First Library Eventt - Nesmith Library in Windham, NH

Note to self: be a bit more on the ball in promoting events that you're taking part in (I blame this on my at times crippling self-doubt and my fear of turning into the Tooting Your Own Horn type, having endured Very Pushy Self-Promoting from some people).

That said: Today marked my first ever library event with the New England Horror Writers, at the Nesmith Library in Windham, NH. Tiny event, six of us and a local author of children's books. Sadly, I did not take any orders for the one book in which I have a story published, Lovecraft ME, but I got the chance to chat with some local readers, find some new and useful resources for self-publishing, and answer some questions during a teeny panel discussion.

Also, while waiting for my drive home, I chilled at a Dunkin Donuts a few doors down from the library, working on another new story, this time for an anthology of tales set in Salem, MA, featuring some college kids who see some strange things in the old burying ground behind the Peabody Essex Museum (a plot idea which I nicked from Aitch Pi El's commonplace books of unwritten ideas. In a twist of irony, the story is due on the anniversary of the passing of the old gent from Providence).

My display, in one corner of a table shared with two folks: