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We didn’t have internet access in Italy. Not reliably, at all. So we couldn’t put up any blog entries. But now we’re home and the internet is ours once more. Though, truthfully, the schedule of interviews was so busy I’m not sure we’ve have put up more than a few sentences here and there. Jet lag is never pleasant.
First, the people of Italy were warm, friendly, and made us feel very welcome. To everyone at my first, ever, anywhere, in Europe signing: thank you. Molto grazie. That’s thank you, very much. There were about three hundred people, and almost no one spoke English. We, of course, could say, maybe, two words of Italian, at that time. But our wonderful publisher Nord had gotten us a translator; Paolo. As everyone who met him that night can attest, he was great. Jon and I discovered that even names we thought we knew how to spell were differently spelled in Italy. Beautifully spelled and very exotic to our American ears. We had Paolo keep the list of names he’d written down for me to spell from. I figure when we finally see more vamps from the council that some of the names may come in handy. I actually told some of the fans at the signing that I might do that. Such pretty names. Though to Italian ears the American version of the name was what sounded exotic. Funny that.