This past Tuesday I did a reading at Kepler’s Bookstore, my local bookstore.

Most of the crowd was family and friends, Peninsula School people (Peninsula is pretty important in my family’s life), or people from my in-laws’ retirement home, so it was a crowd that was definitely on my side.

Nonetheless, I put plenty of time into the reading, and took it seriously: it’s the first of a number of bookstore appearances we have lined up over the next few weeks (the other scheduled appearances are visible on this Google calendar), and they’re worth learning to do well.

The reading went well– I was engaged, people responded well, they laughed at the right places– and we had pelnty of time for questions. The one thing I really need to learn to do better is answer questions briefly, and especially to answer broad questions briefly: I tend to want to be thorough, or at least stream of consciousness, in my answers, when I need to do a couple sentences and leave it at that.

There was also an amazing cake. Really phenomenal.

Afterwards I signed a bunch of books. I’m not very fast at signing books, but no one had to wait too long.

Now on to the next reading, at Town Hall Seattle!