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Big Book signings…the good, the bad, the reason I may soon be done with them.

That’s some title, huh? LOL.

I’ve been attending author book signings for the past ten years. I started off with one the first year after my first 2 books were published. That blossomed to 2 events the next year and 4 the following.

Typically, I now do between 7 and 9 book signings per year, most of them at big book/multi-author events, but several at small library ones as well.

I have to tell you, I prefer the smaller library ones.

Multi-author romance book signings have gotten huge since the Covid shutdown ended. Since we weren’t able to attend any big events for almost 2 years, when we were, it seems everyone and their mother developed an “event.” What started with maybe 20 authors has now jumped to 75 or even more than 100 at an event. That’s way, way too many authors, usually in confined spaces, with people who typically come out for just 2 or 3 of their favs.

I’m not usually one of the favs.

No ego there, just fact.

I attended a debut romance themed book signing event in 2023 that had almost 200 authors crammed into several rooms in a Massachusetts hotel. It was hot, overbooked, over crowded – like fire code violations overcrowded – cost me $1000.00 in hotel fees, table fees, travel, and other expenses, and I didn’t sell 1 single book. Needless to say, I didn’t attend that one the following year, nor ever will again.

Last year I attended a total of 9 events. I spent over $4000.00 and (overall) sold a total of 32 books. Since my books cost ( last year) $15.00 each, the grand total of income garnered at these events was $ 480.00. A little more than 10% ROI. That’s not a business plan anyone can get behind.

This year I’ve got 5 big events scheduled and 1 library sale so far.

This year will be the last year for 2 of those big events. Why? Because they have gotten way too big.

I am a little author in a big pond of people trying to sell her books. I don’t write to market, don’t write dark fantasy, mafia romance, MC, smutty romance books, or dystopian – which is what most of the authors at these events seem to be hawking. Because of that, I spend a great deal of time and money attending the events – again, table fees, hotel fees, gas/food/ the books themselves, and wind up selling 1 or 2 books if I am lucky. Like I said, that’s not a business plan that’s ever gonna be successful.

I do much better at smaller, little library events, with less authors, more time and space for readers to walk around and chat with the authors. If a reader doesn’t know who I am they are not going to stop and quiz me when they have to get around to 100 tables. 10 tables, and they will. I am doing 1 such library event so far this year. I hope another one comes around. We’ll see.

The one added event to the above list is the BIGELOW LIBRARY ROMANCE EVENT on Saturday, August 9. This is a library sponsored event – the best kind – and usually brings out a huge amount of readers who want to support this library and the authors selling their books there.

Next year I have 2 big events on the docket and I think I’ll have one more. That’s it for multi-author events. If those don’t go well, i.e. I don’t at least break even, financially, I may be done with multi-author signings all together.

We will see what the future brings….

For now, I will still keep trying to sell my books from my website to people who know about me through TikTok, Instagram, FB and through reader suggestions to their friends.

If you want to get rich, don’t be a writer! LOL

~Peg

a .99 cent book sale to get you reading on Memorial Day!

I typically put my ebooks on sale during the Christmas in July sales days and around the winter holidays.

But…

For the first time, I am offering RETRIBUTION on kindle, nook, apple books, kobo and a whole host of digital platforms. Just click on the previous sentence’s link and you’ll find it listed most places for just 99 cents from today until next Tuesday, May 27th. That’s enough time to order it for the looooooong Memorial Day weekend.

Are you heading to the beach? Chilling in the backyard on a chair with a drink and a book? Flying? You’ll need a good book to help you pass the days. RETRIBUTION is that book, lol!

6 teenage girls have been kidnapped, brutalized, and murdered in the Washington DC area and the FBI’s SPCD Unit – the Sexual Predators of Children Profilers – are nowhere close to finding the monster responsible. How are the victims chosen? How does the killer find them, contact them, lure them into his sick web? Questions the team has no answers for.

When a high-ranking US Senator’s daughter is the next victim, SPCD team leader, Tucker Petrie, is forced to call upon retired profiler — and his last partner — Kella O’Brien for help. Kella’s been out of the game for 10 years, but her expertise and insights into a serial killer’s mind are unparalleled. If anyone can discover who this madman is, it’s Kella.

But as the team rushes to prevent another young girl’s death, clues the killer leaves behind have Kella wondering if his endgame is all about…her.

Happy reading and happy Memorial Day, America!

~ Peg

Happy Birthday and release day to me…

So, today’s the day. First, it’s the release of the last book in the MacQuire Women Series, FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

For giggles, and comparisons, here’s the original book cover when it was pubbed by Wild Rose Press.

(I have to admit that I like my rebranded cover better!!!)

If you’ve been reading along with the series, this is Pat Cleary, Serena and Seamus’s l son’s love story.

Family Practice Doctor Clarissa Rogers’ first impression of Padric Cleary is biased and based on gossip. The handsome, charming veterinarian is considered a serial dater and commitment-phobe by his family and most of the town. Relationship shy, Clarissa refuses to lose her heart to a man who can’t pledge himself to her forever.

Pat Cleary, despite his reputation, is actually looking for The One. When he does give his heart away, he wants it to be for life. With his parent’s marriage as his guidebook, he wants a woman who will be his equal and soul mate in every way.

Can Pat convince everyone – including Clarissa – she’s the only woman for him?

So, that’s the first great thing today.

The second is…it’s my 65th Birthday. YAY. Medicare. Social Security. AARP.

Did you hear the sarcasm and horror in those last three things? LOL

Hey – wanna help me celebrate? Get FIRST IMPRESSIONS! ( Shameless ask, I know. But, hey! I’m old now and have more privileges! Hee hee.

A great learning opportunity…

Brought to you by RWA.

Are you new to the world, and business, of romance writing? Want to learn more about this billion+ dollar a year industry – the largest genre of books read in the world?

Well, if you do, I’ve got a workshop for you.

Join me and three fabulous, award-winning, bestselling romance authors as we immerse you into the love of writing romance books.

I’ll be discussing TROPES used in romance books – the common ones, the uncommon ones, and why you’d use them in your storytelling. Here’s a little about what my topic is about, and what I’ll be discussing:

TITLE: TRIPPING THE TROPES FANTASTIC

Some things are as familiar as the taste of a peanut butter sandwich, or the aroma of fresh crayons right out of that big 64 count Crayola box. We know exactly what we’re going to get when we bite into that deliciousness or inhale all that waxy perfection.

Tropes work the same way. When we see a book feature a secret baby plotline, or a fake dating one, or even a marriage of convenience, we know exactly what to expect from that story. Our hearts start to race, our anticipation ramps up and we can’t wait to dive into the story. In its truest form, a trope is a promise from the author to the reader to deliver exactly what you want to read.

In this workshop we’ll explore the use of tropes in our writing, the kinds used, the most popular ones readers are buying today, and examine why tropes can enhance our stories and take them to the next level.

Intrigued? you can register for this virtual seminar on the RWA website, here: RWA

Hope I see you there!! ~ Peg

A retreat I can get behind…

especially since I’m doing a workshop!!!

So this Friday and Saturday, May 16 & 17, I will be up in Maine at the Maire Romance Writers Retreat 2025. Here’s the schedule of events: ( and registration is still open in case you want to attend!)

May Retreat

May 16-17, 2025

Embassy Suites, Portland, Maine

Registration is open!

Registration: https://forms.gle/yAseykb6KE4dFaT76

Payment: https://www.maineromancewriters.com/p/retreat-payment-page.html

Registration

Members: $115

Non-Members $125

The Schedule, Presenters, and Workshop Descriptions

Friday

9:00 am  – 2:00 pm 

Writing sprints in the conference room

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Self-publishing Roundtable

Come with questions and your best practices to help each other out!

3:15pm – 4:15pm

What Fanfic can teach you about appealing to GenZ

Marguerite Carrithers started reviewing YA in middle school on her blog “Nerd and a Lemon”. She graduated with a BFA in writing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she is a graduate student in Library Sciences at UI Urbana-Champaign with an interest in curation and rare books. She also has a fascination with archaic forms of communication and teaches print making at Skueomorph Press on the UI-UC campus. 

Workshop Description: Younger readers are coming to Romance from fanfic of their 

television shows and movies. That doesn’t mean fanfic is a new phenomenon. Over the course of this talk we will explore a short history of fanfic, how readers interact with it, and the lessons we can take away for marketing our own work.

4:30pm – 5:30pm 

Making It on to the Shelf: A Bookseller’s Advice

Sydney Macias is a writer, editor and romance bookseller. She has a BFA in Writing. Her experience includes development and copy editing for independent authors and publishers; she also pedals romance at The Last Chapter Bookshop in Chicago. She is published in the Latino Horror anthology: A Night of Screams. 

Workshop Description: Sydney will outline how to research independent bookstores and suggest outreach methods that can help get your work sold in stores. Sydney will also go over event inquires and social marketing to help build up your author profile.

5:45pm – Dinner

Saturday

10:15am – 11:15am

Perceived Tier of Success

Susan Stoker-New York Times, USA Today, #1 Amazon Bestseller, and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan Stoker has spent the last twenty-three years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee and is currently living in the wilds of Maine. She’s married to her own retired Army man (and current firefighter/EMT). 

Workshop Description: There’s a double-edged sword to social media and talking with your friends and hearing about the successes others around you are having in their writing. It changes your perception of what’s normal and what’s not in this industry. Regularly, you might feel inadequate in your own success because of what others are accomplishing around you. No one makes you feel that way by their actions, it’s all in your head. Comparison is the thief of joy. A truer statement has never been said. This workshop will talk about the perceived tier of success and how to combat comparing your success to others.

11:30am – 12:30pm 

Your Writing Voice: A Key to Success

Gail Eastwood is an award-winning, hybrid-published author of 11 “sweet/low heat” Regency romance novels, currently writing Book 5 in her “Tales of Little Macclow” series, featuring an assortment of lovable gentry, working class and aristocratic characters and set in a tiny Derbyshire village where the cause of True Love may be getting some extra help! 

Workshop Description: Are you confused when we talk about “voice” in writing? Editors say it’s what they’re looking for, and agents say it can make the difference between a mid-list and a best-selling career. It’s often defined as “a writer’s personality on the page,” but how do we put it there? Is it something natural, organic, or something related to our writing craft? This workshop will explore the integrated writing elements that make up voice, such as style, tone, and content (each with its own sub-elements) and what choices we make that affect our voices. We’ll analyze recognizable samples of strong writing voices, and through discussion and exercises, map out some ways to strengthen our own voices for greater writing success.

12:45pm – 1:45pm 

Lunch and Business meeting

2:00pm – 3:00pm 

World-building Isn’t Just for Fantasy Writers

Mickey Flagg – Mickey Flagg’s imaginative world is full of mystical warriors, witches and the not-so-normal vampires. With five novels in the paranormal romance genre, spinning tales about the paradox of love is a passion. She is a contributor in a book on urban music education and has published a piece in Still Standing, a web-magazine about loss and healing. M. Flagg is a life-long New Jersey resident, a member of Liberty States Fiction Writers, NJ Author’s Network, and NJRW. 

Workshop Description: Whether your world is fantasy or reality, the way an author creates the setting draws a reader in. This workshop will discuss aspects of building the world within your novel. Beginning with the germ of an idea, world building is a journey into imagination. Will you use one sentence or a paragraph? What roles do our senses play? The what, where, why, how and who will explore boundaries and rules set (and broken) by an author. 

3:15pm – 4:15pm

The Making of a Damn Good Villain

Shirley Hailstock began writing as a lover of reading. She likes nothing better than to get lost in a book and explore new worlds. As an author, she can visit those places, and be the heroine of her own stories. A past president Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America, Shirley is working on her 51st novel. 

Workshop Description: The character of the villain is often blurry. We don’t think of that character as we do the hero or heroine. This workshop will give you insights to the other character and allow you to add depth to your book, but pitting the villain equally with the other two characters.

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Entering Contests as a Marketing Tool

Peggy Jaeger writes about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. 

Workshop Description: As writers, we know finding new readers can be difficult. The advent of the pandemic shutdown made it next to impossible for writers to meet new readers face-to-face at places like book signings, library events, conferences. Social media only gets you so far and let’s be honest: wouldn’t we all rather be writing than marketing our books? Have you ever considered entering a contest to find new readers? It’s a unique mindset because most people enter contests to, well, win them! Come hear why I believe entering writing contests is an effect marketing strategy and tool for getting your books into the hands of new-to-you readers. This workshop explores the ins and outs of contest submissions, the ones that are right for you, where to find them, and the things you should consider before entering one.

I am so stoked to be speaking at this retreat because it is always fabulously attended and the Maine Romance Writers are one of the most welcoming groups on the planet!!! Looking for something creative to do this weekend? Come join us!

~ Peg

The final installment…

It’s hard to believe, but next Monday, the final book in the MacQuire Women Series will release on Amazon/Kindle/and in KU.

In January of this year I re-released book 1, THE VOICES OF ANGELS. IN February, book 2, PASSION’S PALETTE. In March, book 3, SKATER’S WALTZ, and last month the fourth book, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS completes the 5 book series about the strong women of the MacQuire family and the men who love them. This was my very first series and holds such a special place in my heart. This final book was a joy to write and – fun fact – it was the first and only time a fully formed male character came to me before I even had a plot thought! Padric Cleary is my book boyfriend, my hall pass, and my dream lover, all rolled into one fully fledged and complicated man. His reputation is something he has to live with, but he is truly looking for THE ONE – the woman he can pledge his life to.

Finding him that woman was such a pleasure. The fact that she’s smarter than he is, better adjusted, and not looking for a love connection, made telling this tale all the more fun.

You can preorder FIRST IMPRESSIONS now so you’ll get it when it goes livelivelive on May 19 ( which just so happens to be my 65th birthday!) Want to get me a present? No need – just read the book and love it!! LOL

Family Practice Doctor Clarissa Rogers’ first impression of Padric Cleary is biased and based on gossip. The handsome, charming veterinarian is considered a serial dater and commitment-phobe by his family and most of the town. Relationship shy, Clarissa refuses to lose her heart to a man who can’t pledge himself to her forever.

Pat Cleary, despite his reputation, is actually looking for The One. When he does give his heart away, he wants it to be for life. With his parent’s marriage as his guidebook, he wants a woman who will be his equal and soul mate in every way.

Can Pat convince everyone – including Clarissa – she’s the only woman for him?

Mother’s day 2025…

This is the third Mother’s Day I can’t celebrate with my mom.

This is the third Mother’s Day I don’t get to call her, send her a card, cook her a meal, or do anything else that would honor her on this day.

This is the third Mother’s Day she’s been…gone.

I read once, I can’t remember where, that as we get older and have lost people we love, the holidays at first are hard. You don’t want to celebrate, or can’t, either because of physical, emotional, or psychological reasons. But as time passes, it reportedly gets easier, the pain of the loss lessens, and you can start to feel like commemorating the special days again.

I’m here to call bullshit on that theory. It’s been three years and I feel the physical, emotional, and psychological pain of my mother’s loss as hard now as I did that very first year.

Yes, there are days when I don’t think about her and how she suffered those last twelve hours of her life.

Yes, there are days where I don’t reach for the phone to tell her some good news, remembering she already knows because she heard about it in heaven.

Yes, there are days when I forget about all the times we fought and remember one incident that made us both laugh.

Yes, there are even days I don’t have a thought about her at all.

But those happen on typical days, not holidays. Not days of remembrance. Not days devoted to being a mom.

The last four years of my mother’s life, from the time Covid invaded our world, I cooked for my parents, paid their bills, bathed my mother because getting into the tub was a tragedy waiting to happen for her with her hips, and generally took care of them in their own home. They wanted their independence -as much as they could have – and there was no way I was going to take it away from them unless absolutely necessary. Which it became in the end.

On holidays, I would prepare a huge meal for them to celebrate over because my mother loved holidays. On Mother’s day, it was always the same meal: roast beef, mashed potatoes, pearl onions, and chocolate cake for dessert – her favorite meal.

I haven’t made a roast beef since she died. Seems silly, but I just…can’t. I can’t bring myself to cook something I know she loved and then not have her around to taste it.

