PTERODACTYLS & GOVERNOR CLEMENTS

I dream of tractors. And former Texas governors who want to buy expensive books from me.

GAUCHOS, COWGIRLS, AND VAN CLIBURN’S HEAD

A dull day at the Fort Worth Book Show where for us dealers, the highlight of the show was unquestionably the appearance of a local (male) “author” who dressed up as a gaucho, carried a look-alike doll, and wore more make-up than Mary Kay Ash’s cadaver. I break up the tedium by nipping over to the National Cowgirl Museum and, later, trek a few blocks to see the homage to FW homeboy Van Cliburn painted on the side of a statue of a Texas longhorn.

PAPA LIVES!

The only thing worse than crazy customers who think they know about books is fellow booksellers who get rid of those crazy customers by suggesting they call YOU! If you think you have a signed Hemingway, perhaps you should read this first….

PROMOTER OF FUN!

My first exposure to the wonderful world of The Oriental Trading Company was a catalogue addressed to “The Promoter of Fun” (a position I had not heretofore known existed in my tiny family-owned bookstore). So much fun to promote, so little time!