"We need bookstores now more than ever," said author Bob Johnson as he launched his debut short fiction collection, The Continental Divide (Cornerstone Press/Univ. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point), at Fables Books in Goshen, Ind. More than 60 people attended, and the store sold out of his books. Johnson graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop years ago, but stopped writing for many years while he worked as a high school teacher and then a TV news producer. After he retired, he began re-dedicating himself to writing and now, at age 74, he's published his first book.