I Have a Fan
I honestly thought no one read my blog, that I was really just writing for myself. Sure, I’ve gotten legitimate comments from two different people, but that’s only two, and I figured they have likely lost interest by now. (I need to be a little more confident, I know.) But to my pleasant amazement, I learned differently last Sunday.
I had a book signing in Beavercreek, Ohio, the furthest from home so far (one’s coming up December 3 in Columbus!). Waldenbooks in the Fairfield Mall hosted me, and it was my best signing yet; 15 copies in two hours.
An hour or so in, a smiley woman pushing her son in a stroller with six-year-old daughter in tow, approached the table and told me she’d read about my signing on my Website. “I didn’t think anyone read my Website,” I told her, just like I didn't think anyone read my blog. “How did you find my Website?”
It turns out she gets one of the four weeklies to which my health & fitness column is syndicated, and every article gives my byline and Website at the end. She also told me she regularly reads my blog and enjoys my column in the Springboro Star Press.
We talked for five minutes or so, and I felt so honored that she came all the way from Springboro to Beavercreek (about 35 or 40 minutes). However, my new braces hurt my mouth from all the smiling I, myself, was doing at the thought of having a groupie. : )
I bet my biggest fan recognizes herself in this entry. If you do, J., please leave a comment. Let me know you’re out there.
I had a book signing in Beavercreek, Ohio, the furthest from home so far (one’s coming up December 3 in Columbus!). Waldenbooks in the Fairfield Mall hosted me, and it was my best signing yet; 15 copies in two hours.
An hour or so in, a smiley woman pushing her son in a stroller with six-year-old daughter in tow, approached the table and told me she’d read about my signing on my Website. “I didn’t think anyone read my Website,” I told her, just like I didn't think anyone read my blog. “How did you find my Website?”
It turns out she gets one of the four weeklies to which my health & fitness column is syndicated, and every article gives my byline and Website at the end. She also told me she regularly reads my blog and enjoys my column in the Springboro Star Press.
We talked for five minutes or so, and I felt so honored that she came all the way from Springboro to Beavercreek (about 35 or 40 minutes). However, my new braces hurt my mouth from all the smiling I, myself, was doing at the thought of having a groupie. : )
I bet my biggest fan recognizes herself in this entry. If you do, J., please leave a comment. Let me know you’re out there.
posted by Elizabeth Evans Fryer at 7:07 PM
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Hi, do you still receive comments on this blog?
Yours is the first comment I've received in years. I don't even write new entries to this blog anymore. I keep my travel blog at www.ournationstreasures.blogspot.com. On it are posted the stories published to the papers in SW Ohio. Are you the J. I mention in the blog entry?
Yes, I'm the same J. I had bookmarked this page after meeting you, and now...years later...I am finally responding. lol
Not very long after that book signing, my son was diagnosed with autism, and I left a lot of things unfinished.
Have been following your travel stories in the Springboro Star Press. I'll pop over to your other blog sometime soon!
Joyce
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