On Sunday night, I had my first in-store book signing.  It was the most amazing thing - most, closely followed by my first three radio interviews in the last week!

Of course, I used the radio interviews to promote the in-store signings.  While I was signing the books at the book signing, these two cute girls came up to me and we started talking about Twilight and they wanted to buy a copy of my book as a result of their love for Stephanie Meyer's stuff.  I carded them.  It is a "bad" book, after all.  They were thirteen and eleven.  Uh... Hmmm.  OK.  I called over the store manager and explained my quandry - I really want to sell my books, but I'm not sure this is the most appropriate reading material for tweens.  But I really, really want to sell my books.  The manager said I should ask their mom, who was caught up in the mob of people buying books.  She comes over and I explain the issue.  She said she would buy the book, and read it first, and anything she thought was inappropriate, she'd just tear out of the binding.  That would leave her with a dust jacket and a pamphlet, but that was ok with me - it was okay with her, too, so... in the immortal words of Stephanie Meyer's Mormon leader, "bring 'em young."

Oh. My. God!!!

Now, this isn’t the first and only copy I’ve sold.  Don’t get me wrong.  What it is, is, it’s the first copy I sold that I personally wasn’t actually there to sell!  Every other book was bought by someone who knew me or was at a signing and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. But neither of those things was true with this one sale. So, I’m totally psyched!

Here are the names of some people who have been really supportive of me lately - from behind the desk at my local Planet Fitness:

Thanks for the enthusiasm for Bitter Things, guys - and for giving me another reason to get my flabby butt into a gym!

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