Ayelet Waldman’s worst book signing ever? It was her first, according to a cool article on bad book signings by The Baltimore Sun.

“My very first book was published on the same day that one of the Harry Potter books was published,” she said. “I sat at a table at Waldenbooks telling people, ‘Right down the hall and turn left.’ I didn’t sell a single book, but I gave many, many people directions” to the stacks of J.K. Rowling books.

Waldman appears to have her dates mixed up a little. Nursery Crimes, her first novel, was published June 1, 2000, a month before The Goblet of Fire hit stands. She probably meant to say her signing was the same day Harry Potter came out.