Wednesday, June 25, 2008

TEN STRANGE THINGS PEOPLE SAID TO A WRITER AT A BOOK SIGNING

If that’s your real name on the book cover, what’s your pen name?

This is a free sample, isn’t it? (Asked while the writer was inscribing the book.)

Did you draw the cover?

I don’t like books with a lot of words.

Was this book printed, or did they use POD?

Did you make it all up, or did someone really kill you?

I just came to the bookstore for a latte.

I wrote a book once. It was about a duck.

I love books. I just don’t read them.

Did Oprah like it?