The Disability Fair hosted by life coach Brandi Dawson-King was AWESOME!! I sold 7 books, but even better I got the hook up with some great contacts including one that will lead to an interview with Columbus Urban Connection and another that may turn out to be a prosperous partnership with a syndicated radio show host who supports independent authors. I'll be talking to him in the coming weeks about some other projects he wants to start and needs help with.
The most lasting moments I had though was when a visually impaired man [my now good friend, Willie] and I was cutting up. He said that he was looking forward to Mocha Chocolate: Taste A Piece of Ecstasy [which will be in audiobook form! by the way]. When I told him Mocha Chocolate may be too hot for him, he asked me had I seen Ray (the movie) and then he started feeling up my arm like Ray Charles. He had me cracking up. The table for the blind and deaf was beside mine and they were happy to hear that my next book would be in audiobook form, as well as print.
30 people signed up for my newsletter!! And overall, it was a prosperous event because of all of the networking and the ability to support a worthy cause.
I finally got the chance to meet Mashawn, founder of SBS Book Club, who was supporting authors like no one else at the fair today. She had to have had at least 20-30 authors' flyers and books on hand today and I won her book raffle, which was 100 dollars worth of books, so you know I'm in book heaven right about now. Yay!
Until next time, keep reading...and I'll keep writing ;-)
Shani
