You’re Invited to My First Book Signing Event

BOOK SIGNING INVITATION

 

Even if you don’t plan to attend the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity conference, you can still meet me and all the other attending authors and get our books.

 

September 13, and again September 14, from 5pm to 6pm we will participate in a mammoth book signing at

 

The Hunt Valley Inn

245 Shawan Rd

Cockeysville, MD

 

With me will be all the writers who will be speaking at panels during the conference.  That means more than 30 authors in one place, showing off our work and signing our books that you pick up at the conference bookstore, run by one of MD’s finest bookstores, Mystery Loves Company.

 

This is your chance to get autographed copies of my books, plus books by international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and other mystery novelists; NY Times Bestselling author John Gilstrap and other thriller writers, NY Times bestselling author Christopher Golden and other science fiction, fantasy and horror novelists; and bestselling author Trice Hickman and more writers of suspense.

 

Check out the impressive list of writers who will be there for you to meet at

 

http://creaturescrimesandcreativity.com/?page_id=10

 

And mark your calendars for this once in a lifetime opportunity! I look forward to meeting you!

 

AFTERTHOUGHT–What am I going to wear? Do I need a professional new hair-do? Naw. I’ll be me and you’ll be you, and we’ll have a great time!

Everyone Thinks It’s So Easy

Perhaps to a select few, authoring a good book is easy–or at least that select few make it seem effortless.

For the rest of us, it is agony. First, we anguish over getting the manuscript on paper. Then we slave over editing. Next comes marketing, which, for the first novelist, means telling everyone we know, back to the boy who pulled our braids in sixth grade, that we have a book out. Trying to appear professional,  we plan to avoid begging, but we beg anyway for someone to buy our book. Finally we sit with angst waiting on the first book sale, then the next, and next. We give ourselves ulcers.

And if the book doesn’t sell, we are crestfallen. Aunt Linda said the book should be on the best seller list. Cousin James said he would buy a copy, then didn’t. Our best friends are avoiding our calls. We line up a book signing–and no one shows up.

Somehow, this doesn’t feel  easy.