Vox Populi

Yesterday I trudged to the FED_EX store to mail copies of SWANN SONGS to Goodreads winners.For once I was minding my own business, quietly stacking books in a pile for mailing. No good comes from passivity.

FED_EX CLERK: (Looking at the cover of SWANN SONGS).” Did you write this?”

ME: (proudly)-“Yes. It’s the 4th in the series.”

FED-EX CLERK: “Hmm. Looks like a romance. I have friends who read that stuff. Intelligent women too!Can’t understand it.”

ME: “Actually the book is a romantic MYSTERY. Basically a mystery with a pinch of sex.”

OTHER FEDEX CLERK joining in: “Only a pinch? Too bad.”

EVIL FED EX CLERK: “I love mystery books but not something like that. Covers with that bare-chested guy….”

ME (w/ some asperity).”My books do NOT have Fabio on them.”

OTHER FED-EX CLERK: “Too bad.”

Next time I’m going to the US Post office. They IGNORE you.

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