The 40th Miami Book Fair ended Sunday evening, after thousands of visitors from around the world came and enjoyed beautiful weather, great music, exhibits of every cool thing on this planet, and readings by authors we all know and love. I worked our booth, the South Florida Writers Association, with displays of over 50 books written by our members, including Sea of Tranquility: A Literary Anthology compiled from contributions of poetry and short pieces members contributed for a trip to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex. It was fun working with Don Daniels setting up the booth, and sharing space with Gladys Barrios, C.V. Shaw, Regine Fisher, Anita Mitchell, Ramesh Nyberg, and others to promote their books and encourage new membership.

And you know what? There was no Protest Against Books organized by those who prefer Banning Books to reading them. They would have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for literacy over ignorance. You don't see Ugly People standing outside Beauty Pageants complaining. Same here.