Okay, so I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been a bit busy lately. I did find the time to pop up to New York with Nathan this week to meet with Barnes & Noble. We went to the New York Public Library. There was a disturbing lack of books there. So we went across the street to the Mid-Manhattan Public Library, where they seemed to have very nearly just about everything. I could have spent the whole day there. At the library.
Frack, I am such a nerd.
But anyway! I thought I’d share one of my favorite little hobbies with everyone today. It starts with a confession:
I love self-published books.
There’s something to be said of a person who believes so strongly in what they’ve written that they will spend gobs of their hard-earned money to publish their book on their own. There’s a lot of things to be said, actually, and many of them are not particularly cordial. But I still love to read self-published books. I want to know what it is that was so groundbreaking, so earth-shattering, so important (and so put-offish to a publisher), that the author just had to publish the book on their own.
So I read self-published books. And then I will often send feedback to the author to try and help them market their book better or to help them become a better writer. Sort of what I do with some manuscripts that are submitted to Destiny Image.
I also like to see self-publishing done right, or at least someone trying to do it right.
The main reason to share this, though, was to give me an excuse to post the signings I found in the latest self-published books I bought. I just noticed the signings while finishing the second book on the train to NYC this week. It was a cute little gem to find. 
I like authors who do cool little things like this unexpectedly for their readers.
