OWFI quickie

Wow. What an incredible weekend it’s been. The conference is over and
I’m exhausted. Don’t know if I’ll have any time tomorrow to update, so
I wanted to jot a few notes now.

When you’re a speaker at the OWFI
conference, you’re treated like royalty. It was fantastic. I’m still
surprised people turned out for my two sessions. I mean, I had 30-50
people in each session. My first thought was, “Crap. Of the four
speakers this hour these people chose me and I’m really a nobody.” But
then they’d stop me in the hallways later on and tell me how much they
enjoyed my lectures. I just wanted to say, “Really? You mean I actually
said something useful?”

Sold some books. I’m really not sure how many yet. I’ll figure all that
up tomorrow. Sold more than I expected. I was shocked to see that the
vendor had ordered copies of Shara.
I called that independent bookstore when the book was first released
and they told me they wouldn’t host a signing for a print-on-deman
title. Sadly, several people bought the book from the bookroom, so
that’s money I’ll never see. Not surprisingly, Call to the Hunt was the bestseller at my table, although with the bookroom sales I think I signed more copies of Shara.

At the awards banquet I continued my steak of winning just enough to
recoup my contest entry fee. “The God of Discord” took third place in
the Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror Short Story category. I was disappointed
nothing else I entered placed. I had an inspirational essay I thought
was pretty good. Oh well.

Met lots and lots of nice people and saw many old friends again, people
I only see maybe once a year. There were some funny moments; Gayleen
knows the funniest one.

Must sleep now.