This past Saturday, Jenny and I did our book launch for
Spooky Sudbury at
Chapters, and a reporter from
Northern Life (Ryen Veldhuis) interviewed us and took a few snaps.
Ryen's article and one of the pictures (a fun one where Jenny, Barnaby and I are all looking a little spooked while reading from the book -- okay, Jenny and I look spooked. Barnaby, as always, just looks a little happy) appear in an article in today's Northern Life.
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| Mark Leslie, Barnaby Bones & Jenny Jelen - Picture by Ryen Veldhuis, Northern Life |
I love the fact that the article points out we had sold out within the first hour. At the time it was a bit frustrating, because there were more customers wanting the book than there were books available, particularly since I'm sure Chapters could have easily sold another 20 copies, and this is a local interest title that will likely continue to ramp up in sales as Halloween approaches. But in retrospect doesn't the fact that the book sold out sound really exciting? The manager at Chapters assured me he would be re-stocking the book, they also had copies of
Haunted Hamilton in stock (which I signed), and he said he'd be ordering in a few copies of my previous books
Campus Chills and
One Hand Screaming.
We ended up selling out at
Coles (they had brought in 55 copies) later that afternoon, and the following day I sold over 200 copies at the
Sudbury Costco -- but of course, when a store has a skid, it's really hard to sell out . . . even though sales that day took a nice chunk off the gigantic pile -- and I can proudly boast that, for a few hours in a single store in a single city, I outsold
Stephen King's
Doctor Sleep.
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