Stop staring, please!

:) I don't really know how to put this... I think I'm feeling a little lost...

People ask about my book, buy my book - heck, the first month was better than I thought! But yet, people don't talk about it. I guess that's fair... why should they talk before and around me, but could they at least tell me that they hate my stuff?

I think getting people interested and them buying the book is a lot easier than them actually saying anything about it. I don't think I'm imagining things.

I have a friend for example... ever since he bought and assumingly read the book, he's been acting differently about me. People stare at me and I... don't know what to do with that!

Fine. I wrote a book. You can buy it everywhere on this planet, but please! Don't put me higher than I should be. I'm not out of reach, especially if the story/idea - whatever you want it to be, sucks. Just tell me, please!

First Book Signing

It's funny. I have my first book signing tomorrow night. Its going to be in a place I've been many times before and never thought that this would be the place were I would display my books for the first time...

Big deal. :D Who goes to a book signing with not even 20 books at hand? I should be fine, but I feel rather stupid about the entire thing. There haven't been any comercials... well, I guess that's fine. It's the first one and I can't expect too much. I may be lucky to just sell two books and have people look at my work at all.

Anyway. I will also be at Connetic-Con in Hartford in July and my Manager at work is in the middle of planing an appearance through Shaw's Supermarkets... XD... what writer does that? Supermarkets?

But hey, I think it's exellent publicicity. People don't always come into a book store to buy things, but just to brows. In a grocery store, people are prepared to spend money...

well, I'll see how things are going to be going...

putting the book on hold

Putting the book on a hold - I think that is one of my smarter ideas concerning my story this year. I will put a two month hold on it over the next months, because there are just too many mistakes in there that shouldn't be.

And I'm not talking about little grammer problems, which will stay for the sake of the stories sound, but the serious lack of words, usage of totally wrong words or wrong tenses.

One of the best examples that have to go is in chapter 31, where Philip tells Steris :"So far, you have not tried to kill a person dear to me or myself..."

Or in the Epilogue, when Kalif sees everything around him transform :"Kalif watched the happenings around him with lightened, but otherwise calm."

Me or myself? Lightened - what?
What in the world was I thinking and writing instead?

Well, it is stuff like that that just has to go and I think it's worth the $200 it will cost me. Plus, I believe as well that I will have more confidence in everything when I know that mistakes like these will not be in the book anymore.

I'll probably offer the option of exchange from the first copy for a new copy of the book, if that should come across from anybody who had bought the book in its older form.