Book Launch Party

After calling and pricing out eight potential venues, I have set a date for my book launch party.  The results of my calls:  too expensive, too expensive, too expensive, unavailable, annoyingly unhelpful, wrong atmosphere, too expensive, EUREKA.

The EUREKA is Franklin ArtWorks, an old movie theater in Minneapolis that has been made over into a gallery and performance space.  It’s cheap, which was essential.  (“Since your event is in May, you don’t have to pay for heat,” the staff person told me.  Pray for a warm spring.)  It’s got a great bakery across the street and a flower shop on the corner.  It’s got space for the reading and the musical performance that will be part of the event.  And space for the signing and for the reception.  And it doesn’t require me to use a specific caterer (or, for that matter, any caterer).  It doesn’t even require me to use their chairs.  I could bring my own if I wanted to.  Which I don’t.

So here it is: a book launch party for She Looks Just Like You on Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 p.m. at Franklin ArtWorks in Minneapolis.