Nancy Love Biography a Hit in 2008
...Bring on '09

Copies of the Nancy Love biography were flyin' off the table at the big AirVenture gathering up in Oshkosh last July. People attending the "Fly-in of Fly-ins" live and breathe aviation and they scoff up books about airplanes and the pilots who fly them. A nice crowd also turned out for my talk on Nancy Love inside the air-conditioned Vette Theater in the lower level of the AirVenture Museum.

As always, I hung out with the WASP who attended AirVenture, and being with these ladies always guarantees a busy, fun time. I also staked out a chair at the Ninety-Nines tent since I am a new provisional member, known as a Future Woman Pilot. Yep, I'm learning how to fly, but we'll save that story for later.

Irving, Texas, was THE place to be the end of September. The WASP enjoyed their 66th reunion -- put on for them by Wingtip-to-Wingtip Association, a new organization made up of the WASP's children (formerly known as KOWs or Kids of WASP) and their friends (formerly known as Friends). Friend Katie Landdeck and KOW Chig Lewis lead the new organization. Visit www.fifinella.com or www.wtwa.org.

Again, copies of the Nancy Love book were popular and sold well. I'm particularly delighted when the WASP kids buy my books because I like to think that, by reading me, they will learn more about the fascinating lives their mothers lived before they were born.

Books & Co., Dayton Ohio's best-known bookstore, hosted me with a signing July 10, 2008. Many "thanx" to Sharon Kelly Roth. The program and the signing went well. Lots of my Dayton-area friends turned out for that one -- and bought books!

October found me in Newark OH for the North Central Section meeting of the Ninety-Nines International -- my first. Lots of interest in all my books, though many of the Ninety-Nines already had copies of the older two. Ninety-Nines are historically among my best customers. Why not -- they're all women pilots!

I did several smaller venues in the Dayton area as late fall and winter came on: joined fellow Dayton-area aviation authors at Authors Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force a couple of weeks before Christmas. Also made an appearance at the Aviation Trail's annual dinner celebrating the Dec. 17, 1903, historic flight of the Wright Brothers.

And did a fun talk Jan. 9, 2009, at the Engineers Club for the Barn Gang headed up currently by my fellow Sport Pilot buddy and fellow Vanderbilt grad, Frank Boensch. Go Dores! We won the Music City Bowl! We bleed black and gold!

Now I'm ready to hit the ground running in 2009 and the first stop is Atlanta, where I also get to visit my grandkids when the Women in Aviation conference is over!