My First Author Event and NaNoWriMo

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to participate with an author event with a few other authors. The premise was simple: we came, customers came, we sold, we left. Easy? Yep. Here's how things went:

My girlfriend and I arrived pretty early and entered the Catlin House in Scranton. It a big, beautiful Victorian style home that has become one of the sites of the Lackawanna Historical Society. The person in charge came to see us at the door and I gave my name. That's when they realized that several people weren't showing and the table arrangements would be by first come-first serve kind of... Yeah. You get it.

So, I sat down and let Jess set up my books and help me because I have the spacial decorating skills of a cactus. After that, we realized I had nothing to really promote myself, no take aways like business cards.

Where my advantage came in was... Well, she walked through the door. An eccentric young woman was seating at my table and she introduced herself as Samantha Warren, a speculative fiction author who was far more experienced than I. She had similar materials to mine, but also came with candy, a spiderweb table cloth, and the attitude that I lacked.

Long story, short, I learned a lot from her and the other authors. Heck, I even managed to scare a potential customer off! (By over elaborating my overall plot. Jess says I'm too wordy, I... agree.) Made some says and signed some books.
Thanks to everyone who came to visit me, especially my author buddy, Catherine DePasquale. She got a new copy of Regolith and had me sign that and an ild copy of Rising Seas.

The OTHER big news is that I've decided to try and participate in the National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo in short. My third novel in the Storyteller War is my submission of choice. That means I get to write a book with minimal notes in a time limit that has yet to threaten my integrity. FUN! I'll keep posting about that as I work on it.

With my participation in NaNoWriMo, my new project, and my lack of hidden info, I probably will not do anymore blogs on Regolith since it was released. I'll just move right on to A.D.A.M.
So, keep checking back for A.D.A.M. and have fun!