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The Locked Bathroom

It's a funny thing about a blog that no one knows about yet. It's like a locked bathroom, a magic sanctuary, a junior high school journal. You can just sit in it, rummaging around in the old bellybutton for wayward lint, maybe sing off-key a little bit or stare off into space, and nobody's the wiser, the more grossed out, or irritated. Even after I hit the "Publish" button, I think I'm going to pretend I didn't.

Visit an Indie Bookstore on Saturday, November 29th, and Watch Authors Try Not to Ruin Everything While They Attempt to Help Out!

11/22/2014

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Look at them! Delicious shelves stuffed full of those magical concentrations of story and wisdom and the connective heart-breaking hilarity that Snagglepusses at the heart of life's matter.

Yes! The books! The ookbays! The bop "o" "o" kop sops!--
whispering amongst themselves while they wait for you to pull them into your lives, so they can pull you into the rest of yours.

On November 29th, come visit Charlottesville's New Dominion Bookshop or another independent bookstore near you...Authors are using SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY to help out independent bookstores as part of the INDIES FIRST CAMPAIGN http://www.bookweb.org/indiesfirst. I'm not sure where spear-headers Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will be keeping the displays fresh, but Jen Swann Downey, author of THE NINJA LIBRARIANS: THE ACCIDENTAL KEYHAND will be at Charlottesville's New Dominion Bookshop on the Downtown Mall http://www.newdominionbookshop.com/ from 11am until 4pm.

Let me attempt to ring you up a fine mind-bending novel or two without breaking anything! I'll also be doing two twenty minute readings for kids up in the Mezzanine at 11:30 and 2pm. Kids 5 and up welcome. Go explore the treasure while I hold your offspring, if not captivated, then at least captive.

If you don't live near or in Charlottesville, check this link to see which authors are coming to an indie near you for Small Business Saturday: www.indiesfirst.com



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Caryn Caldwell link
11/24/2014 02:11:42 pm

Wow! That's a brilliant idea! May have to talk to my local indie store about that, if they haven't already heard about it.

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