Autographed Books I Have, Authors I Have Met and the Story of My Newest Collection

Before becoming an author I actually didn’t care about getting autographed copies of books. I didn’t really see what the excitement was really all about. This is probably because before I was an author I never had an autographed copy of a book now I am enjoying creating a collection of autographed copies from authors who I have either met and like or just authors I like.

The first autographed copy book I ever got was sold online in a promotion for a new Warrior’s book by Erin Hunter. At this time I just wanted one because it was also on sale and I buy all of this author’s books. I didn’t picture the book here in my little autographed copy gallery because I can’t find it at this time and can’t remember which number it is either.

Anyway the next autographed book I got was Born Without a Tail by C.A. Wulff. I won this one in a contest the author was holding in a Goodreads group called All About Animals. Like the previous book I got I wanted this one more because I wanted to read it more than anything else. However this one is the book that first began to get me excited about receiving autographed copies. I knew when I won it that it was going to be autographed but I didn’t know that C.A. Wulff was the type of author who also writes short messages along with her autograph. Before this I also used to sell books as soon as I was done with them. This book, when I got it, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to resell. I had actually planned on selling my Warrior’s book before this but after receiving C.A. Wulff’s I changed my mind and that’s when I started my collection of autographed copies.

The next autographed copy book I received was I Was a Teenage Mad Scientist which is Book One in a series called the Promethean Society. It was written by Derek J. Goodman and I received it upon winning a giveaway on Goodreads. You will be seeing my review of this book on my blog at a later time.

After this I won an autographed book in a different giveaway on the blog of author H.Y. Hanna. H.Y. Hanna was giving away copies of the first book in her Big Honey Dog Mysteries series, Curse of the Scarab. I previously read and reviewed the eBook version of this book and you will get to read my review on this blog at a later time.

Next I met Chris Lambert, and bought a book he wrote called the Galaxy Clan which is book #1 in the Bystander Adventure Series, but don’t ask me where you can find it for purchase. I wasn’t able to find it anywhere except from the author himself whom I was lucky enough to meet during my event at the mall which went pretty badly as far as sales go so I had plenty of time to visit with him and another author he was with, Sean Forney. Both authors were very nice. Unfortunately not being able to find the book online also means I can’t post a nice picture of the cover either.

Another author I met, and feel like mentioning today, was at a Quarter Auction. Nicole Burr wrote a book called Esra: The Keepers of LeVara. While it is available on Amazon in both formats I was given a business card and an email to contact so I could get an autographed copy. However no matter how I put it in the email wouldn’t go through and I couldn’t find the Facebook page listed on the business card either so I have been unable to contact the author. Hopefully one day I will be able to get an autographed copy of this book but I do not yet have one.

The next one you guys should already know about as I made a blog post about it when it happened, but at an event called Books and Cooks I met author Burton W. Cole who was a lot of fun. I got an autographed copy of his book, Bash and the Pirate Pig which is also book #1 in the Bash series for children.

Next I was lucky enough to be able to be one of the fifty authors at an event Author Ally which was held at an awesome bookstore called Loganberry Books. Before the event I got the chance to go to and explore this really large bookstore. While I was there I found out that they had autographed copies of a book I wanted, The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke so of course I had to buy it. I also bought some of the books they had on clearance. This section was priced very well and I could afford to buy several of them which, as you can probably guess already, I did!

So now, on my autographed book timeline, we have arrived at the latest event I attended which was Author Alley at Loganberry Books. I met a lot of great authors and bought more books than I sold. While there I bought: Weird Ohio and The Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories by James A. Willis, Shepherds and Girls Gone Great from J Drew Brumbaugh, It Came From Ohio by James Renner, and Book One in the Tales of the Children of Stone series, Voices in Crystal, by Mary R. Woldering. This event was a lot of fun and maybe one day I will get the chance to go to it again either as an author like I did this year or just to buy new autographed books to read!