We had an exceedingly good time last night with Bill Cotter and The Grown Up Lady Story Company as we celebrated the release of Cotter’s new novel, The Parallel Apartments. Bill was a bookseller here at BookPeople many moons ago, serving his time as a first floor Inventory Manager. So ingrained is his work ethic that he served the wine at his own event (until we shooed him away to go do his whole author mingling thing).
The Grown Up Lady Story Company kicked off the evening. Rebecca and Annie (who, by the way, made the cookies for the event herself; she used a cookie cutter shaped like a bowling pin – BRILLIANT!) each shared a story, then Bill read from the book. The Parallel Apartments is set here in Austin and tells the story of thirty-four year old Justine Moppett, who returns to Austin from New York where she meets, you know, more than a few unusual folk, as can happen here in the Capital of Weird.
The house was packed. Questions during the Q&A ranged from inquiries into Bill’s writing regimen (he writes whenever he can) to the idea that kicked off the novel (his mother pointing out the duplex on the corner of 43rd and Ave G where Bill was conceived). The room was filled with a lot of love and a whole lot of really well selected wine. (“I just went up to the shelves and grabbed what looked good,” Bill said. Well done, sir.)
While he signed extra books for our shelves, we grabbed a few book recommendations from Bill:
Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gortimer
To the White Sea by James Dickey
Music for Torching by A. M. Homes
Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
Thanks to everyone who came out last night. And a huge thanks, of course, to Bill, Ann and Rebecca for a fabulous event. Signed copies of The Parallel Aparments are now available on our shelves and via bookpeople.com.
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