premise: It was a great discussion , and Mary seemed to be enjoying herself too . I have to say , I love the idea of being an author who talks to book groups -- it seems like something that would be really fun ( if occasionally embarrassing ) . So I 'll add that to my personal goal list . After having just come back from Worldcon and hearing from / talking with lots of SFF authors of varying stripes , it was really interesting to have a similar conversation with / get a feel for the career path of someone totally * not * in the genre . Some author experiences clearly transcend genre ( e.g. What happened after the author attended the book group ?
hypothesis: Everyone was happy with the productive conversations people had .