Man, I don’t know if it’s just me and the fact that I am a total whiner when the weather turns brisk, but it has been COLD lately here in Brewtopian Manor, my Minions. We’re talking don’t-take-too-long-to-blink-or-your-eyes-may-freeze-shut cold. And I didn’t quite realize just how roasty-toasty warm it is inside until I just stepped outside for a moment. HOLY ICICLE NOSE, BATMAN! IT IS FREEZING!!!
But enough about me and my whining. We have Important Things to discuss.
I know a lot of you are gearing up for various end of the year holiday celebrations (and even if you’re not, this still applies to you) – so am I, actually. And my fall-back present, that gift I go to very easily and very quickly whenever I don’t know what to get someone (or just really, really, really think they would love it) is a book…or a pile of books. And shopping for books is fun. I love book stores – particularly cool independent bookstores, with lots of character. My favorite indie bookstore (though I do love them all very much) is Main Street Books in historic St. Charles, Missouri.
There’s just something about that shop. Whenever I walk inside, I feel like I’m at home. And then when I climb the stairs to the cool teen loft, I never want to leave. Not to mention that it’s on this cool historic street, full of really interesting shops, which always seems to have an amazing festival going on. For example, currently (and running through Christmas Eve, I believe) is the Christmas Traditions festival. Visitors can meet a range of Santa Clauses from around the world, listen to carolers, and joke around with Jack Frost. It’s pretty sweet, and I go every year. Normally multiple times. (So if you see me, please say hi – I love meeting my Minions!) It’s a neat place. A neat town. Full of neat people.
Now, you may be asking yourself “Why on Earth would Auntie be telling us all this? Snore!” I do have a purpose. And if you do love supporting small businesses, fulfilling your holiday shopping needs (or just your shopping needs, period), and meeting Auntie Heather, then I have great news for you.
The Independent Bookstore Alliance in Saint Louis has come together to offer shoppers a really cool treat. On certain days, in certain independent bookstores all across the St Louis area, shoppers (in my case, Minions) are going to have the opportunity to not only hang with their favorite author, but also have their favorite author act as their personal bookseller (more info HERE)!
Yep! Auntie Heather will help you shop for books (and all manner of awesomeness that’s at Main Street Books) and maybe..just maybe…she will bring cookies. Because she’s like that.
I’ll be working at Main Street Books on Saturday, December 17th, from 6pm to 8pm. So grab the family, check out the Christmas Traditions festival, eat some kettle corn, drink some hot cocoa, and then, when you’re done shopping all along Main Street, head on over to Main Street Books and shop in the warm, cozy bookstore with your Auntie Heather!
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i really dont live anywhere near st.louis so i cant see auntie heather.anywhoo im off to go do somethings.so ttyl bye
HOLY ICICLE NOSE!!!
Merry Christmas!!! :}
I LUV U!<3
Omg! Omg! i live in Missouri! I might actually get to go to this thing. yea!
ok
1 i live in a small town and cant ge there
2 yea why dont the want the vampires exposed
3 i love vlad but now i cant deiced between vlad and joss
4 is there going to be a 2nd book??
5 if u didnt read the 1st one ur crazy
6 i loved both sides of the story so
faR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(first of all…)the awkward moment when u forget the login name u chose becuz it was so long so u have to comment with a dumb 1…lol
im gonna be in texas for winter/christmas break and i wont get to see auntie (or as i call her “Mommy”) Heather!!! it just frustrates me so much tht i wont see her! like.ever.
@jaci-team vlad-nelly-joss-meridith-otis-snow i feel the same way
u need to come to wisconsin MOMMYYYY!
i always h8ed living here *poutyface* stupid Middle-of-Nowhere-Sorry-Excuse-For-A-State/City…
in her(mommy heather’s) honor i will go high and low to find a bookstore in my city! *insert defiant “HAHA!” here* XD you cant hide from THEE Old-Moldy-Awesome-Bookstore-That-I-Cant-Find!
