| took another
whole bunch of photos and IMMEDIATELY Federal Express them to her.
Adina also wanted anything else we could find that would illustrate
to her why Maple Street Children's Book Shop is special (like, what
could we find?), and she wanted almost all the books we had related
to Cajuns, New Orleans, and streetcars. So Cindy sprang back to
action by borrowing a Polaroid from those nice folks at the Camera
Shop, taking another 50 or 60 pictures of everything photographable
inside and outside the shop. |
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A few days
later, Cindy was single-handedly dealing with a surge of customers
(who, true to form, turned out to be very nice, understanding, patient
people) when Adina called on a conference call with three plot-writers
who wanted to "pick her brain" for a possible commercial.
This migraine phone call yielded the idea to use a story-telling
or author-reading scene, and a request that Cindy IMMEDIATELY measure
every room, every door, and every window and to include which direction
the windows faced (not an easy task for those of us who think in
terms of: "Well, it would look out at the river if about ten
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