Five Musts for a Successful Booksiging!

Aloha All,

Wow. What a party!

I’m still trying to recover from the “THREE TO GET LEI’D” book signing party we held at the Tahiti Nui Luau Room on Kauai last month. I’ve had book signings before, but  nothing like this one!

I’ve thrown together some tips for aspiring and published authors everywhere. It may help to become a Tiki Goddess before you try implementing these.

1. Pick a great venue, throw a party, and invite an entire island. Radio announcements on KKCR our fabulous public radio station on Kauai as well as coverage in The Garden Island news sure helped get the word out. So did facebook posts.

The Legendary Tahiti Nui Restaurant, Bar, and Luau Room

 

2. Keep the pizza and mai tais flowing. (No host bar of course. I’d have to sell millions of copies to pay for all the tropical adult beverages that crowd could suck down.)

The Nui's Legendary Secret Recipe Mai Tai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Suggest participants wear a coconut bra and grass skirts. At the very least, hint that they could dress as one of the book’s characters. Then again, my hula sisters are convinced they are the characters in the Tiki Goddess Mysteries!

Is that "Pat Boggs" dancing with "Suzi the Realtor"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Hand out plastic pineapple drink cups to folks who arrive in costume. Even the kids. Just make sure they aren’t indulging in adult beverages. (Note to self…bring more prizes next time!)

5. Make sure there are plenty of musicians playing great Hawaiian music and stand back when the spontaneous hula dancing begins.

BianKa Princess Hanalei

Auntie Gets Frisky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep Your Eyes on the Hands.

Be sure you have plenty of books and photographers. Many thanks to Nadine S. and Holly W. and others for sharing so many great photos.

Mahalo everyone!

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who came to the party!

Start planning your costume for next year while I’m working on the next book in the series… TOO HOT FOUR HULA.

For those of you with a Kindle…Amazon.com is now featuring THREE TO GET LEI’D as a $1.99 special release all of the month of August.

Until Next Time,

Tiki On!

The Tiki Goddess

 

 

 

 

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4 Responses to Five Musts for a Successful Booksiging!

  1. anneliese says:

    I just finished reading Two to Mango while on our month long vacation in Kauai & i loved it!! Where can i find the other two books to read while i am here? Cant wait to read more!!!!

  2. Ami Vela says:

    Love..love your books. I read your 1st & 2nd…and when I found out the 3rd book already out, I’m so happy and love it too. I even read all those 3 books twice. The story is fresh and funny and yummy ;) ….the yummy part of course is for Detective Roland Sharpe character (made me look back again the picture of me and 5 hot fire dancers that my husband took 5 years ago at some luau party at Kona, HI). I can’t wait for the next book of Tiki Goddess Mysteries