Had a lovely time at our local book festival, both because I was sitting next to my good friend and fellow writer Adam Holland, and because of the folks who came by to take a peek at my writing. Some of those were old friends and teaching colleagues, and of course my lovely and ever-youthful wife, but most were just folks attending the festival. Had some great talks with fellow book lovers and made significant sales (even sold out of one title!).
And that’s what charmed me the most, I think. Anyone who knows me might know I am very involved in athletics. I’m an ex-college football player (VERY ex-) current baseball umpire and current high school football coach. As such, it may appear to some that I don’t necessarily fit inside the bookworm, nerd, or geek (yes, I know these terms are not perfect synonyms) stereotypes. But those lovable introverts who are more comfortable inside the pages of a science fiction book than they are on the football field are my people, too. Getting into heady debates about if those who use the Star Trek transporter are in fact killed and reconstituted, or if Robbie the Robot would have been able to destroy the Id Monster if he hadn’t realized it was Morbius, or how Moonbase Alpha was blown off course instead of the moon simply exploding in Space: 1999 are all discussions I relish.
So bring on those folks who cannot bear to toss out a book but will happily give them away, the people who scour old bookstores for that one copy of a Murray Leinster novel, the D&D fanatics who have T-shirts with a 20-sided die emblazoned on it, the folks with “to read” lists that grow exponentially each year…bring them on!
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