The Harlot is Coming - Some Info

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, The Yarn Harlot, comes to the Seattle area on her current super-sized, everywhere-in-one book tour on April 21st - assuming she survives that long.

In the past Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, where she traditionally appears here, has issued tickets for the signing line in order of books purchased. (Note that they also have an author appearance on April 14th for the new book Knitalong by Larissa Golden Brown.) This year no mention of tickets and pre-purchasing books appears on their event listing for Stephanie, so I e-mailed to ask for details of the logistics.

Their event coordinator replied that they did not plan to use tickets this time. She described the line as usually pretty mellow and said people were fine with waiting.

I'd agree with that historically, but if you have a C group ticket you probably won't barge ahead when they line up the knitters with babies and the Group A people. If it's unreserved queuing and you want/need to get home early, you may. We'll see how it goes. I expect it to still be more orderly than most of author events - not that author events usually provoke riots or fisticuffs.

I'll plan on a late night with much knitting in line. And I'll buy my book ahead. A lot of people may leave that until the night of the event. Last year between three and four hundred knitters showed up. And it was a great line.

Comments

[Karen]

Have fun - she was very good here in NYC :-)