My First Signing – Shadows of the Highridge
Written by the illustrious Jay Swanson
Vandalizing Books Since 2011
While I’ve signed books before, I’ve never been invited to do so by an establishment that I hadn’t broken into. Until now. My first signing happened at Auntie’s Bookstore this weekend, and we had a blast. The preparation that went into this was similar to the conventions that I’ve done, just with stress of a different variety.
What I don’t go into in the vlog below is how everything that could go wrong effectively did, and still, somehow, it all came together.
The artwork you see hanging behind me (albeit briefly) was, as of last Tuesday, still in Minneapolis. Missing. It took a series of phone calls over two days to find it – the hotel I’d left it with never got it on the FedEx truck as promised. Once they found it, they expected me to arrange pickup remotely (and if you’ve ever arranged pickup remotely, for something you’ve already printed labels for but that they have no record of, you can imagine how much fun this was).
My printer also informed me they were uncertain the books I’d ordered for the signing would make it on time.
And then I found out I’d never actually purchased tickets to fly to Spokane in the first place.
Thankfully it all turned out splendidly:
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To top it all off, a fantastic review by Timothy Ward came out the same day on Shadows of the Highridge.
I sold 20 books (sadly I didn’t have copies of Into the Nanten on hand, otherwise that would have been a bigger number), signed up a bunch of people for my newsletter, and had some really good conversations. All in all it was a great first signing – I would love to do it again.
A huge thank you to Auntie’s for inviting me, to my parents for receiving the mountains of books that arrived and transporting them downtown, and to my sister for taking footage the whole time (which will show up in something later). Thank you to everyone who came down, said ‘hi,’ and bought books!
For the rest of you, don’t worry, you can pre-order Shadows of the Highridge off Amazon right now (and will be able to buy it off my site here soon too).
After you read it, if you’d leave reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, it would do a world of good. Stay tuned for more good stuff!
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