Nine day notice. I’ll be book signing at Barnes & Noble in Fresno on Sunday, August 13 at noon.
Mainly for “Pappy Butler & His Zero Time Theory,” but I understand that copies of “The Doc” will be there too.
This is either a midway event of the 2017 summer book tour or – as said last week – an early start for the fall tour. I may talk a bit about the books, as they are setting up some chairs in the music/CD area. It is only …. NINE days away from the SIGNING at BARNES & NOBLE – FRESNO, on Blackstone and Nees, by the B of A and Elephant bar..
As for the results of the “A BOOK AND A DONUT” signing event, sales were GREAT, and as good as the BOOK BARN event in July. But, I did more talking about the book to more visitors than at the Clovis Book Barn. The other plus was that the store wanted The Doc books to sell from the “point of sale” counter.
This “THE BUZZ Interview” BLOG that I wrote last week was meant to be posted BY ME that Thursday, afternoon, with a photo, video link or YouTube link of the interview. I never got it posted last week. As it turned out I did not get a video of it. I thought it was a better interview than the one done two days previous, but that was my wife’s impression of my answers. But here is what happened. After the Tuesday interview, I was offered the Thursday interview, and I opted for the “Full Media” package. This was their highest package. The original broadcast time is live and covers a large area of the valley and a huge “antenna receiver” audience. This on KAIL My 7.1, Comcast 13, Satellite 53, and AT&T U-verse 53. This was “live” at 10:00 am and the show reruns at 4:00 pm at the http://www.centralvalleytalk.com, which is the web streaming show.
I thought a disk was being provided because I had checked for that on the sign-up sheet on Tuesday. At the end of the Thursday interview, I was told I could have a disk of it, but that it was for another fee. I declined that and explained that I would have to sell fifty books to break even with full media package as it was. I also explained that I have no idea what the results would be in my sales, or the numbers who show up at the event pitched in the interview as A Book and a Donut for the coming Saturday.
But, I did save it, the interview, at the home TV on DVR, and too, it is going to take saving it on an old VCR tape and then converting that to digital. So, it could not be done for Thursday afternoon.
For a YouTube of the first interview with Mike Scott, here it is again. ..
Perhaps two interviews in one week were too many to blog about.
And on the cost, is this why authors are advised to not pay for ads?
Due to reasons beyond my control, today’s book signing event has been cancelled and rescheduled for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, at the OAKHURST book shop of Branches Books & Gifts……… at 5:00 PM.
Perhaps it will be cooler after Labor Day.
This Friday’s event is still on for 3:00 PM at Madera County Library, if that works better for YOU.
One older blog began with one sentence and was not finished. “Much of the latest focus on author promotions is weeding out “time wasting” exercises in ego stroking endeavors.” That was in may. I had written about it in a blog in last June titled Vanity Event. I wasn’t sure if book signings were that much a waste of time, as was being suggested. The other one, blog, got sidetracked for a number of reasons, but one reason was that I was trying to research the origin of that terms for ego stroking endeavors and vanity event.. And I had no luck in finding the origin. But, I had, subsequently, a discussion with another author about this, and it was a link in that June piece. It revolved around the fact that if you are having a book signing event, that it is an ego and vanity massaging event.
It is entirely possible that the first event one does is a vanity or ego thing. I freely admit it, and that first event. But, if one is shocked by the lack of sales at that first event where you don’t really sell thirty copies, the ego and vanity hit a brick wall. The ice breaking first book signing is simply that, the first book signing. After that, when other book signings are arranged, there is a more realistic view, expectation and, well, work. A signing event leads to discussions, speaking events, interviews, and each of these is growing an audience of sorts. I realize this is addressing having a book in print, and is not addressing the different promotional approach for an ebook – only – promotion. The last words on this, do you think it is a waste of time? I don’t think it is. Keep arranging events.
Timothy J. Desmond
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