here it is!! On the table, at Barnes & Noble. I sent my younger brother out with his camera to give me proof that it's there. I'm on the same table as Lionel Shriver's The Post Birthday World, (the teal cover near the bottom left corner, might be unrecognizable except that I just read it) which I feel honored to share space with. AND I'm right next to a picture of Johnny Depp!!
Other news: this same Barnes and Noble (Gateway Mall) has scheduled a reading and signing for me! Saturday April 12 at 3 pm. I am now busy trying to contact local reporters etc to get the story in the paper to get people to attend. A signing where four people showed up would be very painful. Especially because all four people would already have the book. Even more so because they would have the book because my dad gave it to them. Because they'd all be relatives. And we'd sit in a circle and discuss my brother's baby rather than have a reading, because they've already read it, and the B&N personnel would feel sorry for us but not sorry enough not to boot us out to make room, and then we'd have to go to Hires and drown our misery in root beer.
No, this is what I'm preventing. Utah friends and family, make note...
Saturday, April 12, 3:00 p.m. at the Gateway Barnes & Noble.
Bring your friends! Bring your relatives! Bring strangers off the street! I'll see you there.
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Sweet! Remind me of the dates you'll be in town? I'd still like to host a reading, though originally I thought it would be in a cool new house. Now I guess it will just be in my regular old house, which is a pretty good house all the same.
Any house is fantastic when it's hosting a reading. I'll be there from April 6 to April 26. The first week looks busy, but I don't have anything scheduled (yet!) after that.
Okay, sounds good. I will actually be stuck in Idaho Falls from sometime on 4/13 through the evening of 4/18, and then I am quite possibly flying to Portland on the 4/19 returning 4/21. Sooo.... it looks like 4/22, 4/23, or 4/25 would work for me. Ha, what a crazy life I'm having right now!
(PS, I wish your blog would e-mail follow up comments! I just discovered this one from you. I wonder if it would if I logged in before I sent a comment?)
Ah, yes, I see that if I am logged in already when I'm about to leave my comment, it will e-mail me the follow-up comments. Must remember that...
Oops, I see that I forgot the reason I came to visit your blog at all today -- I was at the Gateway over the weekend, where I went to see your book "in the wild." Also, as a matter of trivia, Jane Austen footed the bill for the publication of her first novel, Sense & Sensibility ("by A Lady".) Now you can buy an original copy of it for a mere $114,000 (http://www.biblio.com/books/163379904.html), or for the less discerning, I guess, a copy for just $45,000 (http://www.biblio.com/books/81457981.html) I wish! Yes, these are the things I entertain myself with as I languish away in Government service...
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