Meeting the author went well. We managed not to be too rude about her book even though everyone else in the book had 'issues' with it. (I'd enjoyed it [1] in a sort of worthy academic way).

Of course, I had to ask for an autograph at the end which might have been embarrassing except that it released everyone else to do the same!

My only mistake was in taking my mindmap as the author now wants a copy which will take some work as my colored pencils probably won't photocopy. Sigh.


[1] Which of course amused my out of work social book group who know me for invariably hating the (sad/depressing/evil/all three) books we normally read and everyone else enjoys.