Introverted Author Putting Herself Out There For Fans!

It is the week of my book signing and I'm starting to get nervous! This is my first interaction with potential fans of my work and I'm anxious to see how they respond to me. I still have to choose a passage to read aloud at the signing and I have no idea where to start with that one. I'm thinking of using the scene where she first meets Jackson, but I'm not sure. I don't want to choose something too far into the book, but I'd like to pick out something that is one of the key elements in the book.

Of course, choosing an excerpt to read is only part of what makes me anxious and nervous about my book signing. I'm worried no one will show up or on the flip side, too many people will show up and I won't have enough books to sell and they will be disappointed. To be prepared I'm creating a sign up list for prepaid books that I will order, sign, and mail out to people that come but don't receive a book if there are that many people. Part of me would love to have that kind of turn out and part of me is terrified of facing crowds of people wanting my attention!

I suppose it seems silly to have started into a writing career hoping to make it big, yet be afraid of crowds. I really am more of an introvert and enjoy sitting quietly in my house writing rather than being bombarded by people. I am much more satisfied to get to know people online through social networking sites than to meet people face-to-face. However, I promised myself that if I published my work I would make myself accessible to fans and not hide away as some reclusive writer. Now I suppose we'll see how well I handle that!

Today's music of the moment is "Tremble for My Beloved" by Collective Soul off of the Twilight soundtrack. I'm getting excited that it's less than a month away till New Moon comes out in theaters so I've been listening to the Twilight soundtrack a lot lately getting myself all pumped up to see it. I can't wait. I probably won't go the opening weekend simply because it will be a madhouse that weekend, but I'd like to go to see it maybe a week or two later when things are just starting to settle down yet there are still the large crowds of moviegoers that make the theater alive with excitement when you go to see a good movie like that.

I will post again tomorrow along with the new "Tidbit Tuesday" excerpt. I hope you enjoyed last week's opening paragraph from the sequel book to Awakening of a Guardian, The Council. I need to get cracking on working on that book some more and get back into my groove. It's just been hard with everything going on around here. I think I'm just suffering a bit of stress-induced writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, I just can't seem to get them organized lately. I am still hoping to have it done by the end of the year if at all possible though!