Amy N Kaplan

I’m super excited! I’ve signed up and paid to attend my first convention. It’s July 26-27 2024 in Richardson, Texas at the Hilton Richardson-Dallas. This kind of explains why I haven’t been blogging very much. I completed the updates to my second editions of all five of my books and they should all be available on Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The two children’s books finally have eBook versions… although I’ll probably never be happy with the way it looks on there! Whew.

Oh my gosh! There’s so much to do. I have to make sure I have enough copies of my books to sell… but how many is enough? How many is too much? What’s the right number? I need to figure out how to display my books.

I should have little “give away” items, I suppose… or maybe sell add-on things like bookmarks or pens?

Then there’s the tablecloth. Do I have one made that showcases my “brand” or just go with plain black? And what’s my “brand” anyway? I need to get “branded” headshots of myself. Wow, I’m rambling here.

According to another author’s “best practices” I need more than one payment option, swag, a banner, a tablecloth, a price list, a book stand and QR codes for the multiple payment plans as well as a link to my blog and Facebook page. Gee, that’s a lot of stuff to think about. I’m glad I have until July next year. (July will be here so fast, though.)

While I’m doing all of this, I need to finish my third children’s book, “Free Range Goats – An Interactive Adventure Story About Ten Little Goats” as well as my fourth RPG book (It isn’t titled yet and I may launch a Kickstarter for it.)

Have any of you, my readers, been to a book festival? What type of items do you like to see when you’re there?