Butterflies the size of pterodactyls

Exposure is good. All indie authors need venues to promote their work and their brand. Book Festivals are a biggie.

Tomorrow's Baltimore Book Festival feels like it deserves it's own 'What We Think' poster. The kind that shows what:

my parents think it will be like - hushed crowds lining up to meet the author ,

what my husband thinks it will be like - sitting with my feet up, sipping lemonade and schmoozing,

my friends think it will be like - me gazing starry eyed at regional author celebs *they're not too far off*

I hope it will be like - steady traffic and sales pushing triple digits with someone I don't know staying through my 15 minute reading

I worry it will be like - desert at my station and even the family won't stay for the reading.

Damn the pterodactyls, full speed ahead.

*... and a nice bottle of chardonnay chilling against my return*