When you are promoting your book or company, you are a business person, an executive, even.
WTF?!!?
Let's review:
1) Suits do not have interesting lives
2) Suits do not write interesting books
3) Suits do not write immortal books
This is what an artist looks like:

Samson Shillitoe from A Fine Madness

Gulley Jimson from The Horse's Mouth
Apparently some people are aiming at this market:

Jesus Christ! Wait for me to scour my eyes and I'll be back!
OK then.
I'd rather aim at them:

They might be sloppy, but they're alive!
What a book signing with me would be like ...
Bookseller: Mr. Cane! You just told that woman who bought your book to fuck off!
Mr. Cane: And she loved both syllables of it!
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