The World Tour begins!
Sunday, March 8th, 2009What an adventure it’s been since The Last Freedom came out in early December!
My first event was a card table set up outside the new restaurant Casablanca (how ironic, since it’s my character’s favorite movie!) during the Christmas-themed First Friday celebration in Augusta, Ga. Sold five or six. The next day, did the card table thing at the Saturday market downtown. Sold another handful.
Since then, it’s been a whirlwind.
We had two pre-Christmas book signings at the small but sincere Book Tavern downtown, and we rocked the joint. Another at Barnes and Noble Feb. 21. And a growing number of speaking engagements around town. And the books are flying off the shelves at the Book Tavern, the only store where the book is readily available.
Word of mouth has been unreal. And the reaction to The Last Freedom has been overwhelming and so very humbling. So many people have said they couldn’t put it down, and that it really moved them. I even got a call from Mrs. Frankl in Vienna!
It’s going to be a wild spring. The World Tour is headed for Kansas, and perhaps Alabama and Texas and Florida and beyond. Since we’re doing all this ourselves, without the help of a major publisher, it’s going to take time. But this will be a world tour.
We gotta get some T-shirts!
Thank you to all my friends and supporters who have already made The Last Freedom a success. We’ve endured the burning. Now it’s time to give off light!
Michael
Sunday, March 8, 2009