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We got to talking and I said something about being in a fishbowl.<\/p>\n<p>They laughed and I joked about getting a sigh that would read:\u00a0 Talk to the author in the fishbowl&#8230;she&#8217;s lonely.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the time, writers hear about how a lot of people don&#8217;t always buy at a signing, but then they go back and pick up the signed stock the next day. O_O  Why???  Stop&#8230;talk to us while we are there&#8230;pretty please?  We get really lonely sitting in that fishbowl.<\/p>\n<p>Really lonely.  And we (or at least I do) feel really silly sitting there with nobody to talk to and all those shiny books in front of us.  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