March was a busy month for us with BLF presenting books for the first time at the Paris Book Fair. Four days, 200,000 people. It seemed like they all stopped by our stand at least twice !!! (Some of them really did.) Our booth, tiny compared to the big secular publishers', was very popular mainly because we had the Manga artists from Japan autographing their books, the Manga Bible.
The artists drew crowds
And TV and radio stations
Philip taking orders
And translating (into English, not Japanese)
Stéphane came from Switzerland
And even Mélanie helped out for a day.
Time to tear down and clean up
And while the artists were busy drawing away, the kids and I were "busy" babysitting in Japanese. The kids definitely think we should adopt ! Luka, the son of the one of the artists, went with us to Paris, but then wanted to go back to "France." France for him meant life on the farm with lots of "brothers, sisters, dogs, cats and pony." Forget Paris !
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