Unshelved's seventh anniversary was last week. Don't feel bad for not calling, I didn't remember either. I just hope that Gene didn't expect me to send flowers.

It's been a busy year. In the last twelve months:

• We exhibited, spoke, and taught at twenty-four conferences, meetings, and classes in fourteen states. I was personally on the road almost three months of the year. That's a record I don't hope to break any time soon.
• We published our sixth collection, Frequently Asked Questions and reprinted our second, third, and fourth books.
• We hit strip #2500
• I stuck with the same laptop (a classic white MacBook) for a whole year and counting
• We held our third annual Pimp My Bookcart contest. To date PMB has yielded over 350 awesome entries from schools, libraries, and bookstores around the world.
• I celebrated my first anniversary as a self-supporting cartoonist.
• Gene and I were rapped onto stage at one of our talks
• I implemented the OhNoRobot full-text search engine for our comic strip archive and you, our readers, transcribed the entire corpus in one week.
• We debuted our "One Book A Day" sponsorship program.
• I started Twittering like crazy, and haven't stopped. Gene also dipped his toe in.
• We hit 25,000 email subscribers for a total of 50,000 readers overall
• I took up the ukulele
• Gene and I judged our first bookcart drill team competition

Thanks for making it all possible. Here's hoping our eighth year is just as awesomely eventful.

Feb 20 morning Spartanburg, SC
Spartanburg Public Library Staff Day (staff only)
Keynote (Gene & Bill)

Feb 20 7pm Columbia, SC
USC LISSA event
Program (Gene & Bill)

Mar 13-17 Philadelphia, PA
Public Library Association
Booth (Gene & Bill)

Mar 30-April 1 Seattle, WA
Emerald City Comic Con
Booth (Gene & Bill)

April 13-15 Chicago, IL
Chicago Comic Entertainment Expo
Booth & Talk (Gene & Bill)