Swords or spaceships?
It’s a fun thing to ask at passers-by at vendor fairs, we’re finding. It draws people in. Depending their answer, we’ll know whether to talk about Cade and the Last Starship or Madelyn of the Sky. And honestly, it’s fun to see people’s responses.
Some people are disgusted. Why would anyone like either of those? Well, we know that such people are not our target audience. We all like our own things; go like your things. We’ll try to find people that like our things!
Some people are drawn in toward the sword fighting. They love movies like The Princess Bride. (And really, everyone should love that movie.)
And some people get excited about spaceships. Science fiction? Yes please!
These are my people.
But, alas, selling books isn’t for every vendor fair. We applied to join a vendor fair advertising specifically for “something different.” They mentioned they already had enough T-shirt vendors, water bottle vendors, etc. They wanted something unique.
But not books.
Honestly, it’s probably for the best. I assume the organizers know their audience enough to know that we wouldn’t fit in there. That’s fine.
We also got word this week that we won’t (likely) be in the big area comic con in September. The venue is under construction, and the new location is a third the size. They couldn’t fit everyone in that applied.
On the other hand, we’ve been invited to table at our comic shop’s Free Comic Book Day in a month, and I’m looking forward to that! I suspect, “Swords or spaceships?” will be a good match for that audience! Also, I adore the owners of our comic shop. They’re just good people.
So I guess our books aren’t crafty enough for some craft fairs, but they’re still good books. And we’ll keep getting out there to share our stories!
Also, you can now preorder Cade and the Final Harvest, the last of the Cade books! Go check it out! It releases April 15.
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