Meet and Greets
I went to the San Jose Jazz Festival yesterday. Excellent music! I also got to meet some great vendors too! I had been feeling kind of leery about just handing out cards to people as they walked around. I mean, that's soliciting, and I guess I don't feel as courageous as I should. What if the event staff tell me to stop??? Okay, I'm miedosa. It occured to me, though, that I had a website. I have viewers. I have something people need! And here were all these people sitting out in the hot sun, trying to sell their wares. So I decided to offer them free advertising if they like what they see on my website. I will post their cards and links on my website. It was amazing how they were more interested in what the book was about and how long did it take to write it, etc. I thought maybe they'd only care about the free ad, but they didn't! Plus, some said they'd put my ad on their websites too! I hadn't expected that. It made me feel really good.
I met a vendor from Nepal. He was very interested in my t-shirt. It has my Cipitillo on it, with the backwards feet. He started telling me about this legend in Nepal about witches with feet like that. It sounded a lot like La Ziguanaba! I asked him to send me an email with his story. I love it when I hear stories from other cultures, and the similarities just leap out at me!