Borders Signing Texas

Ok...so it wasnt REALLY this bad but what a great photo huh? haha




After the 3 Alarm signing, I ended up traveling home with Anthony and stayed with him for the week. We had another Borders book signing the following weekend and it just kind of work out for us with the traveling. I got to visit with my buddy Brian Thompson britown.com and we had a pretty good time hanging out. He helped me develop the Berona’s War Game. The idea was semi developed but Brian really helped me hit it home. If things go well I can say we have a pretty good chance of getting a solid board game out. It will have a nostalgic D&D feel with good old school board game fun. The trick was making it so it was fun and versatile enough to want to play again and again but at the same time not making it SO complex that it was a headache trying to figure out how to play...and though we are at the beginning stages, I really think we might have figured out how to do that. More on that to come :)
So on to the Book signing…You know its weird, if you actually ADVERTISE a book signing, it goes over a lot more successful. When we showed up it was almost like they didn’t have any idea we were coming. Not to mention that they didn’t put ANYTHING on their website. When I asked them about it they said, “We sent the information to corporate…I don’t know why they didn’t post it.” REALLY??? God forbid we DORVE 6 HOURS to get there!!!! HOWEVER, having said that, we tried to make the best of it (we usually do) and figured “screw it!” we’re here so lets do this!

I'm glad we stuck with it because it actually ended up turning out pretty good. We sold WAY more than we thought we would. We can thank the crowd that showed up towards the end of the signing. I kid you not, when we got there…there was like four people in the store and three of them were about 90 years old! Fortunately we had a D&D crowd show up as well. Yes, you heard me correctly…a Dungeons and Dragons Roll playing group showed up! I guess they have a scheduled game night or something. Anyway, it worked out for us. Come to find out, they seem to be a target audience! HA!
So to wrap things up, again, we had a pretty good time and got a good bit done on Book II.

-Jesse