Signing Books and Hoping ... 

Signed forty books for a local Maine  book store today. Always a pleasure to do that, trying to imagine the people who will buy them and read them and get from them --- What? 

From the reader comments I've already received I'm encouraged to assume that the folks buying those copies I signed today will find "very good writing" ... "thoughtful and insightful" .... "stories of your TV years, the people and places and lessons learned, as well as your creating new and unique lives on the small island enthralled me all along" .... "Rapturous." 

Not all, to be sure, but some of the readers of those copies I just signed, I hope, will finish the book with feelings like those. And I hope some of them will tell me.