Indies First at Politics & Prose This Saturday!

This Saturday, November 29, I'll be at Politics & Prose Bookstore from 1 to 3 p.m. serving as a guest bookseller. The last time I worked in retail was back in the 1970s at David's Western in Silver Spring, Maryland--does anyone remember it? Near the Silver Spring library? We sold jeans and Frye boots and Stetson hats. I was a student and it was a great job.This time around I'll be helping to sell books as part of a national movement to promote independent bookstores, like Politics & Prose, that are such important members of our communities. It started last year as the brainstorm of author Sherman Alexie. This "Indies First" campaign takes place on "Small Business Saturday," and I'm really happy about that, because it has a far more felicitous ring than "Black Friday," doesn't it?If you're in the Washington, D.C. area, I hope you'll come out to Politics & Prose and do some book shopping on Saturday. Of course I hope you'll come when I'm there--1-3 p.m., in case you missed it a minute ago--but if you can't come then, don't worry! Other authors will be there all day. You can meet Katherine Marsh, author of the fabulous Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, from 3-5 p.m. Are you a thriller person? You can meet David Baldacci, from noon to 2. (Look: we overlap for an hour!) From 4-6 p.m., Dinaw Mengestu will be in the store; his  latest book, All Our Names, enriched my summer reading.Politics & Prose has my books We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song, Dozer's Run, Imperfect Spiral, and The Year of Goodbyes on the shelves. You know I'd love to sign one for you.