Saturday, November 28, 2009

Pie Contest winner!

November: W+K's Annual Pie Contest. My peach pie took 2nd place in the fruit/berry category. Amazing! Being a novice pie baker, I thought peaches would be available in stores in November. No. Not even ratty little wrinkly ones at Safeway. So frozen peaches I had to use. Guess they worked out okay!

Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel

October: Book signing for Anina and Paul's latest book, Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, a story about the world's first robot soldier. This is historical fiction so cleverly executed, many people have been fooled into believing the Boilerplate soldier actually existed at the turn of the 20th century.

Brad and I both posed with a life-size replica of Boilerplate.


And since we were at Powell's City of Books for the book signing, I was able to see some local advertising I had worked on, in situ. Stair stickers advertising the Wordstock literary festival: