Simon Van Booy

If you are in the Raleigh area this coming Wednesday night (6/17/09), please come to Quail Ridge Books at 7:30 and hear Simon Van Booy. His new book, Love Begins in Winter, is as fine a book of stories as you will encounter. And if it weren't enough that he is a brilliant writer, he is very easy on the eyes, as you can see from this excerpt from an interview with him:

Simon Van Booy

If you see me there and I looked dazed with admiration, please nudge me so I will at least close my mouth....