The following quote has been attributed to the actor Jim Carrey, but the Internet “says” there is no proof he said it. I truthfully don’t care who said it. It explains my grief in a much better way than I can. My hope is that, as the quote says, I will find healing in time. On this third Mother’s Day without my mom, here, with me, in the physical world, I still haven’t been able to heal the wound of her loss…

“Grief is not just an emotion — it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided.

In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw edges begin to mend. The pain softens, but the imprint remains — a quiet reminder of what once was. The truth is, you never truly “move on.” You move with it. The love you had does not disappear; it transforms. It lingers in the echoes of laughter, in the warmth of old memories, in the silent moments where you still reach for what is no longer there. And that’s okay.

Grief is not a burden to be hidden. It is not a weakness to be ashamed of. It is the deepest proof that love existed, that something beautiful once touched your life. So let yourself feel it. Let yourself mourn. Let yourself remember.

There is no timeline, no “right” way to grieve. Some days will be heavy, and some will feel lighter. Some moments will bring unexpected waves of sadness, while others will fill you with gratitude for the love you were lucky enough to experience.

Honor your grief, for it is sacred. It is a testament to the depth of your heart. And in time, through the pain, you will find healing — not because you have forgotten, but because you have learned how to carry both love and loss together.”

If you have your mother still with you on this commemorative day to moms, be thankful. Hug her. Honor her. Kiss her silly like she once kissed you when you were a child. Do something that shows her what she means to you.And don’t let your kids ever forget their grandma is a mom, too.

I wish, with all my heart, I could do everyone of those things today.

~peg

Getting this off my chest…

I don’t write posts like this often. I try – valiantly try – to use my so-called platform to bring a little joy and happiness into people’s lives each day.

But every now and then, something happens, and I have to rant. Today is one of those now and thens.

Writers are told – often – not to read their reviews. Reviews are for the reader, not the author of the book. I call bullshit on that and always have. I actually enjoy reading my reviews – even the ones from people who didn’t like the book, because I always think I can learn something from them that may improve my writing. Does that happen? Truthfully, it has. Often? Nope. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still get a feel for what readers want or what they don’t.

So, I checked into my account this morning to see if any new reviews were put up for my newest Heaven’s Matchmaker book, PERFECT MATCH. I also checked the other books in the series, MIX and MATCH and LOVE MATCH, just in case anyone had read them recently.

This is one of those days I wish I could listen to that sage advice of not reading your reviews.

Nothing bad was written about the books – which I wish had been because it would explain something to me. What I found was a 1 star on Mix and Match, no written review, just a rating. Same thing on Love Match and Perfect Match. I went into the metadata and found the 1 stars were from the same person for all three and all posted on the same day. I clicked on the name of the reviewer. Don’t know her from Adam, but apparently she doesn’t like what I write. Okay. I get that. But if you gave the first book a 1 star, why bother reading the second and then the third??

So, the little detective in me went into a deeper dive.I swear if I wasn’t a writer I’d be a private investigator. For Amazon to post reviews, you have to meet some criteria- $50.00 in purchases in a few months, and actually buy the book to leave a confirmed purchase review. I don’t know how this got past the Zon algorithm, but the one-star reviewer didn’t purchase the books. Did she get them in KU? Maybe, but the first two haven’t been in KU for a bit of time now, so the only one she really could have was PERFECT MATCH. So she didn’t buy them, didn’t get them in KU. I didn’t sell them to her on my website and I know I haven’t met her at a book signing because I would have recognized her picture and/or name.

So. What does this tell us, my peeps? What conclusions can be drawn from this data?
This girl has not read my books, but knows me or knows of me and doesn’t like me, so she has tried to review bomb my series to bring my rating scale down. While this may not seem important to the average writer, to a writer, it is. Because reviews – good ones – get the book noticed. If you have 50 reviews or more on Zon, they push your book out to people who ordinarily might not see it.

