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     Hen81 Regular Poster Username: Hen81 Post Number: 61 Registered: 09-2007 Rating: N/A |
This was a one day big event on a Saturday with B&N tent and several other major sponsors. Bands were playing and there was a lot of traffic. The table rent was $100. I netted enough in sales to cover rent and one night hotel. I didn't cover enough for travel as I drove to Baton Rouge from Dallas. This was a combined vacation/book tour and I stayed over for a week in New Orleans and did a book fair the next week on Frenchmen street. I was pleased with this event and trip. The East Baton Rouge library system had ordered several copies of Rooftop Diva months before the book fair. The State Librarian stopped by my table to inform me that she had just ordered a copy of Rooftop Diva for the State Library collection. Coming to this area was a natural for me given the main character of Rooftop Diva hailed from New Orleans and was a Katrina survivor. I also had several librarians take information with pledges to order the book for their collection. I also ran out of literature and had to get more printed for the New Orleans show. I'm sure some of those follow-on sales that showed up on Ingram were from that show. The end is if you can break even on the table/booth, everything else can be viewed as promotion. Some of the images on my video were from the New Orleans leg of that same trip. www.DTPollard.com |