You got that right, maeve. I love people, and the book signing will be just another opportunity for sitting around and talking with new folks. I'll learn a lot about them, as they learn a little about me.
Not that I need a book signing for that. But I'll break down the author/audience thing.

Several years ago, I sang at the Big Muddy Festival in Boonville, Missouri run by my friends Dave Para and Cathy Barton. The evening concert was held in a historic theater and they had the microphones set up twenty feet back from the front of the stage. I felt like I was singing in an adjacent room, I was so far away from the audience. I warned the sound man not to be surprised if I got up and walked to the front of the stage and did a song without the sound system. After three or four songs, I put down my guitar, walked to the front of the stage and told people I was tired of sitting so far away and that I wanted to see them. I taugtht them The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago, with different parts for the men and women and we ripped through the song at full throttle. It felt good. It was a house concert with 500 people in the house.