I feel sorry for you if you couldn’t make it to the signing. It was a blast. Brian did several interviews, including one for the store (watch it by scrolling down to the blog below this one), one with some of the YMCA kids, and another with one of the local high schools. Channel 5 was also there. Brian took the questions in stride and answered them like a champ. I was feeling tired for the guy.

Throughout the four hours, there was a steady flow of traffic coming in and out. Keene signed books, comics, and, most interestingly, an electric guitar.

Initially, I didn’t know what to expect. Those pesky butterflies had been floating around in my stomach, that nag in the back of your mind asking what do you do if nobody shows up. It would have been embarrassing to not have pulled in a crowd. You convince this well-known author to come do a signing at your store and the greatest fear is that the turnout will be so poor that you’ll be asking yourself if the apocalypse occurred without you knowing it (c’mon, we’ve all been to a Barnes & Nobles during one of those times). That perhaps you, the author, and a couple of your buddies are the only survivors of an extinction event that happened behind your back. Fortunately, things didn’t play out that way.

Once again, I apologize if you couldn’t make it.

For a much better (and thorough) narrative of events that took place on the 15^th, visit Tom Piccirilli’s The Cold Spot and read about it. I think he deserved a shirt.

A huge thanks goes out to Brian for his willingness to jump on a plane, take a ride to the middle of nowhere, and spend hours answering questions, scrawling his name on paper, and never failing to smile for the cameras.

Thanks to Josh for suggesting to Brian that he should make the trip out here.

Thanks to Craig for filming our interview with Brian and doing such a masterful job of editing it.

And thanks to everyone who showed up with books in hand or purchased them from the store. You’re the reason why we did it.

P.S. – As it turns out, Josh really did lose his job the following Monday. Please keep him in your thoughts as he hunts for a new one.

Oh, and I almost forgot: last, but not least, thanks to PJ, who really cannot be thanked ENOUGH!