Harlan Coben: Writer’s Perspective

Visiting my publisher, signing books, lucky man

I walked into the room, pen akimbo — and the table of books you see here was what greeted me.

“Wow,” I said, taking the above photo with my phone.

“Oh that’s only about half of them.”

I sat down and got to work. As I came upon my second hour of signing, someone asked, as someone inevitably does, “Isn’t your hand getting sore?”

The honest answer: No.

My hand only gets sore when NO ONE wants me to sign a book. I still remember my early days, sitting in some Waldenbooks at a mall, no one approaching me, trying to look busy, playing with my pen, straightening out my untouched pile of bookmarks, feeling something like the authorial equivalent to a poster child (“You can buy his book…or you can turn the page…”).

Now I’m supposed to complain because too many people want me to sign their books???

Forget it.

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