Book bag FAIL: that was a close call.

I am returned from a fan convention in Washington, a trip to my dear publisher Soho in New York, and a stock signing at the ever-friendly Mysterious Bookshop.  Many wonderful and exciting things happened in the last two weeks, but here I'll mention something that happened at the very end.  

I acquired a few books while I traveled, as you might imagine.  Here is the state of my book bag when I picked it off the carousel at Sydney airport.


If that last little piece of fabric had failed, all the books would have been scattered across three airports and two continents.

2 comments:

Sarita said...

Well, the folks that load luggage on to the planes are nicknamed 'baggage smashers'.

Gary Corby said...

Hi Sarita!

Yep. My guess is the bag got caught in a machine somewhere along the line.

It's a small miracle the books weren't hurt.