…*sigh* it would be so awesome if mommy heather would come to my library….
so sad. I live in oregon. must see heather brewer…aw.
It would be nice to actually meet you for once, and I’d be very giddy about it. But unfortunatley I live in Michigan, where it is cold at least, but no snow. T_T I honestly don’t like snow but it does not feel right not to have any up here.
I also wish I could go shopping for books at the moment because I have a million books I want to read on a list, and I always feel so accomplished when I buy new books to read. They’re like friends to me, I read a new one, and it’s like making a new friend!
Come to North Carolina. I have a ton of places you would love. Any ideas on how to get the parents to let me go?
Ba ba ba ba ba but I live in Rhode Island!!!!!!D;Whatever to do, Auntie?????
Providence Dunkin’ Donuts Center says they would looooooove Auntie Heather 2 visit!!!!?!And that’s an open invitation to her Minions alsoooooo!!!!!
I would come if I could but I lives ^in Colorado Springs now, visit!!!
If it’s cold where you live you should see it here in Minnesota. It’s so cold here that most kids can’t open their mouths at the bus stop and If you touch anything metal outside your glove or hand will freeze to it
we just moved to florida,(sob)this is so weird,our winters are 70 degrees mild temp rain (sob) not normal. and you live SO FAR AWAY(VOICE BREAKING … SOBS)
Aw I’m gonna try to get down there! I heard the St. Charles thing is really cool. My cousins went last year. St. Charles isn’t too far from Florissant, so I might be able to. Time to ask Mama for a ride! Woot!! XD I’ll do my best, but the 17th is also my friend’s birthday. LOL I’ll bring her with me.
I’ll try to come down and say hi!
PS – I know how you feel about the cold. It’s FREEZING, isn’t it? Try standing at the bus stop @ 6:45 AM until a little after 7 waiting for a late bus. It sucks!! As my boyfriend says: I’m not built like a penguin!
i wish i lived in St.Louis you need to come to Columbia South Carolina at the books a million store in sand hills shopping mall area it would be so awesome i really want to meet my favorite author Auntie Heather
o and Merry Christmas and Happy New year Auntie Heather
Come to Columbia South Carolina o and i Sent in an envelope for my minion bling cant wait to get it im so excited
AWESOME!!! Thank god i moved to st. charles! live like 15 minutes away by walk!! LOOOVE YOU AUNTIE HEATHER!!
That sounds like a pretty cool place.
mannn:/ nobody ever comes to NC
I would love to go Auntie!! I actually perform in a traveling tour and I think we will be close to there… but we have a show that night
Hopefully you will make it to Wisconsin sometime (when the tour is done and back home)
Auntie, why you no come down south? D: Like, Mississippi maybe?? Because I would hijack a train if it meant getting to meet you in person and have awkward shopping adventures. Why can’t I still live in Missouri??
why why why why do you have to live soooo far i wanna meet you so bad but i live in cali come out here some time please!! ◕‿◕
But, But, But– I live far far away in widdle ol’ California!! However will i get to meet the magical Auntie Heather now??
Nh needs a lot of love all we have are local autthors please come to barnes and noble in portsmouth we need the attention even thouhg its freezing we have tons of books and im like ur # 1 northwood fan well im like the only 8th gradee who rwads books please come u cant reaist the pouty face( im a master at it)
Dear Auntie Heather,
Hahaha!!! anywho, you need to come to North carolina really REALLY badly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no jokes!!! I would be ECSTATIC if you came somewhere in NC!!! idk like Winston-Salem or High Point….. HAHAHA!!! i LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH AUNTIE! 
Please seriously consider! i luvs ya! byee!
i am a minion from the state that was 1st in flight. Teehees if you dont get it, im from north carolina!
AW im in california
AHHHHHHHHH I WISH I COULD GO! Auntie Heather you really need to come to Canada! It would make me soooooooo happy if you did!
I would totally come with vampire teeth O O
VV
mwahahahaha!! but I live by Chicago!!
