Images from the FABA Fair

Here are a handful of images from Flordia. The first two are of the booth, right and left sides. We did not ship shelves down and...well...forgot to order them. Luckily I was able to borrow two from Steve and Edie across the isle.

Note the nice pipe and drap. This was, I am quite certain, the best run show we have done. It was relatively inexpensive per booth, yet they were absolutely on top of the look and feel of the show and PR.

second ad for the fair. They seemed to be on top of every aspect and everything seemed toI was watching the Discovery channel in the hotel on Friday night and was stunned to see a 30 run very, very smoothly.

They even circulated a nice survey on the final day covering everything from the "what could be better", "what worked", etc to getting a sense of sales and feedback that undoubtedly will help them in marketing efforts next year.

We are already signed up for next year (having spent three years on the wait list) and are genuinely looking forward to it.

The next image tries to show the venue as a whole. Arced ceiling, nicely strung lights, very festive. The hall was built for Big Band concerts and is really quite lovely. There are alcoves lining both sides that are used for either one or two dealers as well. It is a simply great hall for a book fair.

The final image is my Thing One in Assistant Mode. He was a great help this fair...and when not helping, he either read or (more likely) played game boy (I am reasonably certain he could be on fire and not notice while paying with his DS).

I'm spending the next week or so cataloguing a handful of new items that I hope to have at the New York fair. I'm already getting excited about NY (and Boston the following week).