If You Can’t Find Tap & Gown at Your Local Bookstore

Option One:

1. Go up to your nearest bookstore employee.
2. Ask them to order you a copy. Leave your phone number. They will call when it comes in.
3. Wait a few days. Then go back and pick up Tap & Gown.

Option Two:

1. If you have a credit card, visit your favorite online retailer: Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, or Indie Bound and order yourself a copy.
2. Wait a few days. Enjoy Tap & Gown delivered to your door.

Option Three:

1. Visit your local library. Ask them to get you a copy of Tap & Gown.
2. Wait a few days.

I know all of these options come with the unpleasant side effect of waiting a few days, but it is much much better than the alternative which is:

Do Not Do This:

1. “I am unable to find Tap & Gown in my local bookstore. I think I will leave the bookstore without saying anything to anyone and hope that they will randomly and without prompting order Tap & Gown in the next week or so.”
2. Return in a week or so to find that they STILL do not have a copy of Tap & Gown.

Bookstores will order you a copy of whatever book you want, if it’s in print and available from their distributor. Tap & Gown, being published by Random House, is both. Here’s some info that will help them find the book for ordering purposes:

TAP & GOWN
by Diana Peterfreund
Delta Trade Paperbacks (a division of The Random House Publishing Group)
ISBN: 978-0-385-34194-3