Book Tour Ups and Downs
Posted by Robin Hemley on April 16, 2009 9:04 AM
First time authors always want to go on tour, but that's not always the case with seasoned writers. I love going on tour though I've had a few rocky book signings in the past. When my first book appeared, a collection of stories titled ALL YOU CAN EAT, a bookstore in Charlotte, NC decided to set me up in the middle of the mall in roughly the same place you'd expect to see Santa around Christmas time. I was an unknown writer with a collection of stories sitting at a table with perhaps three hundred copies of my book. I looked as though I had been put in Author Detention. People passed by quickly. Curious children stole glances while their parents tugged them along. Finally, a woman stopped by and gingerly opened the book. After glancing at it for ten seconds at the title, she looked up at me.
"Will this help me lose weight?" she asked.
"Definitely," I said. And I made my first book sale.
Leave a comment