For those of you who have been to the Decatur Book Festival, you know it’s basically Shangri-La for book lovers. It’s one of the best such festivals in the country, and it’s arguably the best when it comes to giving young and self-published authors a chance to get exposure for their work.
On that note, I’d like to announce that I’ll be speaking at this year’s festival, in the Emerging Writers tent, and I’ll also be doing a book signing for “Killing the Immortals,” my first novel. My speaking/signing spots will be either Sept. 3 or 4. I’ll provide an update on that when I know more, but I got it fairly early, so hopefully it’ll come that Saturday morning. I’m not going to be picky, though.
It’s pretty exciting. I’ve been to the festival as a reader a couple of times, and now it’s cool to think I’ll be among those talking about my work and hoping some people are interested in enough in it to buy the book. The Emerging Writers tent is basically a book fair for self-published and small-publisher books. I’ll be among about 2,700 other authors with their work there, so I’ll be a tiny, tiny fish in a really big pond, but there will also be a hell of a lot of fishing poles in that pool. So maybe it’ll balance out.
Of course, the next step is getting my book actually, ya know, published by then. I’m confident enough in that happening that I was ready to make this commitment. I’ll be surprised if I don’t have everything ironed out by late June, with publication after the 4th of July. We’ll see how everything shakes out, but now I have something more than the baseball pennant race to look forward to it September.
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