LC at BWB

Last night, the best independent bookstore ever hosted LC. For those of you who aren't ensconced in the trenches of reality TV, that would be Lauren Conrad, star of MTV's Laguna Beach (no longer on) and The Hills (spinoff of Laguna Beach starring LC). After being on reality tv shows for the past 4 or 5ish years, she decided to write a book and of course, it was instantly published and has made a zillion dollars since its release on the 16th. The book is called LA Candy, and it's a story about a girl who moves to L.A. and gets picked to be on a reality tv show about her own life. Hmmm... sounds autobiographical, yes?

The phone at the store rang off the hook all week, and in particular, yesterday, was so insane that at 4:00, we stopped answering the phone altogether. Literally, from 9-3 when I left to go change and come back for the event, we'd be talking on both lines, hang up on both lines, and they'd ring again... over and over and over. We pre-sold around 650 books and sold well over 100 more at the event. Of course, we couldn't hold all of these people inside our tiny store, so everyone was out in the heat, dressed to the nines (I couldn't believe how some of these girls dressed up for her!), and salivating for their 5 seconds with her when she scrawled an L and a C across their book and occasionally made a comment about liking someone's outfit.

The downside was that her driver got lost and they were very late, which kind of screwed things up, but it still worked out, and everyone got their books signed by the time she flew out of here at 9:15 to catch a plane to Austin.

Overall, the event was spectacularly managed by V, C, and everyone else. Truly, for having nearly 1000 people in a parking lot with a celebrity on a hot and sultry Friday night, it went VERY well.