It's Kalamare, chapter and verse

Published on December 3, 2008

Benjamas "Kalamare" Patcharasri has been plugging her book "Mare-la"

all over the place since it came out in late September, even on the TV shows she hosts.

 She's been doing the rounds of the bookstores, and on Friday she's going to match her "previous best" by hitting three shops in one day - this time three branches of Nai-In.

 The fruits of her labours: three reprints in a little over two months, and a jaunt to Chiang Mai for some relaxation.

 But there she was in a nightclub, ready for some dancing, when a young woman on the tipsy side came up and said, "Phi Kalamare, I really love your book! And guess what - I just got dumped by a man!"

 It took Kalamare about two seconds to map her escape.