We are about to enter a restaurant for lunch when our next destination Title Waves calls us to rush to the store because a buyer has asked for 30 copies of Letters to Self and the store is worried that there will be no more copies for me to sign by the time I arrive, so can I please delay my lunch break? We get out of the restaurant and rush to the store but the buyer of the 30 copies was in a tearing hurry and left the book store. We are disappointed but the store manages to arrange for another ten copies and mercifully the signing event is accomplished without complications.
Some readers are waiting for me to sign their copies but my mind is jogging. The journalist in me was curious about the mysterious man who purchased bulk copies and did not wait for the author signature. I ask the team to investigate and we are surprised he not represent a political party, rather their company celebrate events distributing book to their guests. What a wonderful thought. An author writes close to 50,000 words for a book but do that many people buy his copy? No, because everyone wants to read borrowed copy. Art, theatre, dance and books need patronage and unless we do that collectively we cannot grow.
To be continued…