Busy prepping things for the writing seminar I'm conducting at the Oak Park Library this Monday, October 22nd at 4pm. I'll admit, I've never done anything like this before, but I think it'll be a fun experience for all involved. I'm grateful to librarian Stuart Sturton for giving me the opportunity to do this: we met during Free Comic Book Day over at Liberty Comics, and he immediately gave me his card and suggested I contact him to organize an event of some sort. I was hoping something like this would happen last year, when I donated a half-dozen copies of Swords & Sixguns: An Outlaw's Tale to various libraries in Macomb County, but no one ever got back to me. Obviously, I should've crossed the border into Oakland County, then maybe Stuart and I could've met sooner!
Not sure how many folks will be showing up: the library can only advertise the event "in house", so to speak (i.e. no buying ads or contacting reporters), and though I set up an event page on Facebook for it and tried to get a little press on my own time, it's hard to tell how much attention that'll bring. But as I told my mother-in-law last night, I don't care if only one person shows up, I'll just talk directly to them. On that note, if you know anybody in the area that's just getting into writing or self-publishing or anything along those lines, send 'em my way Monday afternoon and I'll talk their ears off...and yes, I am selling books afterward!
