My bike shop posted a bit about someone losing weight riding bikes:
Hey, I know that guy. It’s the author of The Wards of Iasos Book 1: The Leftovers which I read in 2017. When I bought his first book in September 2017, I said:
I saw him at LibraryCon 2017, but he was speaking in a panel when I passed by his table on the way out, so I didn’t buy his book. I saw him and caught a little of a talk he gave at the Ozark Mini Maker Faire the next week. When I saw him yesterday at a table in Hollister, his old home town, I told him if he was going to keep following me to fairs and festivals, I’d buy his book. Now, when I see him around, I’ll remind him of that.
I would think he was stalking me to buy his second book, but:
- It’s not out yet after four years. But, Brian J., you haven’t self published a novel in almost ten years. Shaddup, italics voice. Shaddup.
- I don’t do the Bicycle Outlet Monday Night Rides because we only have a three bike mount for the back of a car, which means one of our family would have to ride out to Bicycle Outlet to join in and then back some seven or eight miles in the dark. As a result, currently, the family does the Friday night rides in Battlefield, which is only a couple of miles away.
Of course, this means I’ll be looking for him when the Friday night rides start up again, and I’ll have to start seeing him at events and hounding him for the next book in the series.
Which, truth be told, I’d only buy and throw on the stack.
The only local author I can look in the eye at the next LibraryCon, someday, is Joshua Chase Dodge Merrin. Because I’m way behind on Shayne Silvers and William Schilcter.
