Couldn't post from SF because my fancy hotel had such a fancy internet-in-your-room system that I couldn't make it work. SF was 3 events in 2 days -- 2 evenings, 1 midday - plus drop-in signings in every bookstore we could find. LA's the same, except 2 daytime, 1 evening. My escort's coming to pick me up any minute. In SF, the 1st evening event was VERY small, because it was the night of the Presidential debate and the playoff game. (Baseball, for those of you on a sports-free planet.) But the store had 75 copies of the book for me to sign, and I had a great talk over coffee beforehand with the manager and mystery buyer, both of whom had liked the book but will now also remember me. Assuming I didn't make an ass of myself. This is why it does not do to be rude to bookstore people, even if they don't get a crowd for you or have few copies of your book. They DO remember you. The other events were bigger, as was the one in LA last night. One interesting thing that's happening is that we're getting to stores that have only 1 book left, or none. These are chains -- B&N, Borders -- that had only 4 or 6 to start with, not independents that had a dozen (or 75). But considering the book's only been out 2 weeks, it's surprising and encouraging that it's selling that fast. It also means they'll order another 4 or 6. If this is happening in all 500 Borders stores, say, that's another couple of thousand books in the first few weeks.