My first book signing

Friday, June 14, 2013 was my first book signing. It was an overwhelmingly positive experience. The people at The Doylestown Bookshop and Krisy Paredes in particular made my visit there great.

Many of my friends and family came to the event and the show of support was very gratifying. I even sold 15 books including 10 of Rome's Revolution alone! But the biggest surprise of the evening was the number of people, old and young alike, who stopped by and expressed interest in my books and their longing for more science in their science fiction.

I cannot tell you how musical that was to my ears. To have a 13-year-old beg his mother to buy my book because it had science in it gives me hope not only for my fledgling career as a science fiction writer but for the nation as a whole. I thought that with the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social media the day of reading books was drawing to a close. If my experience at The Doylestown Bookshop taught me nothing else, it is that books and readers are still coming.

Awesome!

P.S. Thank you to my wife Denise, my daughter Paula, my incredibly talented brother Bruce, Linda Young, Sarah and Daniel Macias and my stepson Perry for standing by me. And thank you to Kenny and Penny Robinson for their surprise visit. And a great big thank you to Glenn and Risa Neiman for putting the wheels in motion leading up the book signing in the first place.