Now, review bombing is done for several reasons. Is the reviewer working solo or on behalf of a rival author? I sincerely hope not, even though I know someone – personally!- that happened to. Usually, when this happens, it is someone from a street team or a friend of another writer whom the person perceives is competing with you. We’ve heard stories about this happening for years – last year a trad author had her publishing deal stripped and her book pulled from release because she went on other author sites, review bombed them with 1 stars and then set up fake accounts to give her book all 5 star reviews.

Ridiculous? You bet. Nasty? Yup. Illegal? Unfortunately, no. Which is why I decided to do a little detecting with the above reviews because I smelled a smelly fish, so to speak.

I just want to ask this person, “B**ch! What did I ever do to you???” Or the author you are working for ( and I sincerely hope this is not the case!) Common sense would tell anyone with a brain that if you didn’t like the first book, you won’t like the second. Or the third. So why waste your time reading and then 1-starring them?

Ah, the wonderful, joy filled life of a writer in these trying times.

Treat Mom to something romantic for Mother’s Day this year…

I’m so excited to be a part of N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Celebrate Mothers Bookish Event. Check out all books in time for Mother’s Day and enter the giveaway to win a $10 Amazon gift card: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/celebrate-mothers-bookish-event  

PERFECT MATCH (Book 3) Olivia and Hunter…

Third-generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.

All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.

Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.

Which she isn’t.

Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.

Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.

An author’s nightmare…

Why I am no longer doing big book signing events.

If you’re on TikTok/Booktok, your feed’s probably been inundated for the past few days with a plethora of posts about the debacle that was A MILLION LIVES BOOK FESTIVAL this past weekend in Baltimore, Maryland.

I haven’t seen one good post and I’ve watched about 100 different readers and authors comment on the horribleness of the event. Few readers, a large outlay of cash for the authors, no help, no water, no directions to anything. Even the tables for the authors weren’t what was promised.

There were advertised PANELS with authors and readers that never occurred, and one that did, a Narrator discussion panel, took place in a small room with no chairs or tables or microphone, so the narrators and readers sat on the floor – on the floor!!!!- and listened to the narrators speak for a few minutes.

There were(expensive) tiered admission fees that included a FANTASY BALL on Saturday night for $250. It took place in an open room, no food, and a cash bar. I don’t know about you, but I think a BALL should have food and drink and music. No to the food and music. Cash bar. I can’t get over that one because what was the $250.00 for? From all the videos of the event, it looked like maybe a total of 40 people attended, and from what I’ve heard, most of those were authors.

The event was poorly attended by readers, most likely because there was no advertising done for it. The authors stated there were no signs directing readers to the hall where the signing occurred, no information about panels and where they were happening. Basically, no information at all. No swag bags, no name tags or lanyards. No information.

For people who don’t know this, attending a booksigning is a huge expense for most authors. We have to pay table fees ( the cost of renting a table to display our books), travel expenses, hotel room fees, we have to pay for our books in order to have stock to sell them. Add in swag, table decorations, anything and everything you pay for so that you can draw readers to your table, and the ROI (return on investment) is mostly never what the outlay of cash was. I’ve written several times on this blog that I’ve gone to events and spent $1000 and didn’t sell one book.

You can’t sustain a career on that.

So this is the reason I have stopped doing big book signings. In the past year I have heard about events that have gotten too big for their britches ( Apollycon, Getting Witchy with it, and Readers take Denver just to name a few I’ve heard spoken poorly of) and subsequently have had author and reader complaints abound.

I’m done complaining.

The events I choose to attend now are somewhat smaller ( some really small) and I am happy with that. I don’t have thousands of dollars to lay out for travel, rooms, table fees, etc, and not make any money in return. That’s a horrible business model because you don’t go into business to actually lose money.

The ones I attend now, and that I know treat the authors and readers respectfully are BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS, RomanceinCNY, and Romanticonn.

My favorite signings, though, are the small, library ones, with The Bigelow Library Event in Clinton, MA being my favorite.

It’s a shame these big events turn out so poorly. Poor attendance, poor communication, poor ROI for authors and readers.

If you know of any tried and true events, where things turn out well and the authors and readers leave happy, please comment with their names and maybe even links so others can learn about them. I stick mainly to the East Coast now because of travel concerns, and money issues, but I know there are other events that do well.