Where Everybody Knows Your Name
One of the big perks of being a writer is the ability to travel incognito. Unless you're Jodi Picoult or Stephen King, hardly anyone ever recognizes you by name. They might know your book titles, if you’re lucky, but almost never your name and never, ever, your face. Once when I was paying by credit card at a Barnes and Noble in Calabasas, California, the cashier…