Part 3 How to Have a Successful Book Launch

Every book deserves to be celebrated when it, after much frustration and joy and deleting and rewriting and tears, is finally ready to be released into the world! It's a launch, as in rocketing forth! Sometimes a book launch is a jubilee. Sometimes it's a gathering of those who care, a meeting of the minds, of sort. Sometimes it's in a winery where spirits flow. Sometimes in a coffeehouse where the caffeine flows. A senior center. A church fellowship hall. Under a tent at a fall festival. Those have been ways I celebrated being an author with a new book, whether mine alone or with co-authors.

Sometimes, like yesterday, it's a quiet spot in a bookstore with customers dropping in and being introduced to the authors for the first time. I belong to a wonderful group of authors calling ourselves the Foothills Writers. We've published several anthologies containing our original work. This one, Things That Haunt Us, was a fun one to do where we let our imaginations go wild. One of our members arranged the signing and one donated the beautiful table runner to add to the presentation. It turned into more of a book signing than a book jubilee, but don't get me wrong. We were jubilant over its release and had celebrated ourselves at one of our weekly sessions.

With eight authors to schedule around, this celebration became a case of "who can come." Only two of us were able, and I had to leave after a few minutes to go to work. That left one very enthusiastic author who held down the fort and showed the world what we had to offer. 

There we are, moments before I scurried out the door, Tula Smith and I, surrounded by books and books and more books. The featured book that day, proud to say, was our little offering. Thank you, Tybrisa Books, for carving out a spot for authors to share the fruits of their work. We appreciate others appreciating us!

Catch of the day, 

Gretchen