"The Military Guide" book signings: Lackland & Randolph BXs @ San Antonio 9 & 12 Sep
This week I'll be at USAA's Blogger Conference in San Antonio for their product & technology updates and their 9/11 commemoration ceremony. Please let me know if you have a topic or a question for them, and I'll post their answer on the blog. More on that in this thread:
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/usaas-invited-me-to-san-antonio-57007.html#post1091177
Much to my surprise, it looks like I'll also be doing book signings at two military exchanges. The book isn't on their shelves yet ("any day now"!) so this precipitated some fast shipping work from Impact Publications to my hotel. (Hopefully the book boxes will be waiting for me at check-in.) Then I found out that Fort Sam Houston's BX already has an author signing his book this month (what, no room for two of us?) but the BX staffs eventually negotiated a compromise.
So I'll be in the Lackland BX at 2-4 PM on Friday 9 Sep and the Randolph BX at 2-4 PM on Monday 12 Sep. Free Hawaii chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for the first 25 customers!
This is my first book signing, and I need all the practice I can get. The BXs are furnishing an air-conditioned location, a table, a few chairs, and a poster of the book cover-- but otherwise I'm pretty much on my own. I'll be charging $15 cash (tax included, exact change appreciated!) and throwing in a free personalized first-edition autograph. All royalties go to Wounded Warrior Project & Fisher House.
If you know the layout of those places then I could certainly use your advice. (For example, I'm not sure if you can get to the BX without a military ID.) And if you've done a book signing or, heck, even just seen one then I could use your advice there too. The success (or lack thereof) at these two book signings will help me decide whether to tackle the big leagues at Fort Hood, Pearl Harbor, and Schofield.
The San Antonio-area ERs are also rumored to be working on a E-R.org chapter meeting this weekend. Details to follow...
This week I'll be at USAA's Blogger Conference in San Antonio for their product & technology updates and their 9/11 commemoration ceremony. Please let me know if you have a topic or a question for them, and I'll post their answer on the blog. More on that in this thread:
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/usaas-invited-me-to-san-antonio-57007.html#post1091177
Much to my surprise, it looks like I'll also be doing book signings at two military exchanges. The book isn't on their shelves yet ("any day now"!) so this precipitated some fast shipping work from Impact Publications to my hotel. (Hopefully the book boxes will be waiting for me at check-in.) Then I found out that Fort Sam Houston's BX already has an author signing his book this month (what, no room for two of us?) but the BX staffs eventually negotiated a compromise.
So I'll be in the Lackland BX at 2-4 PM on Friday 9 Sep and the Randolph BX at 2-4 PM on Monday 12 Sep. Free Hawaii chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for the first 25 customers!
This is my first book signing, and I need all the practice I can get. The BXs are furnishing an air-conditioned location, a table, a few chairs, and a poster of the book cover-- but otherwise I'm pretty much on my own. I'll be charging $15 cash (tax included, exact change appreciated!) and throwing in a free personalized first-edition autograph. All royalties go to Wounded Warrior Project & Fisher House.
If you know the layout of those places then I could certainly use your advice. (For example, I'm not sure if you can get to the BX without a military ID.) And if you've done a book signing or, heck, even just seen one then I could use your advice there too. The success (or lack thereof) at these two book signings will help me decide whether to tackle the big leagues at Fort Hood, Pearl Harbor, and Schofield.
The San Antonio-area ERs are also rumored to be working on a E-R.org chapter meeting this weekend. Details to follow...