NCIBA Update

This weekend is the Northern California Independent Bookseller's Association (NCIBA) trade show. This year, the show floor was a little smaller than in the past, but despite the loss of real estate, the traffic was pretty sparse. It's always a bit depressing when there are more exhibitor badges walking around than attendee badges.

Amazingly, however, we took three book orders today-- a record! One of them was from a new customer, too, so I already feel like the show was a success. Plus, there will be more children's bookstores and book buyers tomorrow because the children's book author breakfast is tomorrow, as well as most of the children's booksignings.

As a bonus, I got to meet Gene Yang this morning and he signed a copy of American Born Chinese for me. Stay tuned for a review of this interesting graphic novel.

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