A couple of weeks ago, the ceiling at Sissy's Treats & Treasures fell in. No one was in there, no one was hurt, but it meant a change in our plans. Susan, Colette, Wade and I were supposed to have a book signing there this Wednesday, November 14.
No ceiling, no book signing we figured and arranged to move the event to Don's Quality Market. There's a small lunch room/coffee shop near the entrance and next to the bakery. Coffee and cookies would be served while we sell our books.
I notified all the radio, television, Internet and newspaper media where I had sent press releases. Susan made a note in her newspaper column of the change. On Friday, I walked all over town to find the thirty or so posters I had put up and tacked on a bright yellow sticker that said "Moved to Don's Market".
I just came home from fixing the final poster to get a phone call from Pat at Sissy's. She told me that the repairs are done. They are re-opening on Tuesday. Did we still want the book signing there?
I surveyed the other three authors and we agreed to stay at Don's. It is simply too late to change course yet again. I let Pat know but told her I would do my best to get another book into print as soon as possible. I have three that are very near ready. The first is a romance that I wrote years ago. It's already an amazon.com e-book written under the name Trisha Northland, Yesterday's Secrets, Tomorrow's Romances. I could easily bring that to print though I would first like to make a few corrections. I could get that done in about a week, I think.
I wrote a series of rather odd stories about love that I published in our Black Coffee Fiction blog http://blackcoffeefiction.blogspot.com over the past year. I could publish those stories as Love Through the Decades. It would only take a couple of weeks to do that. I thought I should publish that before Valentine's Day.
Or I could finish the other novel I am currently working on during NaNoWriMo. I planned on having that done by the end of the month. But there would be the final edit and corrections before that is ready plus I will want a friend to read the thing to make sure I've made no glaring mistakes. I don't foresee that being done until the end of January.
So what should I do? Set the last one aside and work on the first or the second? Whichever, there will be another book signing at Sissy's by the New Year.
No ceiling, no book signing we figured and arranged to move the event to Don's Quality Market. There's a small lunch room/coffee shop near the entrance and next to the bakery. Coffee and cookies would be served while we sell our books.
I notified all the radio, television, Internet and newspaper media where I had sent press releases. Susan made a note in her newspaper column of the change. On Friday, I walked all over town to find the thirty or so posters I had put up and tacked on a bright yellow sticker that said "Moved to Don's Market".
I just came home from fixing the final poster to get a phone call from Pat at Sissy's. She told me that the repairs are done. They are re-opening on Tuesday. Did we still want the book signing there?
I surveyed the other three authors and we agreed to stay at Don's. It is simply too late to change course yet again. I let Pat know but told her I would do my best to get another book into print as soon as possible. I have three that are very near ready. The first is a romance that I wrote years ago. It's already an amazon.com e-book written under the name Trisha Northland, Yesterday's Secrets, Tomorrow's Romances. I could easily bring that to print though I would first like to make a few corrections. I could get that done in about a week, I think.
I wrote a series of rather odd stories about love that I published in our Black Coffee Fiction blog http://blackcoffeefiction.blogspot.com over the past year. I could publish those stories as Love Through the Decades. It would only take a couple of weeks to do that. I thought I should publish that before Valentine's Day.
Or I could finish the other novel I am currently working on during NaNoWriMo. I planned on having that done by the end of the month. But there would be the final edit and corrections before that is ready plus I will want a friend to read the thing to make sure I've made no glaring mistakes. I don't foresee that being done until the end of January.
So what should I do? Set the last one aside and work on the first or the second? Whichever, there will be another book signing at Sissy's by the New Year.
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