Lounging with Laura Caldwell and Renee Rosen on one of the very strange couches at the Renaissance hotel in Schaumburg

Well-fed authors: Renee, Lesley Kagen, Sean Chercover, and me. Sometimes eating eggs benedict two days in a row is, in fact, a good idea...

The fabulous Ben LeRoy of Bleak House Books. Great hat, eh?

With Sean and Buzzy Porter, publicist extraordinaire