How To Make A Myth of Yourself in 2012?

A PS to my last post on authors behaving badly: here's British author Isabel Losada, who just set up camp for a week in the window of WH Smith's in Paris, round the corner from me in Rue du Rivoli, to promote the French edition of her book.

Not that I'm suggesting Ms Losada was anything other than well-behaved. But I just can't see Simone de Beauvoir doing that.