Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Roberts and as always I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the elusive Saturday

Edition of the yard I wanted to record yesterday just did not have time to get it done and then when I got home I had things that had run down for

visitors and things like that and so yeah so here we are right you're getting your show you're not going get an abbreviated show. I'm going to give you the whole dope today. I want to thank everybody that came out to Lemery your books yesterday. Man, what a great signing it was. And you never know what these weekday signings, right? Because, hey, if it's Saturday at one or Saturday at two, people are off, moving around, doing their Christmas shopping.

And so I wasn't sure what you'd expect on a Friday at noon. And many of you just phoned in your orders and said, hey, I'll just pay over the phone and pick it up on the way home from work. So as soon as I get there, I'm automatically signing books, right? And so you love the pre-sales. and then the thing about it was then we had people that came

and bought like multiple books like you had like the pool purchaser like hey I'm here to get

everybody at the office's book and yeah we had a really good day and had to restock the

miry inventory before we left pretty much sold everything they had I think they were down to like

three or four books and so that's been replenished so they have I don't know maybe 25 signed copies

there and they'll do our best to restock next week too because I figured the weekend will be big

because you always get a little you know carry over after the signing there'll be people that will show up and think okay well there are signed books here typically they're signed books everywhere typically we try to get the bookstore signed books because uh you guys want them and it's so funny i remember in the beginning when i wrote flim flam people like hey i want to get a signed copy i'm like why do people want my signature on this but it is important

it is and I do my best to sign as many of them as I can that's the thing if you if you have a copy of flam flam it's unsigned you probably bought it to Amazon yeah we don't send them signed books and in a matter of fact we don't do Amazon some of our vendors do it but we don't do Amazon but later today I'm on campus bookmarked from one to three

so get out and come be a part of Some of our vendors do it, but we don't do Amazon. But yeah, later today I'm on campus bookmark from one to three.

So get out and come be a part of that if you're in town doing some shopping.

So it's always exciting to see you all.

But yeah, great day at LaMaria.

Lamaria books, man.

I've told this story, I think, with you guys before.

When I was a kid, growing up in South Mississippi,

in Columbia, Mississippi.

I was born in Canton, one of the last babies,

I think, born in Madison General Hospital.

A few years later, they quit doing babies there,

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