{"id":286,"date":"2014-10-14T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=286"},"modified":"2014-10-14T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:48:42","slug":"bookstore-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/10\/14\/bookstore-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past year, I&#8217;ve concentrated on attending conventions, mostly science fiction literary conventions and comic con\/media conventions as a vendor. \u00a0I set up my table and talk to the people who walk by, browsing for everything from jewelry, to artwork, to costumes. \u00a0I have neglected my bookstore signings, which I enjoy just as much. \u00a0Bookstores are sometimes different. \u00a0Since you&#8217;re an attraction, there&#8217;s a little more opportunity for special presentations. \u00a0Rather than catching the eye of a random browser, you can expect some people would be interested in more details. I have a couple of presentations that I&#8217;ll need to upgrade before the next signings. \u00a0Good ones have been about the what makes a book series, particularly mine, like the <strong>Small Towns, Big Ideas<\/strong> and the <strong>Project Saga<\/strong>. \u00a0At a vendor table, I have to boil things down to a couple of sentences. \u00a0At a booksigning, I can do a longer, more organized look at what I&#8217;m doing. \u00a0Check the calendar, and if I&#8217;ll be in your area, please come and visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past year, I&#8217;ve concentrated on attending conventions, mostly science fiction literary conventions and comic con\/media conventions as a vendor. \u00a0I set up my table and talk to the people who walk by, browsing for everything from jewelry, to artwork, to costumes. \u00a0I have neglected my bookstore signings, which I enjoy just as much.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/10\/14\/bookstore-signings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookstore Signings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}