Mystery Writers Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

MWF is on Twitter. Follow @MystryWrtrs for forum tweets. See who we're following.

collapse collapse
* Search



* User Info
 
 
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

* Who's Online
  • Dot Guests: 36
  • Dot Hidden: 0
  • Dot Users: 0

There aren't any users online.

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Live from a Waterstones...  (Read 7425 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Andy Connor

  • Cub
  • *
  • Karma: 4
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 17
Live from a Waterstones...
« on: August 25, 2011, 05:38:44 PM »

A little while ago the local writers' group I belong to put out an anthology of writing.  As part of the promotional thing I managed to get the Chairperson in contact with a local Waterstones manager, and eventually things got booked and we were on for a reading.

However, the turnout was not good from the public, and apart from the local press, I was wondering where else we could have advertised such an event.

It wasn't helped by the fact that three doors down from the shop were a bunch of musical chuggers doing overly loud Karaoke (which I am sure is Japanese for Tone Deaf Drunk With Microphone) and I feel we could have shifted a few more copies than we did with a little more planning.  So, suggestions welcome!
Logged

B L McAllister

  • Ink-Stained Wretch
  • *****
  • Karma: 32
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,390
Re: Live from a Waterstones...
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2011, 10:01:14 PM »

As far as I can tell, there's a large element of chance involved in the matter of turn-out at a signing or a reading.  The more of them one has, the more likely that one or more will turn out to be "successful." (Quotation marks needed: if nobody at all shows up, it wasn't a success--but wait 'til next time! If at least one does, remember that success is a relative thing.)
Logged
Byron Leon McAllister.
Books by Byron and Kay McAllister can most easily be obtained as e-books or in print from the publisher at http://www.writewordsinc.com/ For "Undercover Nudist," the print version is an improved version of the ebook version. The others are the same in both formats.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
 


* Calendar
April 2024
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 [18] 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

No calendar events were found.

Paying the bills...

* Forum Staff
admin Bob Mueller
Administrator
admin MWF Bot
Administrator
gmod MysteryAdmin
Global Moderator
gmod laurihart
Global Moderator

Page created in 0.027 seconds with 45 queries.

SimplePortal 2.3.3 © 2008-2010, SimplePortal