If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you might recall the post from not so long ago where I bemoaned the fact that while I was signing copies of one of Penny’s books in a local bookstore, I neglected to take a picture for posterity. Well, I still don’t have a picture of Penny’s short story anthology on bookstore shelves, but thanks to my fake nephew-in-law, I DO have a picture of WHERE SHE BELONGS and HEAD OVER HEELS for sale in an actual bookstore. Yay!
This doesn’t happen very often for me, so it’s a moment to savor. Here’s the shot:
See that hand? Fake NIL (or maybe that’s Real Niece…the hand looks a little small…does Fake NIL have girlie hands?) is holding WHERE SHE BELONGS, which is face out on the shelves (always a good thing) and, to the left, right above the word “Where,” you can see the spines of three copies of HEAD OVER HEELS. In a few months, the reissue of BORROWING ALEX will hopefully join them. (Read that as, if locals buy HEAD OVER HEELS and WHERE SHE BELONGS, then the bookstore will be happy to stock more of my books as I write them. If, however, the books go untouched, then…well, I’m not promising anything. But they might go bye-bye.) (Awwwwwww.)
So if you’re Canadian and you happen to know that you live in a town close to me, instead of ordering my books (in trade paperback) off Amazon Canada (although you can do that if you wish!), you can pop down to the big independent bookstore on Main Street and ask for copies there. Remember where the old Eaton’s used to be? That’s where you go. The store has two syllables in its name. The first syllable starts with B (I wonder what word describing a bookstore could start with a B?), and the last letter of the store name is D.
There, it’s like your very own Easter egg hunt. Except it’s a bookstore hunt!
While you’re there, ask to see Cindy’s “Evil Twin’s book.” Two words in the title. First word starts with an N. Second words starts with an H. The manager and one of the clerks know which book it is.
Isn’t this fun?
For the love of god, get an apostrophe in that hed! Gahhhh. Oh, pretty cool about WSB on the shelves 😉
What, you mean you want it to say, My Books on Local Bookstore’s Shelves”? Smelly Belly, why would you request such a thing? It reads fine without it, no? And sounds better, too.
Besides, you didn’t spell hed right. It’s missing the A.
OTOH, now I know what to do to get you to comment on my blog. Be bad at grammar. 😉