Thursday, October 11, 2012

UNCHARTED at the Warner Fall Foliage Festival


Well, it’s been nearly a week since I attended my very first book signing! I would have reported back sooner, but to be honest, I’ve hardly had a chance to catch a breath since we landed in New Hampshire and it has taken a few days for the fog to clear from my head.

I have to say, the whole event was far less nerve-wracking and a whole lot more fun than I had anticipated. I arrived at 11:00 in the morning and hung around for 5 hours. The weather was even so cooperative as to stay warm and hold off on rain or wind until we packed up just after 4:00. Unfortunately, I have only one picture to show for the occasion—it seems that both Todd and I ended up talking with people nearly nonstop since we arrived and forgot all about pictures until family showed up! And so, I present to you my daughter, her husband and our grandbabies! No time (or presence of mind) to pose for that picture, but I do like how someone holding the book showed up on the right hand side of the photo and I love the intent look on my granddaughter’s face as I interact with a new reader!

A bonus to doing a book signing—one I had not anticipated—is receiving feedback from a reader—an older gentleman—who took the time to look me up online and drop me an e-mail. He said that he ‘had finished the book and loved it! He said he doesn’t read romance novels very often but he asked his wife to read it also so they can discuss it!’ It doesn’t get much better than that for me!

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  1. Awesome feedback! So glad the signing went well. I was thinking of you all Saturday. What a lovely picture!

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    1. Thanks Liza. Can't wait till the day you have your first book signing! Now that we are back east, maybe I'll even get to attend! ;)

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  2. Oh, what a lovely family you have. Those grandbabies with all that luxuriant dark hair! Neat picture too!

    How nice to hear from a reader who took the time to write to you. Validation is always sweet!

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    1. To be honest, I wasn't really into the "Grandma" thing at first, but the older they get the more I love them to bits! And they even seem to like ME! lol.

      ...and yeah, I'm still grinning from the feedback. Made all the angst worthwhile.

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  3. Love the pic! Your daughter looks just like you! And your grandbabies (I still can't believe you're old enough to have them!) are so beautiful!

    I'm so glad everything went so well for you. And that feedback was amazing.

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    1. Yeah, I joke with my daughter about cloning gone wrong in the petri dish! She's a great daughter and a wonderful mother--so proud of her.

      As far as the signing...you know how relieved I am that it's over.

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  4. Congratulations on successfully navigating your first book signing! (See what I did there? Navigating? Yeah, that's why I don't get asked back to nice places.) Glad everything's going so well, and that's a fantastic email. It must be a great feeling to win over a reader who doesn't normally read your genre.

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    1. Hehehe--Oh, you are a clever one with all your nauticalness! :)

      The kind of funny thing is that the story isn't really a romance, per se, though I guess anything that has kissing in it translates as romance in the mind of an 'older' gentleman. :) ...and yeah, it is kind of romantic...

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  5. That's so very cool....someone holding up your book in the corner of the photograph. Book signings would scare the hell out of me but it sounds like you not only survived but excelled. Congratulations.

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    1. Thanks, Yvonne. I guess I was more scared of the idea--the unknown--than actually doing it (Todd makes me braver than I actually am). As well as it went, it did wear me out, as I knew it would. For me, it's not just a one-day event.

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  6. How absolutely wonderful that it turned out so well! I'm so excited! It's a wonderful thing to get feedback from readers after a signing. I've had that happen, as well, and it still fills me with a warm glow. Congrats!

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    1. It is pretty cool to have received such immediate feedback--helps to level out all the ups and downs of 'big events'. :)

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