Return To The Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo

    Exactly one year from yesterday I, with a pile of copies of my newly published book in tow, attended my first author event, the Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo, which took place in the Columbus Suburb of Urbancrest, at the Vaughn E. Hairston YMCA.

  Since this was my first event as a real, bonafide published author (that is to say, published  book author,

  - up until now I'd been a mere published short-story author, my book being the expansion of one of my short stories published years ago in "First for Women"),

...I was soaring with enthusiasm. 
   
    I really put on the dog, as the saying goes, for the event,

...with balloons, pictures, sample pages,

​...free bookmarks and cards,

...donuts in honor of chapter 5, and in honor of chapter 18 chocolate cupcakes, 

​...which I managed to drop on my white blouse and grey pants, but which I tried to be philosophical about, figuring it made me more like one of the  characters in my book to whom embarrassing things are always happening.

     (However I have since foregone offering messy foods at book-selling events, though I continue to offer the rest of the swag items, and have even  added free refrigerator magnets and candies to the giveaways).
      It was also at my first book event a year ago that I was interviewed for the first time on the book podcast yourbookmybook.com, which was at the event doing author interviews.

​   As it turned out, I hit it off that day with the yourbookmybook.com media coordinator, Miguel Lopez.

    And yesterday  when I returned to Urbancrest exactly one year later for this year's Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo,

...I  wasn't there to sell my book, but to interview other authors who were there  selling their books.

​     Funny how one thing leads to another.

To be continued...