Yesterday, I was on my very first author’s panel. I sat with *real* authors, who have written several books. I felt like I was playing dress-up, while I sat there with them, but I was surprised and validatied when I discovered that the way I approach writing was similar to the way they do.
The whole time I sat up there, I kept thinking to myself, “I can’t believe I get to sit here with these people!” and hoping tha tnobody noticed that “one of these things was not like the others” and that thing was me.
After the panel was done, I moved to the autograph area, where I signed copies of Dancing Barefoot for about 90 minutes. It was so cool!! There was a HUGE line of people, and everyone seemed very excited to read my book.
Something else happened yesterday that has never happened before: this guy had to pay us ten bucks, but only had a hundred. We didn’t have change yet, so I told him, “That’s okay, just get change somewhere and come back. I trust you.”
He thanked me, walked away, and never returned. It’s the first time I’ve ever been taken advantage of like that in my life.
I didn’t have time to check out the convention floor yesterday, but Anne is heading back up to Los Angeles today, and I’ll get to spend the day totally geeking out. Check the audioblog for geeky details.