for more information visit le r lemur lemuriabooks.com. >> 20 years ago in june of 1989, a small, new, unknown and since bankrupt publishing company published a small novel about an unknown author from mississippi. 20 years ago. the book was "a time to kill". at the time, i wasn't starving but i wasn't prospering. i was practicing law in a small town in mississippi and dreaming of a better life. i didn't have any money but i had more than my publisher. they printed 5,000 hardback copies and i bought a thousand of them. mike scheme was simple. i was going to sell them at retail. are always going to have a big book party in my home town. this was the town i grew up in. i went to college, law school, came back to my home town. the town elected me to the state legislature. i thought i was pretty popular. my wife was there, her parents were there, family and all that stuff. it would be a huge book party. at the local library. we actually halt 1,000 books to the local library. if you have never seen a thousand books stacked up, we have photographs of our two small kids climbing on copies of