Big news to share with you. Texas In Her Own Words is now on sale at the Alamo! I cannot begin to tell you how exciting that is. People from all over the world are going to get look at this book now.

The Bob Bullock Museum contacted me and asked me to host their Texas Trivia Day event in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibit in June. Stay tuned for the details of that. It looks like I'll do a book signing there too that day. The museum is also placing Texas In Her Own Words in the museum store. 

The .2K for the Sims Foundation went pretty well. We sold some books there. I've started going to various civic clubs and organizations and delivering my speech, "Inventing Texas".

I just returned from Amarillo where I did a book signing event with John "JC" Eslinger, one of the people featured in the book. We had billboards, radio, TV and print coverage leading up to the signings at Hastings in Wolflin Village shopping center. We had a very nice turnout and book sales were brisk.

While I was in Amarillo, I was able to get Texas In Her Own Words in the gift shop at The Big Texan restaurant on I-40. You probably already know it but that is where they have the 72 oz. steak and if you can eat it with all the trimmin's you get the meal for free. No, I didn't even try. (Heck, it looks like a roast!)

There is more good news on the way but I want to give you a reason to come back. So come back soon. Coming up, I speak to a Sertoma Club and I'm off to Houston for two days of book signing at TLA the Texas Library Association annual meeting. Followed by another book signing at the Lockhart Eastern Star annual Taco Breakfast on Saturday, April 29th. 

If you're a member of a group, club or civic organization and you need a speaker...contact me. "Inventing Texas" is a story about Texas that you likely have never heard before and every word of it is true...and it all started with a dead man. See you soon. 

What a month this has been.  It took a couple of days to come down off the high of the book signing.  But as I've said before, I'm pretty much a realist and recognize it for what it is. It was fun but now the real work starts. I remember reading very early in my research of the publishing business a quote from something I read. It simply said, an author spends 6% of his or her time writing their book and 94% selling it.  Well, that's where we are today.

  I have made a few forays into retail land to see if some stores would carry Texas In Her Own Words on their shelves. So far, you can purchase the book in Fredricksburg at the Admiral Nimitz Museum gift shop. It is also across the street at the Main Book Shop. At this point, I have people considering it in Johnson City and  here in Austin...When the book becomes available, I will have the locations listed here on the web site.

 I have two book signing events coming up very quickly.  I will be at the Hastings in Wolflin Village in Amarillo on Saturday, April 22, from 2 to 4.  This is a really interesting promotion. It's complicated and involved but to put it on the short order menu--We currently have two billboards up promoting the event. These were the brain child of J.C. Eslinger. He is one of the people I interviewed in the book. I made the statement, "If there is a more interesting man in Texas, I haven't met him yet." He truly is an interesting man.  So that is what the billboards say beside his picture--Meet the most interesting man in Texas (at Hastings in Wolflin Village) We are also scheduled for two radio interviews, a possible speaking engagment, a related newspaper story based on the people I interview from that area, and a TV interview working up to the actual book signing. It's shaping up to be a large time. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll let you know how all that works out.

I will leave directly after the event to head for home because I have another book signing event at my church--The Manchaca United Methodist Church. Sunday the 23rd is the church picnic. I'm going sell book there. My portion of the profits will go to the church.  Just my way of giving back.  God has been very good to me.

Then the following Wednesday, I'm off to Houston for the Texas Library Association. I'll be signing books on Thursday and Friday. So for about ten days, I figure to meet myself coming back. And I haven't even told you about the various speaking engagements I have coming up---We'll talk about that part of my marketing strategy in another post.  I've taken up more of your time than I expected. I just wanted to bring you up to speed in the life of Texas In Her Own Words.  I do appreciate you spending time with me. In the meantime, take care of your precious selves.