{"id":7260,"date":"2012-12-10T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T13:43:09","slug":"book-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/book-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week we did several individual book signings and are gearing up for a three hour book signing event on Saturday, December 15th, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearmundcellars.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pearmund Cellars<\/a> in Broad Run, Virginia. Book signings are a new experience for Kathy and me. People do like to have their books signed. Probably we are most careful about the spelling of names.<\/p>\n<p>Book signings carry a different mystique than celebrity autographs. There is the personal connection between the book, author and reader that transcends an autograph. So far I have found it much easier to sign books for people I know. You can write something personal. I still try to write something personal for those people that I just met, it\u2019s just a little more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Like autographs, we discovered that some people have a collection of signed books. They enjoy meeting authors and having a book signed. After reading, the book is added to their growing collection. We have several signed books in our house by different authors; however, they are not all in the same place. This may be something for us to think about.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the Northern Virginia area, visit Pearmund Cellars on Saturday afternoon. Kathy and I will be on site to greet you. Visiting a winery in December can be an alternative to busy mall shopping. You can pick up some wine for the Holidays and gifts and purchase a signed book.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the book <em>A Wine Journey<\/em>, visit the book\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awinejourney.winetrailtraveler.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Book Signings\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7260\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week we did several individual book signings and are gearing up for a three hour book signing event on Saturday, December 15th, at Pearmund Cellars in Broad Run, Virginia. Book signings are a new experience for Kathy and me. People do like to have their books signed. Probably we are most careful about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2719,2767],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-a-wine-journey","tag-book-signing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}