At last night’s book signing and reading, I sold out the bookstore’s inventory of WOTF XXI. I brought in four more copies from my car and sold three of them.
Now, lest you think I’m a book-selling machine, I must explain that the Barnes & Noble only had 7 copies in stock by the time I arrived for the signing. (Apparently people were actually buying the book before that without the incentive of getting my autograph.) Still, ten copies sold, three of them to people I didn’t know, made for a successful signing. The bookstore people were very pleased.
The reading also went well. I read three short pieces in half an hour. The audience particularly loved my finale, “Bird-Dropping and Sunday.”
So I owe a big thank-you to all my friends who showed up for the reading and signing.