I was in the gym last week, running nowhere on a treadmill when I noticed that the woman beside me was reading Something Missing.
I was thrilled— one of the first discoveries of my book in the wild.
But just as quickly as the adrenaline shot through my body, I was stuck.
What to do?
As a reader, if the author of a book I was reading was standing beside me, I think I’d want to know and hope they would speak up.
But as an author, it’s not so easy to look across exercise equipment to a stranger and say, “Guess what? Wrote that book.”
Is there any way to let a reader know you are present without sounding like a stalker or a loser?
