All About Vee!

The Fabulous C. Leigh Purtill and me!
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of stopping by Chevalier’s Books in Larchmont Village to visit C. Leigh Purtill during her book signing for her new Young Adult novel, just out, titled All About Vee. My friends Chandra and Christina also dropped by, along with several other Leigh Purtill fans, to help support Leigh whilst she signed and sold copies of her books. (Leigh’s first novel was Love, Meg.)
I picked up a copy for myself and am halfway through and thoroughly enjoying this story of a young plus-size actress who moves to Hollywood to see what she can do. I ALSO happened to pick up a second copy and have it signed by the divine Ms. Purtill. I am currently trying to figure out what kind of contest I can dream up for it. If you have any ideas, let me know. In any case, I may soon have my first contest for the book, All About Vee. Yay!
Leigh Purtill said,
May 12, 2008 @ 7:44 am
Hi Rachel! I love this picture of us! I put one on my own blog too…:)
Thanks so much for coming to the signing and keeping me company during the nerve-wracking time of simply sitting/standing/hoping people look your way and ask about your books. You helped the hours fly by!! Plus I really enjoyed talking to you about writing, publishing, and how awesome San Francisco is.
You’ll probably have finished the book by the time I write this -hope you still like it! I am totally psyched you’ll hold a contest for it! I will definitely post that on my blog and website!
Cheers and thanks,
leigh
Rachel said,
May 12, 2008 @ 11:23 am
leigh - you SO got it down! Even the barista job! To a tee!
Christina said,
May 12, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
Let me know when this is happening Rachel and I’ll post your contest up on a few of my sites so you will get more hits. ^_^ I’m wondering how everyone can read so much faster than I can. Chandra gets through books in a day in a half and it takes me maybe a week to finish the books I’m reading.
Rachel said,
May 12, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
I think it MIGHT have something to do with the fact that, oh, you have three (3) jobs?