First bookstore sighting

My brother Matt called me yesterday and told me he'd spotted FAKE at the Barnes & Noble on Sunrise Boulevard in Citrus Heights, outside Sacramento. I was shocked. This was the first I'd heard of an actual copy of FAKE residing on the shelves of an actual bookstore.

Since I wasn't far away, I rushed over to see it. I wish I'd had a camera.

As thrilling as it was to see it on the shelves, though, I was a bit dismayed that the store only had four copies (this is my home town, after all), and the book was tucked away in the "true crime" section, rather than on display up front on the "non-fiction new releases" table.

I hope they'll order more when they learn the story got a lot of local press.

After a few phone calls I learned that it was the only bookstore in town to have it in stock. Apparently a few Barnes & Noble stores have it around the country, but most don't. And no other bookstores I called had it.

So the book is just starting to trickle into brick-and-mortar outlets. It is, apparently, being shipped by most online outlets.