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Continued Insanity
Jun. 12th, 2006 04:10 pmOK, I managed to get organized from the trip (laundry done, paperwork catch-up done, etc) and get back to writing today. Or as my partner calls it: "slugging." He still doesn't believe writing is work. (He's only teasing me, since he took a job that requires he go to an office.) So, first a quick report on the Colorado trip, and then the update on the writing.
Colorado was fun in the sense that after the hours upon hours of grading every day, I could totally veg out and not worry about anything but playing games. Seriously. I played Ticket to Ride: Marklin pretty much every night with assorted friends and new acquiantances every night I was there. After food of course. I also used the opportunity to expand the set of people who have seen/heard/know about my book. I did a signing, which was a total bust: only one person showed and he didn't buy the book. However, I grew some cajones after that and started setting up a little pile of books with a sign next to the gameboard in the lounge area where I played and after that I managed to sell 12 books. Not bad. In the process, one guy mentioned that his daughter worked for a newsletter thingie in San Francisco and ordered books for stores in the area . . . so I gave him my card and he said he'd pass it on to his daughter. He came back shortly after and said he'd talked to her on the phone and she wanted a signed copy of the book. She'd never heard of me. *GAH!* So hopefully she'll read the book and start ordering it for whatever stores she orders for. And perhaps something will appear in the newsletter.
Overall, the trip was good fun. Got to see some people I only see once a year, got to spread the word about Skewed Throne (a spike in sales at amazon also followed my return so . . .), and it was all free. In fact, I got paid to do it. That never hurts.
The only bad thing was that it took a solid 10 days away from writing book 3. Oh well. I'm back at it now. Still no idea what's supposed to happen in the chapter I'm writing, but I did get chapter 2 started. Here's the update:
Vacant Throne
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authorm, where are you at?
Colorado was fun in the sense that after the hours upon hours of grading every day, I could totally veg out and not worry about anything but playing games. Seriously. I played Ticket to Ride: Marklin pretty much every night with assorted friends and new acquiantances every night I was there. After food of course. I also used the opportunity to expand the set of people who have seen/heard/know about my book. I did a signing, which was a total bust: only one person showed and he didn't buy the book. However, I grew some cajones after that and started setting up a little pile of books with a sign next to the gameboard in the lounge area where I played and after that I managed to sell 12 books. Not bad. In the process, one guy mentioned that his daughter worked for a newsletter thingie in San Francisco and ordered books for stores in the area . . . so I gave him my card and he said he'd pass it on to his daughter. He came back shortly after and said he'd talked to her on the phone and she wanted a signed copy of the book. She'd never heard of me. *GAH!* So hopefully she'll read the book and start ordering it for whatever stores she orders for. And perhaps something will appear in the newsletter.
Overall, the trip was good fun. Got to see some people I only see once a year, got to spread the word about Skewed Throne (a spike in sales at amazon also followed my return so . . .), and it was all free. In fact, I got paid to do it. That never hurts.
The only bad thing was that it took a solid 10 days away from writing book 3. Oh well. I'm back at it now. Still no idea what's supposed to happen in the chapter I'm writing, but I did get chapter 2 started. Here's the update:
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8,325 / 100,000 (8.3%) |
Vacant Throne
PS--
authorm, where are you at?
