author fair times

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 So I did my first author fair today.

It was at the library I used to work at, back in college; drove about an hour to be there, brought at least one copy of each of my books (man, this shit is hard when you have 30+ books), brought about six copies of SKWC and six copies of Guillaume, naturally, and I sold twelve books. Add the five books I sold to coworkers the week before when I shared the post about the author fair on Facebook and they wanted to buy some, I made like, $155.00. That's taking out what Amazon charges for author copies, naturally. 155 dollars and a box of books in the garage. 

This doubled what I made from my books this year. This surpassed last year. I still need to figure out if my one Square payment is going to transfer automatically at some point or not. I talked to a lady who was looking for a book for her teenaged child who was clearly genderfluid or transgender or something (she didn't seem to know) and she was curious about Serial Killers With Cookies and I mentioned that there was a trans character in that one and she bought it immediately, so good job small-town North Dakota mom. 

But no! It was interesting. It was fun. It's amazing how much profit you make off of each book when selling them in-person as opposed to Amazon. Damn.

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