We're quite pleased with how everything went this weekend and will be taking the day off here at Pilcrow HQ.

Recap of the festival to follow.

Last Night.

Pics are up on Pilcrow's flickr page. Here are some highlights:

Rebuilt Books Auction.

Re: Rebuilt Books Auction

Bring cash and bring your checkbooks; we can't do much of anything with credit/debit cards. That said, get ready-- we have things for every budget to help rebuild the New Orleans Public Libraries-- for example, my stylish clutch handbag fabulous eyeglasses case made from Three Fallen Women on perhaps the lower end, a two-month membership to Uptown Writer's Space somplace in the middle range of things, and say, Nick Hornby's hand-written brainstorm for Songbook (a first edition alone, much less a first-edition signed copy of the actual book goes for a pretty penny, so a one-of-a-kind hand-jotted list? Um, yeah.) and Tony Fitzpatrick's beautiful piece of art, "Luck", on the higher end of things (I will not be mad at anyone if they would like to purchase this beautiful piece of art for me. It's beautiful. I gasped when he handed it to me yesterday.)

And, remember, every penny from this auction on Saturday evening goes directly to New Orleans Public Library Foundation. Pilcrow is covered for the things we need for the most part, but New Orleans needs our help, and that's where the help will go.

Pilcrow's official bookseller + author speaking at Pilcrow = start the Pilcrowing early

Here at Pilcrwo HQ, we heard Pilcrowista Rachel Cline is reading from her fabulous book, My Liar, tomorrow evening at our most beloved bookstore, The Book Cellar (4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave.) and thought it would be just lovely for those of us locals and early-to-arrive-in-towners to start the celebrating early and head out to show some her some love.

Twitter said what?

Okay, you know that @amyguth, @leahjones and @pilcrowlitfest are on Twitter, but what other participants are? (I know I'm going to miss people, so add a comment and I'll update this thing.)

Industry Folks
@luxlotus
@katieschwartz
@wendy_mc
@meganstielstra
@larryodean

Documentary Folks
@helloleticia
@philgomes
@thefemgeek
@Lahrsawyer
@dubster2k
@BobbiDigital
@zemote

Who did I miss? Lemme know and I'll get you up there!