Book Event

I had a book event today at Townline Pub & Grill in Howard which is attached to Green Bay to the northwest. This was the first event GBB and I did with this promoter and at first we were not impressed. She said when we arrived that we weren't on her floor plan which I knew couldn't be right because we'd signed up and paid for the spot in June. Turned out there was a Barb who got there before us and hadn't signed up until October 3 so SHE wasn't on the floor plan and got our corner spot. The promoter showed us a couple spots way back in a remote place of the room but we dismissed them as not what we'd paid for. Then I mentioned I'd paid for a corner spot she asked my last name. She'd given our spot to the other Barb but gave us one right next to her and it was actually a better location. So I had a whole table to spread my books out which I liked. I sold six books and may have sold some ebooks. Time will tell. I wish there was a way to sell ebooks at book events. QR codes maybe?

 

The squirrel was back on the birdfeeder this morning before I left for the book event. I can't figure out how it manages to have two paws on the perch and not close the cover over the ports but it figured it out. A Bluejay landed on the back of a patio chair but was gone before I got the camera up, darn it.

 

When I went out before supper to fill the birdbath I noticed that there were colorful autumn leaves that landed on the fern fronds next to the patio door. I was disappointed not to see many leaves changing colors up in Door County last week. A lot of the leaves falling in the neighborhood are brown or pale yellow. Maybe we didn't have enough rain? Maybe it's been too hot? I miss the blaze of colors in the fall sunshine.

Today was the first of a long string of 7 more book events from now until December 14. I'm pinning my hopes on selling a few books at each one. Six was a nice number. One cool thing, a woman called me by name and she turned out to have been a tenant of mine when my parents lived in this half of the duplex, so probably 30 years ago. It was great to see her again, I even remembered her first name (whew!), and she bought a book. I did not order lunch though. What came out into the room from the pub looked and smelled good but after eating all that good food last week I thought it'd be smart to just have my brown bag lunch of a cheese stick, crackers, grapes, and a WW brownie. Sometimes I have willpower.

--Barbara