Midnight launch

[raven]

There are no spoilers in this post. Please do NOT post spoilers in the comments.

This is me after four hours of work and four glasses of wine, after two hundred people, rampant disorganisation, people queueing around the shop and all the way down the street, hot dogs and Hogwarts hogroasts and the police wandering in to find what on earth was going on.

This is me holding the very last Harry Potter book in my hands, and with no time to read it yet!

These were the boxes as they arrived.



The door, and the posters we made. Possibly we were the only bookshop in the world to have allied with a butcher's for the midnight launch. (All the butcher himself wanted paying was his own book.)



The shop. The aim of the game, bizarrely enough, was to get the balloon over the tube light.



The window, which did look rather nice.



I have always loved this.



The staff, in what costumes they'd managed to muster up.



And why I hate my workmates Quite A Lot.



And that's all you're going to hear from me for a while. I don't have time to start reading until tomorrow night, so I think I shall be absent until about Monday. See you all then.

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

:)
Enjoy!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

ack I have over six hours yet! Commence impatient flailing! :) I'm killing time with a movie first, then heading to the bookstore. Wish me a swiftly-passing evening until midnight!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee! I'm about ten pages in, and so far it's worth the wait. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I will! *g*

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

Kib wants to know: do Ginny's boobs play a prominent role? If not, she has been stuck with a Fake Internet Text OMG.

Enjoy! :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Tell Kib I think I love her, and so far nothing about Ginny's boobs, but I am only on page 44. *g*

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Of all mission statements, your bookshop's is the one which inspires me with the most confidence in the establishment.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

The best thing about it is that it's actually a paraphrased quote from an irate customer. The man was very, very angry at the time. :P

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

She apparently read FIFTY PAGES of this dreck before finally concluding that it was an impostor. So I think it's safe to say that if there are no boobs in yours yet, you're safe.

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Your mission statement sounds perfectly glorious; also, I need this book now. As in 'this minute'. Curses.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I have finished the book, and await the chance to discuss it with you.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* So many people admire it that we did a full-size version for the window. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

ME TOO. I AM BROKEN INTO WEE PIECES.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Are you around for fannish chatter and crying of alas-alack this afternoon, tonight, and/or tomorrow? If you are, I will call.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I am in the evening, so do call!

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Will do, probably 7:30 or 8pm ish.