With the backing of Pershing Square Capital Management, apparently Borders will try to emerge from their financial woes still intact.  If I am to understand my sources correctly, after some concerns over the somewhat large interest rate attached to the 42.5 million dollar loan, an agreement has been reached.  Even as the loan is finalized Pershing has apparently upped its offer to acquire Borders international subsidiaries.  What does this mean to you and me right now?  Nothing except that our favorite book seller and champion for the underdog for now has a new lease on life. 

With this new information fresh on my mind, I took doll baby to the local mall to get an Auntie Anne’s pretzel.  I love their pretzels and all the buttery fat that comes with them.  Mmmm….yum!  Oh, but I’m getting off topic here.  Anyway as I was sitting in the food court enjoying our warm doughy treat, I spotted a Border’s express mere feet away.  Once finished, we took a stroll into the store where doll baby immediately found about a dozen books she begged me to buy and I scanned the shelves of the romance section for my publisher’s titles.  I found three Samhain books among the hundreds of titles.  Not great, but not bad considering the economy and the fact that this store was in fact an express and on the small side.

After talking doll baby down to just one book (some interactive DVD Thomas the Tank Engine story thing) and finding a birthday gift for a friend, I went to pay where I ran into the store manager and had a little chat.  Turn’s out this Borders is all about supporting local authors and I’ve been told to come back the beginning of May to talk about setting up a book signing for my late May release.  BOOK SIGNING?  ME?  I never thought the day would come when somebody would actually take me seriously and consider me to be a real author.  Well let me tell you, that Border’s store will forever have my business and I for one will not give up on Borders yet!