It is hard to believe that it has taken me all of April to get the store set up!  Boy was I ever optimistic.

It is Thursday evening and the store is effectively complete.  For the very first time I’m comfortable with what I’ve done.  I hope if you visit you will think so too.

Getting books from the boxes to the shelves was tremendously time consuming.  From the very first box there were decisions to be made.  Where do I put a Travel book?  How many bookcases do I allocate for Romance? 

A couple of the basic questions were easy.  Fiction and Romance will be center aisle starting at the front of the store.  History, Military History, and Military Fiction will be on one side with Non-Fiction, Biography, and the other dogs and cats of the book world down the other side. 

So you know where each A starts.  On which shelf begins the Romance M?  Where do I put the multitude of works produced by Robert Ludlum, Catherine Coulter, or Tom Clancy?  Does all of Fern Michaels’ work Romance?  Or are some straight fiction?  Most books were moved several times before finding their final resting place.  The Historical Romance Writers web page and Amazon.com were frequently consulted.

I worked by myself for the the most part.  Vicky De Serisie helped empty boxes one evening.  Cathy and Len Gafga were kind enough to do some alphabetizing.  My sister did part of the decorating and her husband emptied a lot of  boxes one Saturday morning.  All contributed greatly toward getting the store open.  I sincerely thank them all.  Without their help and encouragement the store wouldn’t be opening this Saturday.

I hope you will find the time to visit.