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Saturday, December 03, 2005

brain dead in a good way

Just got back from The Book Ladies in Corona CA, which is about 500 miles or so south. Boy, I feel like royalty. They picked me up at the airport and gave me a ride back, too! I sold 19 copies of A Darker Crimson! I'm still mulling over the experience, because it was a retail eye opener for me. Yes, 19 copies of my book were sold and I signed that many, but only one or two were in person. All the rest were either pre-orders or phone orders. Yes. There was a stack of books for me to sign when I got there, names indicated, and then the phone would ring and one of the Book Ladies would come around with a slip of paper with names on them for use to personalize the autograph. This tells me they have awesome service, and they hand sell. They know what their customers like, too.

I can see how compelling that can be in an area that's traffic congested. There are towns here that would be 20 minutes away if there were no traffic. But it's 45 minutes. It's horrible. I never go to those towns. Traffic is turning California back into the never-leave-the-village of Medieval Europe (says the woman who flew 1000 miles today.)

I got some good work done on chapter 3 last night. Few words, good progress. I have to get up early for soccer games tomorrow... I was going to work tonight, but I'm bushed. I left the house at 7:45am got home at 7:15pm. Urk. Tired. Have headache.

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