Stack of books. Great news: they sold out! I had to sell some I brought from home as well!
Flowers from Zondervan friends. What a blessing those folks are.
It's so fun to meet with the actual folks who will read the book! (and sign it personally!)
Stories of books!
We had a steady stream of guests.
They had a flat screen behind me with the book cover and a synopsis. This is me talking briefly about the book and answering a few questions.
Bookmarks.
The amazing cake! The book of Daisy Chain was edible and raised 3D from the cake. It was a marbled cake with buttercream frosting and chocolate ganache filling. Yum! Thank you, Michele!
All in all, a very successful event. I'm so thankful for my new friends at Legacy Books, for Michele the cake lady, for the cafe at Legacy for providing beverages, for the troop of folks who came from the Dallas Christian Writers Guild, the Rockwall Christian Writers Group, UT Southwestern, and for so many from LakePointe Church. What a blessing the time was. I am humbled and thankful.
Only two other authors had sold out a book signing, (and I sold more myself), so it was considered a huge success. Thanks, Kyle, at Legacy for a terrific program.
12 comments:
Congratulations, Mary, it sounds like a super event, and very successful. That cake is a work of art, and what a great idea! But you have to tell me-who got to eat cake? Anyone brave enough to ask? People who bought a book? Did you have someone else handle the cake cutting and all that?
Thanks again, and I'm happy for your success!
Blessings,
Linore
Wow! Mary, it looks wonderful. What a delightful, and delicious sounding cake.
What fun!! Congratulations! You're off to a great start with this one! Cake was beautiful too. I am so happy for you.
The only thing better than hearing and seeing how wonderfully everything went at the launch would have been to be there. Sorry I missed the chance to cheer you on...and a piece of that fabulous cake. Congratulations to a most worthy artist!
Congratulations, Mary! I pre-ordered my copy from Amazon and am anxiously awaiting it's arrival. I also wanted to let you know that I'm reading "Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture" and loving it. I just finished the chapter entitled "Masterpiece" and can't agree with you more of the importance of incorporating art and nature into our children's lives in order to see the full (well, as full as humanly possible) scope of God's hand at work around us. Thanks for all your hard work. Be encouraged!
Lyra, I'm glad you're enjoying Authentic. That's lovely to hear.
All: Thanks for cheerleading and rejoicing with me.
Congratulations!!! Wish I could have been there. Love that cake!
Mary, congratulations on the book launching. We had fun!
I finally got to start reading Daisy Chain around 8:30 last night. Thank you in advance, Mary, for making the next week miserable for me. Ha! What I mean is, now I will have to continually force myself to lay the book aside and get some other things done, that HAVE to get done. That, or I can do what I usually do with a good book: pretend the other work doesn't exist and just get caught up in a good book.
FANtastic! I'm so happy for you. The cake is amazing and looks delicious. Bless you. - Donna
Cool, fun, excellent, congrats . . . and give me some of that cake!
What fun! Congratulations on a great event!
And do you think the cake lady would make cakes for all our books? Too yummy!
I pray God's continued blessing on all your projects. You're one awesome woman!
Mary,
Congratulations!! This is fantastic news and the photos are terrific.
That cake looks absolutely delicious. I loved the book and am looking forward to reading the next in the series.
Blessings,
Mary
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