{"id":564,"date":"2017-09-03T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=564"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:37:50","slug":"i-sell-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/i-sell-books\/","title":{"rendered":"I Sell Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In a Chapters-Indigo bookstore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am away from home, and at present, sitting in a Tim Horton\u2019s coffee shop for a simple, fast-food breakfast while waiting for the nearby Chapters book store to be ready for my book-signing event. This is my third such event in Calgary in three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday I drove from my home in Saskatchewan, to Calgary. I left in darkness as it was a five and a half hour drive across the prairies to reach the first Chapters bookstore. I stopped a few times, once for gas and coffee, and once to get a photo of the rising sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once in the store at the beginning of the final long week-end of the summer, I sold sixteen books. I exceeded my expectations and that of the store itself which predicted somewhere between five and ten books might be sold because it was a warm, sunny day and few shoppers were expected. Once the event ended, I drove to a room I had rented in a private home. Yesterday, I went to a second store with a sale of fourteen books during a day with significantly less customer traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No internet at the house meant that I maintained a curious silence that was filled with listening to music, a bit of writing on the third novel, and finally trying to catch up on sleep. Tonight I drive on to Red Deer where I will stay with my son and his family. Tomorrow I drive to Edmonton for the final book-signing event for the long week-end, returning to stay at my son\u2019s for the week. Somewhere along the way, I will find my way back here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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