So the past few months have been busy – when I haven’t been at work at my full-time job, my spare time has been taken up with preparing for my first appearance at a renaissance faire as vendor, selling my books. A ren faire seems like a perfect target audience from my writing, so I signed up for a table back in the spring. As the date drew closer, I realized I had a lot of preparations to make in order to make my presence feel professional, as well as thematic for the event. I had a plain white tent that I had borrowed from family, but I needed to find ways to make it feel more in tune with a medieval faire, as well as make sure I still fit into the armour I had been piecing together on my own for the few years.
There are probably more than a few stories I could tell about the effort we put into this event, and while I won’t go into all the details now, I will say that all the effort was worth it!
We attended the Royal Medieval Faire in Waterloo on September 20th, and the response was awesome!
We got to meet a lot of interesting, like-minded people; I go to role-play the warrior-scribe, selling my wares, and made a number of sales to new fans! Well worth the cost of the table!
I am looking forward to attending again next year, when I will add my third book to the selection, and complete ISTEN KARDJA: The Sword Saga, my initial trilogy of tales from Vengriya!
I am crossing my fingers that the sales will translate into feedback, and as I told everyone at the faire, I welcome their reviews, positive or negative. Positive encouragement is great (especially on public sites like Amazon or Goodreads!) to help new authors grow, while negative feedback – hopefully done constructively – will help me develop my writing style to be more effective at conveying an interesting tale.
Wish me luck!
