{"id":262,"date":"2009-08-19T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-08-19T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:15:59","slug":"five-things-i-learned-at-my-first-author-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/five-things-i-learned-at-my-first-author-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things I learned at my first author signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first author presentation and book signing yesterday (and held the finished book in my hands for the first time!  *squee*  Sadly we ran out so I don&#8217;t have it with me any longer, but my official author copies should be coming soon), so I thought I&#8217;d share a few things I learned.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Book people are awesome.<\/b>  (Okay, so I already knew this.  But now I know it even more!)<\/p>\n<p><b>2. It&#8217;s all right to give a talk that isn&#8217;t funny.<\/b>  I was worried my presentation wouldn&#8217;t be entertaining enough, because, well, I don&#8217;t happen to have any really amusing anecdotes about the writing of GHOST.  But lots of people said they really enjoyed it, so obviously that&#8217;s okay!<\/p>\n<p><b>3. There is excitement for teen books with no lovey-dovey!<\/b>  Several booksellers and librarians told me they were excited to hear GHOST focused on friendship instead of romance.  I got more comments on that than anything else about the book.<\/p>\n<p><b>4. It is a small world.<\/b>  One of the booksellers I talked to was from the (not terribly small) town where my grandmother lives, and I commented on that, and it turned out she knows her!  What are the chances?<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Publicists are awesome.<\/b>  Many thanks to Katherine and everyone else at H.B. Fenn who set the Fall Preview up, and invited me to come!<\/p>\n<p>Hope to have pictures to share soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first author presentation and book signing yesterday (and held the finished book in my hands for the first time! *squee* Sadly we ran out so I don&#8217;t have it with me any longer, but my official author &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/five-things-i-learned-at-my-first-author-signing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}