Visited 2 local bookstores today to ask about doing an independent author reading. The meetings were enjoyable and each left a next step to be taken. Even though I failed to meet the decision maker, I liked both the people I met. I suspect one of them was a writer and the other seemed very interested in my current work, The Grand Master.
How often do you get to talk about the 15th century and how your novel is placed at the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: the Mausoleum of Hallicarnasus?
My Kirkus Review will hopefully give my request credibility and result in store readings and in-store sales opportunities.