Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum detective series, did a signing at University Village's Barnes & Noble last night. The mega-best-selling author drew legions of fans; at 6:30 PM, the scheduled start time, staff was giving out wristbands and telling people to come back at 10:30. Surprisingly, Evanovich seemed to be taking the time to talk individually to each fan and pose for pictures. Now, that's class.
Evanovich was accompanied by a younger, taller clone (or maybe that was her daughter Alex), who handed out balloons and postcards to the waiting mob.
Evanovich appeared to promote the twelth book in her series, Twelve Sharp. The series has been winning hearts at a rate of one volume a year since 1994. Plum, the heroine, is a big-haired bounty hunter living in that earthly paradise, Trenton, and the books feature such edgy-enough-but-not-too-edgy-for-Peoria characters as a biracial, morally ambiguous colleague, a fomer prostitute turned file clerk, and a draq queen rock musician. Can 850,000 fans (that's how many copies Eleven on Top sold last year be wrong? We don't know, but all of them were at Barnes & Noble yesterday.
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