Book launch went well!
Sep. 14th, 2019 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlSo lo!these many weeks later, I finally had my book launch event. And I'm really happy with the way it went.
There were about 30 of us there including my copresenter and I. No one turned up from all the various ads and promos I sent out to local groups but lots of folks who know me came and that was utterly delightful. (I figure for a first book that's a good turnout; if it's not, let me down gently?) A friend I first met in college even came all the way up from Philadelphia, and crashed at ours afterwards. I'm not on campus on Fridays and she took the day off so we had a chance for some good quality hang time. There were work friends, book group friends, friends from steampunk days, someone from grad school, some folks connected to the church where we had it.
If you're not familiar with Leanna Renee Hieber, check her out. She writes gaslamp fantasy and she's just fabulous. We did a Q&A, more like a conversation, there was plenty of audience interaction, and we each did a very short reading. We held it in a NeoGothic church which was completed in 1838, which was super-appropriate, I thought, for two authors who write historicals set in the 19th century. The pictures -- Marty hasn't edited theirs yet, but a few friends have been putting theirs up on Facebook -- definitely benefitted from the setting. Kris Waldherr, who wrote The Lost History of Dreams, which is this amazing Victorian gothic, brought me flowers, which was so sweet!
And I sold all my remaining author's copies, though now I'm worried that the next set won't be here in time for next weekend, when I'm with the Sisters in Crime group at the Brooklyn Book Fair . . . .
There were about 30 of us there including my copresenter and I. No one turned up from all the various ads and promos I sent out to local groups but lots of folks who know me came and that was utterly delightful. (I figure for a first book that's a good turnout; if it's not, let me down gently?) A friend I first met in college even came all the way up from Philadelphia, and crashed at ours afterwards. I'm not on campus on Fridays and she took the day off so we had a chance for some good quality hang time. There were work friends, book group friends, friends from steampunk days, someone from grad school, some folks connected to the church where we had it.
If you're not familiar with Leanna Renee Hieber, check her out. She writes gaslamp fantasy and she's just fabulous. We did a Q&A, more like a conversation, there was plenty of audience interaction, and we each did a very short reading. We held it in a NeoGothic church which was completed in 1838, which was super-appropriate, I thought, for two authors who write historicals set in the 19th century. The pictures -- Marty hasn't edited theirs yet, but a few friends have been putting theirs up on Facebook -- definitely benefitted from the setting. Kris Waldherr, who wrote The Lost History of Dreams, which is this amazing Victorian gothic, brought me flowers, which was so sweet!
And I sold all my remaining author's copies, though now I'm worried that the next set won't be here in time for next weekend, when I'm with the Sisters in Crime group at the Brooklyn Book Fair . . . .
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