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Anthony Horowitz is the British author of several books that Calvin has really enjoyed. The series Calvin’s lapped up is the Alex Rider series, about a teenage boy who has adventures doing spy type stuff with MI6.

He is on a book tour to promote his latest book, Snakehead (Alex Rider Adventure), and one of his stops was here in K.C. Mr. Horowitz was quite a good speaker, who really spent most of his speaking time doing a good job of answering questions. He’s clearly done this for a while as he has a pretty good patter down and is good at dropping funny stuff in his answers while sounding like he’s never said the same thing 30 times before. He was also good at making real off-the-cuff answers quite entertaining and interesting.

Calvin and I had a good time listening, and then we got in line so that Calvin could meet him in person and get all of his books signed. I mentioned to Mr. Horowitz that I was sure this book tour stuff must be very taxing, and I think he was glad to have somebody recognize that fact! He told me about his already long day (it was only about 1pm at that point) and how he had to fly out again that evening. I mentioned that he didn’t really get to see K.C. then, and he agreed, saying that he only got to visit the museum (I assume The Nelson) briefly. But he also said that he’s going to bring his wife back with him later on a tour of the states, and he’s definitely going to include K.C. in that visit!

All in all, he seemed like a very nice guy and it made for a fun thing to do that morning.