
Rosanne, It was! I don’t think I’m going to be able to make craft weekend, but would love to catch up. Please drop me an email next time you’re in the city.
If your next Wilcox and Griswold adventure doesn’t have someone donning a false mustache (mouse-stache?) I will be sorely disappointed.
Thank, Mike! I like mouse-stache. I may have to use that. 🙂 I just finished a draft of what I’m hoping will be book 3 (fingers and toes crossed). If it gets the nod, there will be some disguised characters.
YES!
Looks like I have read this rather late and all the festivities are long gone–and the moustaches. So sad. But your pictures look like you had loads of fun. I just read an interesting thing about “Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep.” When will she wake up in 2016?
Sue, the festival is wonderful. You would love it! Hildie wakes up officially on April 12, 2016. Thanks so much for asking. Chris Ewald could not have made Hildie, and her cast of annoying neighbors, more adorable.