So, I’m having dinner with family friends a few nights ago, discussing the book with a couple that read (and loved) it, when out of nowhere it’s suggested that I speak at their next Rotary club meeting. Two days later. At seven in the morning. “Absolutely,” I said, no knowing what Rotary was all about, or why in the world they would want me as a speaker. With no time to write something up, I let a few ideas percolate over the next two days and decided to speak extemporaneously.…
Tag signing
Signing books and meeting people.
Two signings in the last two days (and two more over the next two). Seventeen books signed and sold, and some very interesting people bumped into. There was the lady that showed up today with a pad of paper covered in sticky notes. She was running errands for the elderly lady she cares for, and one of the stops was to come and pick up a signed copy of this science fiction book the Pueblo Chieftan mentioned in yesterday’s paper. She’s a retired physics teacher and an avid reader. I…
Happy Halloween!
How scary is that?! Today I’m off to the Boone Mall to sign some books with a few other authors. We’ll be giving away candy and terrifying children. Probably more of the latter than the former. This really is a pretty frightful day for me. Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. I’m going to participate this year, which means 50,000 words written over the next thirty days. Normally I wouldn’t sweat this feat, but I’m not quite done with the draft for book three, which has prevented me from…
Home again.
I just arrived in Monroe, North Carolina, my childhood home. Sitting at the dining room table of my father’s old farm house, a place where I spent many meals reading the book in my lap while we ate our meals, it seems a bit surreal to think of myself as a writer. Maybe it’ll take a few more books before I can. For now, I’m still just a book nut who managed to cobble a few of his own words together. Tomorrow morning I’ll be on the local radio station…