Every author event should have a mom

I drove up to New Hampshire this weekend for an author fair at the wonderful Bayswater Book Company in Center Harbor, on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee.

Here I am with author Marcia Strykowski at our table:

My sister's mother-in-law spends her summers at the lake, and so "Auntie Lucy" invited me to stay with her.

Here is the view from Auntie Lucy's front porch:

I offered to pick up a pizza, but she said no. Instead, she made me her world-famous chicken cutlets:

And before I left for the author fair on Saturday morning, she packed me a lunch, complete with homemade biscotti:

Thanks, Auntie Lucy!