Book Expo rocks!!!
And here I thought I was done with book-signings for this first volume of Kyle’s B&B. Yet this turned out to be one of the funnest and wildest appearances so far! As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Book Expo is the big annual event in the book publishing industry, where all the publishers and many authors converge in one location for a giant enormous weekend long festival of all things literary. Being that it was being held in NYC this year, my editor at Kensington arranged for me to do a book-signing appearance at the Kensington booth on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 pm. I arrived with some trepidation….after all, virtually all of the book-sigings I have done so far have been in gay venues, and also, this would be a crowd where they weren’t necessarily coming to see me. There were lots of big time authors scheduled to be here, (this is the same event where, a year or 2 ago, Bill O’Reilly and Al Franken got into a shouting match while making appearances). So, I wondered if anyone would be interested in getting a signed copy of Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast, with everything else going on there that day. Well, they were interested! A surprisingly huge amount of people came up to get a book signed, and this was really fun meeting people who’d traveled there from all over the country, many of whom read Kyle’s B&B in their local gay papers. I also signed copies for gay authors Greg Herren, (who was about to do a booksigning, too), and Jay Quinn, author of Metes & Bounds, a book I absolutely love! He was so friendly and sweet, and what a delight to find out he’s a fan of the comic strip! I can’t wait to read his new book that’s coming out this month, Back Where He Started. So, yeah….I’m glad I went. And I have to send a big THANK YOU out to John and all the folks at my publisher Kensington Books, who made this all go so smoothly and wonderfully. This day ROCKED!!!
