First off, when my SORORITY 101 series debuted, I had a launch party in Boston with all of my work friends, a ton of writer friends, my agent, my sister, brother, nieces, and cousins. It was a huge blowout and I was hot, sweaty, nervous wreck. As I gave my speech toward the end of the night, I looked around the room to thank certain people. When I saw the person's face, I thanked them, and proceeded around the room. However, I pulled a Hilary Swank. I forgot to thank my then husband! It wasn't totally my fault because he was standing behind a pillar and I couldn't see him. I did correct the mistake, but I was horrendously embarassed!
The other oopsies was when my book THE OTHER SIDE: A TEEN'S GUIDE TO GHOST HUNTING AND THE PARANORMAL was released, my co-authors (my now fiance, Patrick Burns, and Dave Schrader) and I were having our launch party at Dave's Darkness Radio event at the Queen Mary. Only problem was, the books arrived a week after the event. Talk about egg on the face! We had 200 people there who wanted to buy our books. So, our amazing publisher got the attendee list and addresses and mailed them all a FREE copy of it. That was incredibly generous!
Let's hope neither of those things happen again!
Last week, I put up a giveaway for C.C. Hunter's BORN AT MIDNIGHT...and the winner is...
*****TEPEE*****
Please e-mail me offline with your name and address at marley_gibson AT yahoo dot com. Congrats!
Next week...the launch of my new book GHOST HUNTRESS: THE DISCOVERY!
Hugs,
Marley = )
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4 comments:
Marley, that WAS generous of your publisher! Glad that story ended well.
congrats "tepee"
They're awesome to begin with, but that was above and beyond! = )
Thanks for sharing, Marley. Good to know everything turned out all right. I don't have any booksigning nightmare stories but I'm enjoying all of yours!
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