One of the great indie bookstores in all of Texas (or all of the US for that matter), BookPeople in Austin, has been featuring our little babe Do You Know ... at the front of the store. We heard this from contributor Jette Kernion, who took the snap featured here. Jette writes:

Tons of copies of that fabulous book, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans, perhaps because one of the BookPeople book clubs is supposedly reading it soon. That doesn't mean you can't go buy a copy if you haven't already. It's a beautiful little book with some excellent essays in it (including mine). These books were available on the stand at the entrance to the store.

Why is this significant? Way back in early 2006 when we were planning events for the book, we called BookPeople and they were extremely polite and nice but not interested in the least. We were an unknown quantity and no reviews had appeared, so who could blame them? But it is gratifying to see that now they are giving us prominent play. Persistence, people, persistence.

A sidenote: After being rejected by BookPeople, we held a really nice event at BookWoman, which we thought was a sister store until we were set straight. Thus we now have two good homes in Austin.