Book Fair Goer Mugs

Two very deserved cocktails in the Piazza Maggiore after day one of the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Victor Hugo

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

Reading my Critics

"I try to write a little bit every day."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'Okay, on the count of three we fight back. One. . . Two. . .'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

So You've Cloned Yourself

Meet the author

"There goes our early night."

'Gifted class, indeed. One is gifted in science, but he can't read - one is gifted in reading, but won't even try math...'

"We'd like to publish it, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in less than a month."

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

Learn yourself English.

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

The Month of August

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Clara had come a long waw from those readings at the public library.

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Book market

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

"Good evening. In today's top story, my book has jumped to Number Three on the best-seller list."

3:00 pm - Meet the author

"Right here's the problem, apparently you have a novel in you"

Author book signing 'Wimpy Kid Diary'!

"I just got a huge advance for my first novel. It's about a writer who gets a huge advance for his first novel."

Bookski Inc. Das Kapital. Sorry, Mister Marz, but we can't give you a big advance just because you need it.

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