Book? What book?

So, after I registered at TechEd yesterday I wandered over to the grandiosely-named “TechEd Mall”, a big plexiglas cube in the CommNet area. The book section was supposed to be substantially larger, and I was hoping to see Secure Messaging with Exchange 2000 substantially featured. After all, I reasoned, it’s from Microsoft Press, it’s about a Microsoft product, and this is the largest Microsoft-centric conference in the world– a natural fit. I slowly cruised by the display wall outside the door, where there were lots of MS Press books visible. Not mine, unfortunately. “Oh well,” I thought. “They must be inside.”
Nope. There were MS Press books in abundance (and a nice selection of other titles from O’Reilly, Wrox, and others), but no copies of my book. I spoke to the (very pleasant) bookstore manager; it turns out that two books didn’t make it here on time for the show– mine and one other. I was pretty unhappy until I learned that the other author’s book failed to arrive after they’d planned a big book signing because yesterday was the guy’s birthday. Ooops. Hopefully some copies of the book will appear before I leave today.