L.L. Barkat of Seedlings in Stone and Green Inventions Central interviewed me about Not So Fast.It’s appropriate that the title of this post rhymes, as L.L. is a poet. A book of her poetry, entitled Inside Out, was recently published and she hosts the poetry posts (ha! more rhyme!) at HighCallingBlogs.com and Random Acts of Poetry/Poetry Friday at her Seedlings in Stone blog.She titled the interview with me: “Shoes, Twitter, and Wild Kingdoms : Talking with Ann Kroeker.”Don’t tell me you aren’t at least a little bit intrigued!Here’s an excerpt:
LL: I remember meeting you at the Calvin festival. I was walking through the breezeway, and from a distance, I saw this cool looking person peering at me inquisitively. It was you! We officially met moments later, then spent a lunchtime together chatting forever. Remember?Ann: How could I forget how gracious you were after I practically stalked you! I knew you through blogging communities and writing networks online, but we’d never officially interacted. So when I saw your book, Stone Crossings, for sale at the InterVarsity Press table at the Calvin festival, I asked the staff if you were attending. They said you were, and I thought, “Hey, here’s a chance to meet that smart LL Barkat.” Yes, I really thought that, because I admired your clever, intelligent comments and your beautiful yet accessible poetry.I asked what you looked like, since I’d never seen a photo of you. They described you, so I spent the rest of the day looking for someone who fit that description. When I spotted you down that breezeway, you looked like a promising candidate. I was staring at you, waiting until you got close enough so that I could read your name tag. You must have been thinking, “Am I about to be accosted?”Instead of running or calling security, you were poised and gracious; and when I explained myself, you invited me to join you for lunch! We packed a lot into that lunch break. I think we talked about books we were reading, books we were writing, publishing, agents, bloggers and blogging. And shoes. We discussed our shoes…
Speaking of shoes, here they are:
I’d love to share this interview with you in its entirety. Would you mind popping over to L.L.’s Green Inventions blog to read it?
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Photo of L.L. Barkat’s and my shoes by L.L. Barkat. Used with permission.
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This makes me so happy. I remember when you wrote about meeting L.L., and I started reading her then.
Both of you are so beautiful.