The Post-Signing Calm

My first book signing is now in the history books. It went very well and I was quite pleased with the turnout. I sold 30+ copies of Dawn's End and perfected not only my autograph (which started out fairly subdued and graduated to more grand swirlies as the night went on), but my "To Reader," banter. I feared that it would have too much of a high school yearbook feel ("Have a nice summer!"). Hopefully there weren't too many generic comments handed out (I honestly can't remember at this point), and if there was, I apologize. I'll do better by Book 2.

Again, I really wish I had the luxury of a publicist. My calves and arms are sore from all of the heavy lifting I did picking up book boxes, drink cases from Costco, and the like. It doesn't help that it's June in Texas. For those of you who are unfamiliar, that means upper 90 degrees. Basically the temperature of hell. No one's impressed with a sweaty author I'm sure, but I think I dried off before the guests arrived. (The pictures will tell I suppose. I'll post some soon.)

The guys at Austin Books & Comics were incredibly helpful, especially Trevor. They were very accommodating in helping us set up and get ready. Then they just let us do our thing. Of course, some of my book money went right into their cash register afterwards. It was new comic day after all.

To all who came out, thank you so much for the support and for buying the book. I hope you all enjoy it.

Now, I enter the next phase of the plan: Marketing to people I don't know, and begging publications to review it. But more on that later...