{"id":10453,"date":"2023-05-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2023-05-10T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:45:59","slug":"mistakes-ive-made-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10453","title":{"rendered":"Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Architect of Courage<\/em> accompanied me to the Princeton Public Library\u2019s Local Author Day. I sat with friend and awesome fellow thriller-author Kevin G. Chapman<\/a>, and the crowd was impressive. The library\u2019s community room included dozens of authors, a number of whom publish children\u2019s book, who decorated their tables with stuffed animals, princess crowns, and the like. One of Kevin\u2019s book covers includes a knife-blade dripping with blood. And his titles include words like Assassin, Dead, and Fatal. We passed on having an appropriately themed display for our table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another local author visited with us and spent an excruciatingly long time at our table after telling us he doesn\u2019t buy books. Instead, he re-reads favorites from decades ago. He then had a long\u2014very long\u2014rap about how, unlike Kevin\u2019s Assassin, Dead, and Fatal covers, his bloody knives and corpses, the cover of Architect of Courage<\/em> doesn\u2019t signal \u201cthriller.\u201d I\u2019d heard that before, but filed it in the category of \u201ccan\u2019t do anything about it, so why worry?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin laughed when the next person to stop at our table said, \u201cOooh, I love that cover!\u201d But she didn\u2019t realize the book is a thriller. Of course. So, too late to reprint, I did finally take these comments to heart and ordered see-through labels that read \u201cInternational Crime Thriller\u201d to affix underneath the title of the copies I have, and I created a graphic that does the same. I\u2019ve replaced the book cover photo on my website and used the new one in an ad I\u2019m running this summer. So, that long diatribe we suffered through was actually helpful! Big smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019m all set for The Flemington Summer Book Fest<\/a> May 28, the Burlington County Book Festival<\/a> June 3, along with pals from the Central NJ Chapter of Sisters in Crime, The Passaic County Book Festival<\/a> June 10, and, later this summer, the Public Safety Writers Association annual conference! Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n\n

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