So here we had an indie bookseller whose shop was pretty new; a soon-to-be indie bookseller whose high school English teacher was in a book club with the existing bookshop owner; a writer whose debut novel ended up being a great read and whose sister is the uber-famous “tween” writer; a local music store owner who’d recommended Blue Elephant Book Shop to me; and his daughter, an avid reader whose favorite author’s sister was standing right. next. to. her.I have told that story many times myself as an example of the wonderful encounters that make bookselling so entertaining. I always add one detail that Janet omitted; the review of Susan Rebecca White's book was written by my friend Gina Webb . I think these sorts of experiences as being the flip side of six degrees of separation—i.e., six degrees of connection.
—Laura
