Monday, October 17, 2011

AUTHORS FEAST

Have you heard of an authors feast, but had no idea what it was? Same here. But now that I've been to one, I can tell you all about it. Authors lie naked across a banquet table, and booksellers eat food from your body while you tell them about your current book.



Wait a darn minute.


I'm not sure that's right. I think that was a dream. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a dream. Okay, scratch the naked on the table part. Now I'm sitting fully clothed at the table. Booksellers around me. They eat while I talk about my book. (All attending authors are fed before the event. One author to every table.) After ten or fifteen minutes, we're told to change tables. An escort leads us to the next table where we are surrounded by booksellers and we tell them about our book. After ten or fifteen minutes, we're told to change tables and we do it all over again. I'm guessing there were twenty to thirty tables at the event I attended in Detroit (GLIBA, Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association). Each writer visits three tables in all. It took me one table to really get into the groove. Sorry, first table. I couldn't quite grasp that I was supposed to do almost all of the talking all of the time. That seemed rude, but by my second table I understood that this is all about sharing my book with booksellers. It sounds weird, but it was actually very nice.

4 comments:

  1. haha! You scared me there for a minute. Sounds like it was a good time!

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  2. It WAS fun. A lovely group of people.

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  3. Wish I had known you were 30 minutes away.

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  4. Patti, I definitely thought about you, but I was only in town for what seemed like a few hours. The pace of the tour hasn't left room for anything but events. t arrived in the evening, attended the feast and a signing, then got up at 4:30 am to get to the airport by 6:00 for another event in Minneapolis. Denver was the same thing. It's so fast. From airport to event, back to airport.

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