My first author panel went off without a hitch!
If you don't include everything that went wrong…

First, I want to thank Cassie and An Unlikely Story for hosting the event. I learned a lot and had a ton of fun.

I had never done one or even attended one before so I had no idea what to expect. I don't have a fear of public speaking but I do have a good deal of anxiety over it which gets me very nervous. So, I made some notes for myself that I could easily reference. Easy Peasy!

…then I dropped my little folded up piece of paper on the stage as the previous author finished up her monologue.
Like the stubborn fool I am, I refused to get up off the hard wooden (though I'm pretty sure the thing was made out of death, taxes, and nightmares) stool, bend down and pick it up (what a great first impression!)

So I decided to wing it…

Started off great! Referenced one of my favorite quotes, told a few jokes (people laughed), screwed up my simple bio so I joked my way out of it. So far they loved it! Yay!

Then I started talking about my books…

It would not have been so bad if I had just winged and talked freely instead of trying to remember my notes and my checklist, and kept zoning out for a second or two which started me panicking a little. Argh!
To make things worse, the previous day I had just seen a variety clip show where an experience freestyle rapper went on a local TV show (his first time on live tv) and tried to freestyle. You could see the panic set in immediately. That started playing in the back of my mind!!! WHY GOD WHY!!!!!!!

Anyway, I battled through, forgot all the important parts, and delivered a quick, completely out of order, barely intelligible monologue about my books that explained nothing that would give anyone a reason to think they were worth reading.

Sigh.

I'm sure I'll get better cause I don't think I can possibly do worse, LOL.

I know I said this last week but…

Next week, the Chamber of Creation and Lilith disasters. Lol, I seem to have a lot of them.

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