‘American Fantasy’ Author Emma Straub Brought Us Behind-the-Scenes on Her Book Tour

Courtesy of Emma StraubI love Lin-Manuel. He is the greatest. As great as you think he is, he is better. I am very very lucky to have him as my friend. This was at my book launch, and was one of the very greatest nights of my life.Courtesy of Emma StraubThis is Buccee's, the greatest gas station/everything store chain in Texas. I bought my whole family presents, and snacks. It's the only place to buy a burrito, pajamas, a 40oz iced tea, earrings, and a bathing suit. (I bought all of those things, and more.)Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowCourtesy of Emma StraubSome days are just good days, and this was one of them. It was the morning after my event at Skylights Books in Los Feliz, and I was walking to my favorite breakfast spot in all of LA, and I was feeling GOOD.Courtesy of Emma StraubThis is my friend Amy's very cruise-appropriate sweater and VERY boyband book appropriate New Kids on the Block button, saved from her childhood.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowCourtesy of Emma StraubThis marquee was in Concord, New Hampshire, at a beautiful event set up by Gibson's bookstore, which has been there for...100 years?? I want to say even more than a hundred years. I should have taken a photograph of the marquee in the daylight, but I did not. Oh well! Hopefully someday I will have another marquee and I will do it then.Courtesy of Emma StraubThis is also in New Hampshire. Here is something important about going on book tours: it is hard to know when to eat dinner! I had just driven 2 hours from Boston and when I got there, I ordered Indian food from a place around the corner, and the booksellers went and picked it up for me and I ate more food than you can imagine in five minutes flat.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowCourtesy of Emma StraubThis was in Ann Arbor, and I feel like I have to point out that there were more people than this! Ha! I really love my pink suit. It's from Ann Taylor, it was a steal, and I get a hundred compliments every time I wear it.Courtesy of Emma StraubThis is my face and also my face, outside the theater in San Francisco. Which face is bigger??!! Hard to say!Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowCourtesy of Emma StraubThis was in the green room in Orange County, at the library. I bought that shirt that day, because I was proud of myself for sending home a box of things I wasn't wearing. This yellow top takes up very little space. Practically none! My friend Priyanka took this picture to send to my husband.