My Bottom Lip is Quivering

The Femme Tour is Over
The final stops on our tour happened last weekend in Seattle, and boy did we have an awesome finish. Femme authors, Lori Bryant Woolridge, Carmen Green, Nina Foxx, ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Trisha R. Thomas closed out the Femme tour with panache and grace that was indicative of the tour from its inception. Ft. Lewis was outstanding, and I'm not just talking about the lovely gifts they gave us. I'm talking about the heroes welcome of us, when it was our pleasure to welcome our Country's heroes and sheroes back home from war. Men and women of all ages stopped by our table, happy to see 5 successful black women writers, and let me tell you, we were the catch of the day! Seattle doesn't get what we gave them very often, apparently.

Our signing at Borders proved that point, but what it also proved to me was that we have to keep doing what we do so we're not 'Christmas in June' as one gray ponytailed man put it. We left signed books, is all I have to say. Please go pick one up!

Finally the book club. Nobody did it better. These ladies laid out a spread that was to die for, and we ate, and shared Femme Style, and nobody, not a single one held their applause--you had to be there to know.

We had a rousing finish. A wonderful end to an amazing tour that had incredible highs. In the upcoming months we'll start our huddle for Femme 09 and 10.
Remember Montel Jordan's song This is How We Do It? He's on my myspace page, check him out. Well, stay tuned. Because Femme will transform and we're going to do it different and better the next time around. You're going to want to be part of our success.
Until then, we raise our Femmetini glasses to you.

Just Being me,
Carmen