My Creative Consultant made her first appearance at the fair. Unfortunately, she was not able to stay long and meet many of you, but she is going to be around all day tomorrow and Saturday.
Someone, please, find for me a statistic that proves that extreme heat causes a person to forget things. There has to be a statistic for this because I really want to believe its true. Is there something wrong with that? I only mention this because there were several times during my eight hour shift at the fair today that I tried to strike up a conversation with someone who had either been there on a previous day, or who had already been by earlier in the evening. Oh, but I did remember alma mater mom. Although after I said “Hi <x> mom”, I realized that I had missed X’s name slightly. It’s the heat! I know it and someone is going to give me a study that proves it. Right. Someone. Anyone.
We got to visit with some old friends. I don’t mean they were old, necessarily, I mean that I had known them for a long time, but that it had been a while since I’d seen them. So, maybe that does make them old. If it does, it makes me old too.
There was no clear winner tonight of the “What type so of books do you like to read?” question. The closest we got to a unique answer was one individual who explained to me that they enjoyed historical fiction. I know this is a popular genre for some, but as for me, I like history. I really do. I also like fiction. I like it so much that I’ve chosen that as my writing platform. But for some reason, if you’re going to look at history, look at history. History in and of itself is very exciting — for the most part. Adding fiction into the mix just muddies the importance of the events of history that the fiction is hung off of. #EndRant
I did meet one young lady today that didn’t let me get past my opening description of the Guardian of the Silverwood book, before she had it in her hands and said I need to buy this. I honestly didn’t know how to respond. Don’t get me wrong, it was very cool and I was encouraged by it, but it really did knock me off balance for a second or two.
I’ve already mentioned in the last couple of updates about aspiring new authors. Today I not only got to meet a woman who was working on a gargoyle series, but I also ran into a budding young filmmaker. It was very neat to talk with both of them and I wish them well in their endeavors.
Tomorrow’s the big night — Friday. If you’ve been by and haven’t gotten your copy of Guardian yet, I’m down to 4 copies. I’m overwhelmed by the amount of support for series that I’ve received and I had no real expectation to sell as many as I have. If you happen to miss it tomorrow, I promise to hold over the Fair price including FREE shipping until I can get a new batch printed and delivered over the next week or two.
Good night everyone. I look forward to seeing you all at the Fair!
