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Going As a Fan This Time
It's been five years since I sold my first fiction novel, eleven since I sold my first book (non-fiction). In that time, I've been to a lot of conferences, nearly all of them as a "working" conference. Meaning I was either speaking or meeting with editors or my agent. I can't remember the last writers' conference I went to purely for fun. With no worries about my wardrobe becasue I didn't have to make a speech or conduct a workshop or sit down for a meeting...
Until this week. I'm leaving in a few days for Crimebake, held in Boston, and I'm going just for fun. To meet Harlan Coben, among others, and to sit there and soak up the wisdom of others.
Harlan Coben is one of my all-time FAVORITE writers. I'll be there as one of those starry-eyed fans, standing in line, dying for an autograph, my arms loaded up with books I've already read (because I've read nearly everything he's written, but I'll be buying copies just to get the autographs!). It's been ages since I've done something like this and I just can't wait. Part of it, yes, is for education, some research for the books I'm writing in the future, but mostly, well...
I want to meet Harlan Coben and other other authors who will be there ;-).
It's going to be a blast. And just the thought of going to a conference and packing JEANS and not a suit (or multiple suits and skirts) because I'm not the one on the stage has me thrilled, too. I'm so used to being the one on the other side of the podium, that I can't wait to just throw a few Levi's in my bag and jet toward Boston.
How about you? Do you ever get to turn the tables on your job and be on the other side of the fence? Have you met a favorite author? Traveled halfway across the country to do so (this is definitely the furthest I've gone to meet an author ;-).
Shirley
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I am retired, so have no
I am retired, so have no job.
I have never crossed the country to meet an author. I did drive 20 miles to a Waldenbooks to meet Catherine Anderson.
Shirley, you're going to be
Shirley, you're going to be in my neck of the woods! The Crimebake conference sounds like a lot of fun, and I understand completely how liberating it must be not to have any responsibilities while you're there (other than having fun, of course!). When I worked for my HQ office, I used to have to plan conferences for our contracts folks, and run workshops and briefings, etc. Since I left HQ and am back in one of our field offices, I get to go to the conferences as an attendee, with no other responsibilities than to sit and absorb all the information. It's wonderful!!
The farthest I've traveled to meet a favorite author was to Florida, where Diana Gabaldon was doing a bookreading and signing. I used the trip to visit my sister, too, but the booksigning was a real treat.
Have a ball!!
I'm so out of the loop
Shirley, I love Boston, and I love Harlan, and I would have traveled to meet you at this one. :) But I am so out of the loop, I didn't even know about it! I also probably spent about what it would have cost to go to Nationals on a new sewing machine (but they let me finance the sewing machine 12 mos/no interest, LOL) which they wouldn't at Nationals, so there's no conferences in my immediate future. RWA is all I'm counting on definitely, but I would love to make NINC, or is this Crimebake every year? Always in Boston? I would love to go next year -- sounds like my kind of thing. Especially if my mystery series ever sells!
Sam
Shirley
I had to drive across town to meet six authors. Hope you enjoy your trip to Boston.
On another note I got Miracle on Christmas Eve in the mail yesterday and read it and reviewed it on eHarlequin already. Thank you so much for the book as I really enjoyed it. Lots of warm fuzzies.
Although
Although I'd met her before, a few summers ago I flew from Washington state to Maryland to take part in a weekend with Nora Roberts.
She has quarterly signings at Turn the Page, her husband's bookstore. The signing each summer is THE EVENT and corresponds with the release of one of her books.
She threw out the first pitch at a local ball game on Friday night. On Saturday, was the signing (most people had prepurchased on Friday). Several other authors were there (I remember Susan Donovan because I got a book signed by her and we discussed jewellery, too).
On Sunday, there's a big brunch (you have to buy tickets in advance and a few lucky winners got to sit at Nora's table) and then a big charity thing. A bunch of people from her board send in baskets (all amazing) that include books, toys, jewellery, etc, (most of them with one of her books as a theme). All monies go to to the Nora Roberts Literacy Fund. Nora draws the names of the winners.
Over 100 people converge on her small town. The same summer I went, a fan flew in from London!
So, yes, I've gone cross country to meet a favourite author!
I hope you're having fun and weren't too tongue-tied!
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