13 Knight Setting up a table at a signing is work. Good work, but work, nonetheless. After grabbing a quick breakfast together at a local diner, Gray, Colt and I get back to the hotel and walk down to the singing room in full Wordsmith solidarity. When we do it looks like a house that someone just moved into, only they haven’t unpacked any of their s**t yet. Huge brown boxes filled with paperbacks decorate the floor. Next to them are our banners and envelopes holding the swag—free extras like stickers, bookmarks, buttons, and custom pens—that each of us brought with our logos and book covers on them. One of Grayson’s readers, Connie, helped run point on this event with the hotel, and when we get to the signing room she’s already there taking inventory and helping unpack Gray’s stuff.

