Author Reception at Northern California Independent Booksellers' Association Spring Gathering, April 10.

Photo taken by my first visitor, Carolyn, from A Great Good Place for Books, Montclair.

Photo taken by my first visitor, Carolyn, from A Great Good Place for Books, Montclair.

For the first time, and hopefully not the last, I was on the other side of the table signing books as part of the author reception at the NCIBA Spring Gathering on Sunday. So much fun to share my love of story and history with fellow booksellers. Only in a group of booksellers (and historians) would you get two people walk up consecutively, point to my necklace and say, "Oh isn't that Cernunnos from the Gundestrup Cauldron?"

Setting up

Setting up

My necklace of the horned god taken from the Gundestrup cauldron

My necklace of the horned god taken from the Gundestrup cauldron