Flouncing and Venting: When Meeting an Author Goes Wrong

Anne Marble
5 min readJan 28, 2022

I love meeting authors at book signings. For readers, this is our equivalent of standing in line for autographs at Comic-Con. But sometimes, it can go wrong.

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Photo by Ashley Piszek on Unsplash.

Here are some bits of advice that seem random but are connected.

· Don’t assume the worst of an author at an event.

· If you think you are being ignored at the…

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Anne Marble

I’m a writer and a copy editor with experience in editing science and engineering articles. Click Lists to find my most popular articles. And hidden gems.