This is me trying my darndest to work a book reading at a Borders in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, WA. I should have known I was in for trouble when I got shut down by mall security for hula hooping in the mall’s center. I was informed I was on private property and would need to "take my art elsewhere."

Don, the bookstore manager, was more than willing to let me hoop in the bookstore for half an hour as I desperately tried to attract a crowd to listen to Emerson Robbins and I do our wedding-themed readings. But my hooping and campy veil were unsuccessful. Only Don and Emerson were impressed.

Moral of the story: the ‘burbs aren’t quite ready for my literary jelly.

That said, I had a nice time with Don, Emerson, Emerson’s wife, and some wonderful ladies who are organizing an indie craftster wedding show next year. So it all worked out ok, just not in the way one might expect. Oh and my hometown reading at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge was a raging success, complete with singing. More pictures of that later.