We didn't abstain to say 'don't come,' but just because we don't have what we need on the books. We're not saying everything has to look like the Joseph Kershaw house. Heck, no, but the answer isn't 'it's out on I-20 so it doesn't matter.' That's our door to Camden -- it matters more than anything.

The problems is this. We have to go with what is currently on the books, the ordinance. That's our manifest, our boundary.

Many towns are realizing the future is in the past. When people buy older houses, they have an interest in being a steward of part of that house's history. ... Keeping areas attractive is important.

We try to deal with small publishers who aren't well known. These are wonderful books, but you'll never find them at B. Dalton or Barnes & Noble.

Amazon sends us an e-mail, and we send the books directly to the customer.

Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a novelist – as long as you don’t entertain people of course. I sometimes think,’ said Ivo, his eyes like industrial diamonds, ‘that my sole virtue is, I’m the only person in London who has no intention of writing any kind of novel, ever.