Libraries and other stuff…

Two days ago I found myself at Book Expo America giving a talk to a room full of librarians. There were a panel of writers – the lovely Ann Brashares, author of Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (and most recently My Name is Memory), Cory Doctorow, Anne Fortier and Rachel Vincent, and an awful lot of librarians.

I love librarians. I have given talks to librarians before, and let me tell you, they're not nearly as strait-laced as you might believe. In fact, meet them out of hours, and you'd...