Since I wrote my last post about going to participate as an exhibitor at the Ventura County Author Book Fair last Saturday, November 5, I thought I'd follow up with some observations. The Good Things · I sold seven books. · I gave away lots and lots of bookmarks. · Many people shared their stories of suicide and mental illness in their families when they came by my table, and I got to tell them about the Putting A Face On Suicide project when they admired Paul's poster. · I was at a table at a good location in the room. It faced the center of the room, I felt sorry for the folks who sat at the room's perimeter and had to face the wall. · I had a successful reading I spoke about the book briefly, read the piece about comforting someone who is grieving, and I read five poems · I met some wonderful authors one who works in oncology who told me a statistic I never knew, that many people who are diagnosed with cancer commit suicide. So she took a lot of my … [Read more...]