Book Launched! Passage of the Kissing People is a Go!
The book launch party for my novel 74th Street Productions threw 4/25 was beyond my wildest dreams. I hoped for 50 people to show up at Razzi’s Pizza(high fives to them). They gave us their newly renovated basement, and we needed every inch of it. It was a dismal night, rain blowing sideways, and a major road construction project in the street out front, but at 7:00 people started pouring in.
We had over 120 people there, packed elbow to elbow, even out in the hallway, all there for a tale of love, betrayal and family language. I tried something new for me, a slide show with a few sound effects. I got the idea from Mary Gleysteen, long time ace bookseller at. When I was working on Naked at the PodiumI interviewed her for the section on bookstore presentations, and asked her for her thoughts. She said, “I wish novelists could do a slide show, or something with some visual aspect.” So I did. As the book is set in 2 eras, 1953 and 1997 I used slides and sounds to indicate the change in the eras–an old Western Electric phone vs a Motorola SmarTec cell, with the sound of the ring tones was one.
Another new thing, I asked everyone there who had a blog, a Facebook page, or Twitter account to post something about the book and the event. I have no idea how social media really works, but I’m trying to plunge into it. Looking out over that crowd convinced me that no man on earth goes better friended than I.
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