The Love Books Festival, featuring…Me.

tyunglebower ♦ August 7, 2024 ♦ Leave a comment

In a month, will cross the river out of Maryland and into nearby Lovettsville, Virginia, where I will set up my first ever author booth at my first ever book festival.

Called the Love Books Festival, it will feature about 40 local authors for signings, workshops, and lectures.

I myself will only be selling and signing books this time around. Paperback copies of my latest, The Rubble and the Shakespeare, as well as copies of The Beacons I See. The former for 10 dollars a copy, the latter for 5 dollars. (As it is so much shorter.)

As this approaches, I have spent more time, thought, and energy on marketing than writing. For example, this sign I had made:

I’ve also bought a few other decorative knickknacks that convey imagery from the novels to spruce up the table. I’ll share some of those in a future post.

And though in comparison to most authors I have spend modest money, it is by far the most I have ever spent on any one promotional/marketing concept in my career.

I even picked up one of those devices that lets you scan a credit card on your phone, for those who want to pay me that way. (And let’s face it, in 2024, that is probably most people now.)

More than a few times, I have mentioned here on the website that my marketing instincts are somewhere between small and non-existent. A lot of my ideas have come from looking at other author’s set ups in different places.

The best manner to sell is probably through talking to those that visit my table, and by word of mouth.

Or, in this case, mentioning to all of your that is you are local to Lovettsville and are free sometime on September 7th, stop by my table at the festival. Be a part of history by being at my first ever such event!