Authors are people too…

Okay, so duh.

I was at the Barbara Vey Luncheon this weekend. As a reader. Or maybe as a writer disguised as a reader. Because my author brain kept popping through. Like when my table author gave us a coffee cup in our Southern Belle Starter Kit (thanks Kimberly Lang!). I listened to her talk about how nerdy it was for her to get so excited about her fictional coffee shop having it’s own logo.

All I could think about is why Coffee, Books, and More (Jill’s bookstore in the Tourist Trap mysteries) didn’t have real coffee cups. So now, I’ve got another item on my to do list. :)

And when I listened to authors listing off the multiple genres they had written in during the Q and A session, I got lost. This is one of my sins, lack of branding. So I watched the authors who did it well -Heather Graham had a real Mardi Gras face mask creator at her table. Angie Fox’s table gave readers a taste of her new southern ghost cozy mystery series. One message, one story.

As someone who writes cowboys (The Bull Rider series), cozy mysteries (The Tourist Trap series) and paranormal (The Council series), I realized my voice might be getting lost in the clan.

So I brought home a lot of ideas and thoughts and, of course, books.

Have you attended a reader’s event? I loved it. (And not just because I won Heather Graham’s generous door prize.)

Lynn

Oh, public service announcement… Public Service Announcement – The Bull Rider’s Keeper (little brother all grown up) is up for a RONE award and voting is this week. If you feel so inclined, I’d love your vote Check out Contemporary Romance: Cops, Jocks and Cowboy. Click here to vote.