Last night's event

Sold a few books. 

Brought:

Apollo and Hyacinthus

The Portrait

Please Come Again

Chimera

Over Her Head

Sold all but one title. And it was the book people looked at the most: The Portrait.

Crazy.

Also, gave out 80 business cards, which I love. Met a lovely neighbor table person, Liliana Provencial. She's easy to adore.

All in all, I give it a 7.

What I took in was a few things I'm going to use this coming Saturday, August 1st, at Red Dirt Romance Book Event. 

Will have a sign up for newsletter and ARC readers. Giveaway basket. Some reviews for my books. 

Favorite things from last night:

"They're all so different!"  Talking about my variety of titles.

"I love Greek mythology."  Let me introduce you to my Plot Twist series.

"This sounds so good!" Referring to each title at different points in the evening.

"Are you on Kindle?"  Yes. I surely am.

Also learned:

Never doing another night event.

Never doing another second floor event.

BLESS the young man who helped carry my seven totes and cart up and down the damn steps. May karma give you a massive kiss. You were the sweetest soul.

Today will be working on graphics and verbiage for my ailing website. Needs a good revamp. And I need to keep up with it. 

I write.

I've written, to publish, since 2005. I put together a website. I started a blog. I was committed to it. 

A fire burned my home to the ground in 2006.

I started over.

But it's hard to set aside the time when you work forty hours and commute an hour a day. A million issues with the loss of the house and several relationships.

Moved to town. A hundred and six more issues. Not an ideal time to work on writing. Dedicated myself to my kids and job.

Fast forward myself to now. I write full-time. The game is completely different. You don't send SASEs and receive form letters shoved back in them. Most use query tracker (I LOVE QUERY TRACKER), and it's all online. 

Need new website, blog, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, FB page, etc. It's crazy how much as changed (good or bad) and how much has evolved for the better.

Googled myself today. The first site to pop with my name is LinkedIn! My website IS in flux as my tech mistress is working on a brand new site. 

Sites in order:

LinkedIn

Amazon Author Page

Simon & Schuster Author Page

Goodreads

ThriftBooks!!!

InmanBooks

Twitter

That floors me. Truly. Need to work on raising a couple of those sites in the results. I feel my website needs to be in the top spot with Amazon and Simon & Schuster right below. 

Goals.

Always writing*