On Saturday I did a signing at the BookShelf in Ogden. For the first time ever, I had someone waiting at the store for me to sign — that made me feel like a famous author.
Overall, the signing went very well — eleven books sold in two hours, which tops my previous record of ten. Of course, it helped that the store was selling Writers of the Future, Volume XX, for only $1.95. Since the BookShelf is a used book store, I believe Galaxy Press sent them remaindered copies of that one so they could sell them at a price more in line with expectations for used book customers. Even so, I sold five copies of Volume XXI at the full cover price.
After my previous experience with a signing at a used book store — at which I would have signed no books had the store owner not asked me to sign one — I didn’t have much in the way of expectations for this one. But it turned out to be one of my best signing experiences.
The people at the BookShelf were all very friendly, and the store seems to have a huge collection of not only used books, but used movies, CD’s, and videogames. So if you’re in the Ogden area, I recommend them to you.