Appleton on 6/27

I’m doing my first book signing on Saturday in Appleton Wisconsin at a place called The Book Store. Isn’t that a great name? I am feeling many things about this. Excited, nervous…okay so maybe it’s just two things. I have no illusions about having dozens of people come to see me or anything like that. I am a very unknown author. I would genuinely be excited and happy just to sit at a table for the allotted time looking like a weirdo and then to go home, because then I’ll have done it. I will have done a book event. It’s the beginning that’s scary for me. Always has been. The feeling of anticipation has always made me more nervous than the actual doing of the thing.

When my family went to Disney I was a teenager (I can’t remember my exact age at the moment) and we went on the Aerosmith ride. It was loud and had lots of rushing wind and as I stood in line for forty five minutes I actually got so nervous that I actually teared up a little bit. When I got on the actual ride…

I LOVED it.

It was fast, exciting, but did not do any of that upside down bullshit like other rides (it had loops from what I remember, but it wasn’t like, constantly upside down for several minutes, correct me if I’m remembering wrong) and it was awesome. I still think about that ride and I have not gone on a roller coaster in at least a decade.

I hope you can come see me if you’re in the area, maybe i’ll convince you to give my stories a shot.