How a Debut “Nobody” Landed a Live Event

I’ve been a self-published author for all of one week. When you are a debut author with hardly any sales and only a few reviews, you are not exactly first in line for glamorous bookstore events. I proved that the traditional way. I approached a local independent bookstore, offered my shiny new novella, and asked if we could do a signing about six weeks out. In book event time, that is like asking someone to plan a wedding by next Tuesday.

They said no.

Here’s what I did.

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