Susan Etlinger quoted me from the panel today:

What about book tours? Ariel calls it an “ego-crumbling” experience, since no one goes to a reading unless they already know who you are. So she did many readings to eight people, “seven of whom were my friends, and the other one was some homeless guy who just wandered in.” So Ariel ended up doing her readings…in bars. Her advice? “Have your antidepressants in your pocket.”

I wanted to comment on this by saying that I exaggerated. Eight-person readings, honestly, were a luxury. There was one reading with the bookstore manager, my cousin, and a woman who wondered by and was curious. There were a couple other readings where even the homeless guy didn’t wander in. I’m serious: not one person.

Just needed to clarify that.