Mystic Pizza comes to Tell-Tale Books

Ah yes, one never knows what will happen on a daily basis at my store. One day I have a religious zealot wanting to "save me," (yes, yes, I am apparently in major need of saving. Woe me.) A few days later (today, in other words) two women come in offering up books their mother wrote back in the early '80's. She (the mother) was a middle-aged model who helped set the standard for middle- aged women in the modeling world.

So anyway, the women are interrupting one another, talking over each other, chatting away with me about the lack of ethnic food in these parts (ain't that the sad truth), and then one says, "We're from California; we just returned to Pomfret to clean out our mother's barn which is full of these books."

"Oh," I say, struggling to think of something to say in return. "What part of California are you from?"
"L.A.," one replies. This doesn't surprise me. They are very "L.A."
"And what do you do out in California?" I continue.
"We're screenwriters."
"Really?"--And now my mind is working-- "What sort of screenplays do you write?"
One says, "Mainly comedies. You might have heard of us; we wrote a little film called 'Mystic Pizza.' "
"Ohhhh!" I say, more intrigued. "Really! That's a great film," and I mention how the main character in that movie has the same name as I do--Kat--which they get a kick out of.

So the conversation switches to writing, and naturally I mention how Jon is a published author, and tell them what he's written. Never hurts to drop some good PR his way--one never knows who THEY know, right? Well, of course their cell phone rings at that moment, a reminder that they are late for lunch with relatives, so they bid me much luck with the store and leave in the same puff of whirlwind high-energy that they arrived in.

Could Brian Dennehy be my next customer? (He does has a house in Woodstock) Stay tuned...

-Kat