I agree – there’s lots of reasons the crowds can be small, but the selection process, again, is multifactorial, comprising issues as varied as the raw travel logistics (some events are date-constrained), the in-town booksellers’ recent and historical track records for bringing in a crowd, previous performance for that author in that town, etc.
But I sincerely thank you for coming! Small as that event was, I remember it VERY fondly!
