experience covering this location or the other. i was just saying to someone before the event started on this particular tour we had 40 some odd book signings and events and only one of them has been in a chain bookstore and i am very happy about that. [applause] chains are important to me but independent bookstores are more important to me. the independent bookstores are like my route 66. bookstores are like those monotonous turnpikes, interstate highways. i have to take them but i prefer to be on the old road, the authentic, the personal. tonight i m in the unusual position of presenting two books. not just davy crockett but while west 365 from abrams. another brand new book and the real issue. my rascal son in the center, pretty boy, charles austin floyd. it is not brand new. it was published many years ago but has been out of print until now all, until now meaning my original editor robert wilde, the best nonfiction editor in the country moved from st. martin to norton,