happyThis afternoon, at roughly 3:00PM PST, I'm going to be heading over to Borderlands Books in San Francisco, California to sign stock. Borderlands takes phone and internet orders. They also take requests for signatures and personalization.
If you want to get a copy of One Salt Sea, or any of my other books, you can contact Borderlands (instructions on their website) and place your order now. I'll sign whatever's waiting for me when I get to the store.
I love my local bookstore.
The good and the bad
September 7 2011, 05:01:08 UTC 5 years ago
The bad news - it was in trying to get these books that it really hit me hard regarding just how many brick & mortar bookstores have closed in the last few years. As long as there was one open pretty close to me I never really noticed how many of my "backup" book sources were no longer there. But when the closest one closed and I started going through "the next closest was just down here...." - well, it wasn't there any more, and neither was the next closest after that, and the one after that...
I'll check Mapquest and/or the Yellow Pages to see if there is a closer one some another direction - but I wound up at one that was about 13 miles away. There were 2 Bigchain bookstores within a-mile-and-a-half of my house just a year or so ago....
Anyway - Happy Bookday, and I hope you had fun at Borderlands.
Re: The good and the bad
September 7 2011, 18:48:19 UTC 5 years ago
I'm glad you got your book.