PRESENTATIONS

After the summer I wrote that glowing description of previously, I regret to mention that my energy has waned a bunch and I have not done nearly as much promotion or presentation.  I still rise to the opportunity when it comes easily.

Last summer (2011) I spent time again in Wyoming – though this time more to see family members whose health is fragile and especially one who died just before Christmas. 

Less of my time is spent these days – as health issues of my own includes hip replacements – in writing or promotion, but I still carry cards, books, and talk about the Madam, as well as Doorway to Adventure. 

I was pleased to participate in a presentation at the Lusk Library along with my cousin, Anne Whitehead, whose book about Manville also sold well. This was during the hundredth year anniversary of Niobrara county wherein both the history of that town and Dell Burke’s story were both pertinent.

I did more selling of the books for the Stagecoach Museum than for myself, but found this quite worthwhile. 

In Guernsey, I presented at the Community and placed books for sale at a charming little café, The Silver Fox, where sales were fairly brisk during the summer.

The other project I undertook was to make sure those places – museum, drug store, libraries, etc. – that had been selling Frontier Madam in previous years were able to continue to obtain copies.  The middleman provider of books was no longer providing them, so I made sure they either bought books from me or knew how to order them from the publisher.

I was pleased to make a few contacts for future presentations, such as in the Douglas Library where only the week before Frontier Madam had been the book club favorite for the year.  I’ll present there when I go back.