His Favorite Author
By J.M. Snyder
Jimmy Rivers sits at the end of a long table in the back room of a bookstore and feels slightly nauseous as he watches the chairs in front of him fill up with an audience. Women mostly—he’s surprised to learn how many of his readers are women, older than he is, many mothers with children in tow. If too many kids come, he has an excuse to read the tame excerpt his publicist provided. She always pushes him to read the racy one, but so far he hasn’t gotten up the nerve. Bad enough he’s signing copies of a book that discusses his s*x life in no uncertain terms. He doesn’t have to stand in front of a crowd and read from it out loud, as well.
The book in question rests in front of Jimmy, well-worn and dog-eared, his excerpts marked so he can find them easily
