WALNUT CREEK CONT'D
It turns out that the Walnut Creek B&N that canceled my talk last night in fact received the 40 copies of TSOS on Tuesday but hadn't yet unpacked them. Unfortunately the community relations manager who arranged the appearance was out recovering from a heart attack. The guy in charge in his absence didn't check the stockroom before telling me not to come. No wonder authors go crazy. B&N is relatively well organized for the book business, and this store is ordinarily one of their best.
Again, my profuse apologies to local readers who had planned to attend my talk, and even more profuse apologies to those who showed up without seeing the last-minute posting about the cancellation. I will be at the Stanford bookstore (on campus, not the one in downtown Palo Alto) tonight at 7:00 p.m.