Book Show Adventures

As most of our loyal patrons and loyal readers know Randy is in New York attending Book Expo America.

He spent yesterday (Friday) meeting authors and getting books signed. Each time he called he rattled off the names of authors that you would recognize. I should have been taking notes so that I could better share the excitement with you.

Children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) was one of the authors signing books. Randy got to meet him and is bringing back a signed copy!

I know that many of you have read Krakatoa by Simon Winchester on Randy's recommendation and won't be surprised to hear that Randy was looking forward to meeting him.

The Fox News O'Reilly Factor was taping comments from the show attendees and Randy thinks his has about a 50/50 chance of being aired. I think given the nature of his comment the chance is much less than 50%. What can we say? We love publicity.

Saturday is shopping day. No, not the Macys and Bloomingdales kind of shopping that New York is famous for. He is visiting the vendor booths at the show and shopping for new books for the store. And, he is probably racking up more freebies.