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Sorry for the super last-minute notice (because I know y’all work your weekend schedules around what I’m doing), because I just found out about this event yesterday and they managed to fit me in anyway, but:

I will be at the Read Local Author Fair at the main branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library THIS SATURDAY, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. I’ll have all of my books with me except for Searching for Malumba. It’s a quick event, free to the public– as far as I know, you don’t even have to have a library card– and featuring a couple dozen other local authors in addition to me!

(In fact, I got added so late, my name’s not even on the list. I promise I’ll be there, though.)

If you are nearby you are commanded to come. If you aren’t you are also commanded to come. So I’ll see ALL OF YOU there, right?

I’m going to claim this is in no particular order, but I know I won’t be able to resist trying to make it somewhat organized:

Nail down date for store signing
(Definitely) Prepare/order signage for signing
(Definitely) Prepare/order free give-away bookmarks for signing
Reformat Skylights paperback so that people like the font. Do this without changing the page count.
Make the Skylights cover look a bit better
Order a crapton of copies of Skylights for the signing
Figure out what a “crapton” actually entails, attempt to be realistic so I don’t lose a ton of money/have a thousand copies floating around my house forever
Format Sanctum ebook
Format Sanctum paperback
Order a crapton of copies of Sanctum for the signing
Again, figure out what a “crapton” is
Oh, finish final draft of Sanctum
I probably ought to reread it first
Finish the book I’m reading so I can read my own book because I can’t handle reading two fiction books at once
(Maybe) Prepare/order coupon cards for Free Comic Book Day if it turns out the signing isn’t on FCBD. (Bring the card back for 50% off on a book!)
Add a page for Sanctum to the ebook versions of Benevolence Archives and Skylights, resubmit both to various ebook retailers
Also, supposedly there is still a spot in BA where I refer to Remember as “he”; find that and fix it
Marketing
Open a PO box
Get mailing list up and moving
Possibly order a register iPad stand for signing so that I’m not handing people my phone, which seems like a bad idea
Oh, buy a stylus
Get all of this done on the rapidly-dwindling number of weekends I have between now and D-day, because I seem to not be able to do serious work during the week lately