Antie H!!!! You should come to Chicago I really want to meet you!! Your my inspiration for writeing
Please come to nh we need the love its only local author here please come to portsmouth newington to be spacific barns and nobal on my b day please im u #1 northwood nh fan im begging u u cant resist the cyber pouty face
arggggg!!!! Why must I live in Switzerland!!! I would really love to come but unfortunately I love about 468.7 Miles away and plane tickets are hard to come by when you are 14 years old…
ah me life is really unfair. I would have loved to come and it would have been totally awesome to see you auntie, but maybe you could come visit my wonderful city Zurich (pronounced Zurick) I am sure that you have plenty of fans here too and you wouldnt want dissapoint your european fans would you?
Noooo!!! I live in Switzerland!!! I would love to come but I live about 8,678 kilometers away and plane tickets are really hard toget when you are14 years old…
(sigh) life is really unfair. I would have loved to come and it would have been totally awesome to see you auntie, but maybe you could come visit my wonderful city Zurich (pronounced Zurick) I am sure that you have plenty of fans here too and you wouldnt want dissapoint your european fans would you?
yay!! i live in missouri!! and yes its freezing here and i just got the flu
i might come if i get better…oh my gosh i want to come so bad!! im so happy i live is st.louis!!!
OMG!!! i live in minnesota and theres absolutly NO way i can convince my parents to let me go Auntie Heather
NO!!
i live in Colorado. it’s so far away!!! well, i hope you have a great holiday season anyway, Auntie Heather. Love you.
WHY CAN’T I LIVE IN ST. LOUIS?!?!?!
Can you PLEASE come to sowhere close to the suburbs of Philadelphia sometime? None of my favorite authors ever do
They don’t even come to ANYWHERE in or near Philly? Wtf! Please come? I like, worship you. It would make my life!
come to ireland some time, i know it’s aaaaaages away… but you has loads of minions here ^.^ (partly thanks to me forcing the books upon everyone i know XD)
uggggg i feel like SUCH a HORRIBLE minion!!!!!!!!!! -runs into a closet and bawls my eyes out-ive been soooo engrossed in my own world that i forgot about you auntie heather -wipes snot on my UGLY cristmas sweater-im soooooooo sorry………….. will you find it in your eternal heart to forgive a fledgling like me?*sniffle*
*cheers up with my snotty self* hey isabel!!!!!! i missed talking to you!!!!!! how are you?
Sounds like fun! Too bad I live in Canada! But hey, you came to my home town and I got to meet you, so at least that. As a school assignment for kids in the arts program at my school, we get to make manuscripts, with the text being a passage from our favourite book, and I choose a passage from the slayer chronicles!!!! I still have another 3 days left of the workshop, and I finnished my manuscript, I’m going to start one from ninth grade slays!!!! Lots of fun!
I LOVE YOUR BOOKS
! THEY ARE SO EPIC! 
. JOSS ROCKS! 
Its cold here too… My lips turned blue earlier. D;
Me and my friend will be learning from the table in book 3.. but I’d love a book like Vlad had. That would be amazing. <3
But hey! I’ve read the Vlad Chronicles and I would love if you wrote an Elysian code / Vampire rule book.
AAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I live in Cali, man… THIS IS SOOOOOOOOO NOT COOL!!!!! >_> Well, any Minion who does go, please tell Auntie Heather that Ariel says “HIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!” Oh, and tell me if she makes good cookies!!!
Preferably in the Banning Beaumont area *wink wink*
Better yet, Auntie should come visit the Golden State sometime
hi heather i am a reader of the series and i was wondering what the theme is
plz reply back….. thx 
damn i wish youd come to memphis,that where i llive with all my goth friends
@vampireninja YES!!! i live near toledo!!!! IF SOMEONE GETS AUNTIE HEATHER IN TOLEDO I WILL DIE!!! but after i meet Heather of course!!!
I legit saw someone who looks just like you, tattoo and all walking out of a Regal in my hometown in Virginia. EVIL DOPPLEGANGER >:[