2pm, Sunday, February 15th, 2004:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Kevin Andrew Murphy signed and discussed their articles in Seven Seasons of Buffy, a media-related anthology in trade paperback from Benbella Books.
2pm, Sunday, February 15th, 2004:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Kevin Andrew Murphy signed and discussed their articles in Seven Seasons of Buffy, a media-related anthology in trade paperback from Benbella Books.
6-8pm, Saturday, October 11th, 2003:
ElizaBeth Gilligan signed and read from her recent fantasy novel, Magic’s Silken Snare (in paperback from DAW Books).
6-8pm, Thursday, October 9th, 2003:
Cory Doctorow read a new story and signed his new collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More (in trade paperback from Four Walls Eight Windows) and his debut novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (in hardcover from Tor Books).
![Cory Doctorow explaining digital rights. [digital photo by Lori Buschbaum]](http://portablebookstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/0310doctorow300.jpg)
1-3pm, Saturday, May 10th, 2003:
John Ringo signed and read from his new novel, Hell’s Faire (in hardcover from Baen Books). With Berkeley’s no smoking in a retail establishment regulation, John wound up signing books out on the sidewalk.
Feb 24, 2003:
We arrived to find that some kind local vandal kicked in one of our front windows. Fortunately nothing was taken and, more importantly, Shagrat stayed in the store.

Marginal small businesses cannot afford this kind of extraordinary expense. We did find an outfit which was able to replace the large plate glass sheet within a day, but it wrecked our cash flow.