Time, but glad to be here. Im also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. Turn your cell phones off, please. Thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors. We need to do that in every session, because they are soan important to the success of the fair. So big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody whos in thisr room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all thee activities that are available for friends during the year. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. [applause] okay, thanks so all. [applause] we have a big crowd, so let me start by introducing our authors introducer. She has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the Miami Book Fair since the very first year. How many of you are founding book fair friends . Anybody else been around as long as marcia . A few. Okay, good. A