One Day at Barnes & Noble...

One day, hopefully by the spring of next year, I will be hosting my first ever book signing event. When my book sales a gazillion copies (not "if", but "when"), I will go on a book tour with a friend or an author whose work I love. It would really be something to tour with, I don't know, David Sedaris, Johnathan Franzen or Mitch Albom. Maybe Mitch --- I think he would be able to appreciate my book the most as he writes things that are inspirational and life-changing. 


I haven't got a clue what that day will be like, at my signing event. I'll be a little nervous, I know, but what will it be like for people to stare at a teenager waiting for him to say something stupid or run away screaming, "Stop looking at me! I'm just a kid!"? But I know that God will give me strength and something cool and ridonkulously awesome and precocious (in a good way) to say to my new fans when they approach my pimped-out table --- well, not really. It'll probably just be an ordinary wooden or plastic table with a table cloth draped over it, but for the sake of my self-esteem, let's just say it'll be pimped-out. :P


There will be a poster nearby with my face on it and a giant photo of the front cover of my book. There will be an introduction on it, too, reading,

A gripping perspective on the complications of the average American teenager, Sunday Morning is a novel that tells a story of laughter, stupidity, anxiety, confusion, and dysfunction. It is a story that follows Marshall Brennan from the typical Chicago public school to a high-society school in Michigan, where he has come with his mother and sister for her new job and to escape the anxiety and pressure that he faced at his former life. On his journey to self-discovery and to relinquish his freak-flag, he is a 21st Century teen opposed to the typical, apprehensively entangled in silly teenage dreams and sky-high-nosed Corporate America brats. And like the beginning of a promising new week, he will rise like the sun (or wallow in his own exaggerated misery).

Don't worry. I just made that up. I will include some of that in the actual intro, but that is a mere draft. But even more importantly, I will greet my fans with,

Hello, and thank you for your interest in my novel. It's been a journey, but it's finished! It's called Sunday Morning and it's the story of an anxiety-plagued American teenager who recently moved to a Michigan suburb, attending a private school, and is a part of a dysfunctional family who is trying to get along and pretend to be a normal family, escaping old problems, and ultimately running into more impediments than ever before when they think they are starting to become normal. I'd say it's more or less a young adult read, not necessarily a teen read, but it's for anybody. It would be a blessing if you could buy it, and hey, if you like it, recommend it to friends and family!

Yeah, I know it's long and I will cut it down. But most importantly, God will tell me what to say when that glorious day comes.


I think I'll go eat dinner and watch Glee now.


P.S. Thank you so much, Ms. Darlene, for this magnificent opportunity to express my weird creativity through this blog. I wish everyone in the Writer's Workshop all the followers in the world and I know that, with your help, I will reach my dream and finish my novel within the next several months. See ya Sunday! :)