The Decatur Book Festival: Our Shortcomings and Our Triumphs

As you all hopefully know, the Decatur Book Festival is this weekend.  First and foremost, yippee!

Just as in the past two years, the Wren’s Nest will have a booth at the Festival, so you should totally drop by.  I believe we’ll be by Church St. on Ponce de Leon. Our booth will be the white one.

Last year Lain drank beer while making Outdoorsman Matt do all the talking.

Things should be similar this year.

Also similar to last year: we will be selling the product of The Wren’s Nest Publishing Co.’s hard work.  This year it’s called Vernacular.

(Note: This outstanding cover was done by a whippersnapper named Zach who totally needs work.  Interested?  Email him here: zach@craftymice.com)

To review, Vernacular:

• is comprised totally of artwork and written pieces by Atlanta-area teenagers
• was edited fully by six teenagers who worked on the journal throughout the summer
• is the only publication created by and for the Decatur Book Festival
• sells for $5, and 100% of proceeds go to ensuring we can do the program in 2009
• is totally awesome, and buying it counts as your good deed for the day

So far so good, right?  We’ve got a booth on a street everyone can find, our literary magazine came together beautifully, and you’re coming by to say hello and buy things.  What could be better?

Well, it would be nice if we had books to sell at the book festival.

Due to our immense and overwhelming popularity (and some guy named Joel Chandler Harris), we’ve been having a lot of trouble keeping some of our most popular books in stock.  It seems like we’re ordering them every few days, yet we’re constantly running out.

The worst culprit is this guy:

(This may literally be the last copy we have.)

We’ve currently got about a million copies back-ordered, but we’re not sure if they’ll make it in time for the festival.  Cross your fingers for us!