"You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." Ah, Bilbo, who would know better than you?

I stepped out the other day, as promised, and dropped The Blind Pig off at the library. Then I decided to wander by my local bookstore Jeannie's Book Emporium. There I found Jeannie, doing what bookish people do:  reading. I asked her to consider stocking my book. She declined. Business isn't great for bookstores these days. All the benefits ...