My First Time

           

Yep, time for me to write another blog. *sigh* You have a dirty mind because I know what you were thinking from the title of today’s blog, you nosy heifers. Today’s actual topic is Authors Love them or Hate Them???

Wait. Scratch that…maybe, that is another blog for me to write later. Mwahahahaha. Nope, today is about meeting authors. I will tell you about my first author meeting. I know this is going to be hard to believe, but I have fan girl moments all the time. I usually am all alone, but I have them. My boys at work are so tired of hearing about my authors. I am surprised they haven’t killed me yet.

Moving on to my first author meeting…hmmmm, let me think a moment. Oh yes, I remember now. It was just a few years ago. Now let me just tell you that I never in my wildest dreams thought I would meet an author. I live in the middle of nowhere Illinois; no one ever comes here so I just never let the thought cross my mind. Then one day I was talking to a friend in Nebraska whom I was going to visit for the first time. I was checking to see what date would be good for both of us. Then I found the perfect week. Sherrilyn Kenyon, with whom I am slightly obsessed, was going to be in Kansas City, Missouri which was only three hours from my friend’s house. I figured hell I was already driving nine hours to meet Debs so three hours to meet Sherri, piece of cake.

The trip was planned and off I went. I spent a few days with Debs and we planned the trip in detail. Okay, not really. I just put the address in my gps. I put in some of my favorite music, and we hit the road.  I took every hardback book I had of Sherri’s along with the first book of each series.

The great thing about Sherri is she will sign all your books, if the stores will let her. We got to the bookstore early and scoped out the best seats. We wandered around the mall for a bit and let me tell you that was a huge ass mall. It was about three hours till the signing so back to the bookstore we went.

We picked our seats and copped a squat to wait. More and more people started showing up and pretty soon it was standing room only. I was excited and very nervous as well. I mean hell it was SHERRILYN KENYON!!!

Finally the time was upon us. She came out to huge applause. Dianna Love tours with her so she keeps everyone entertained while Sherri is signing. I had read Dianna because she writes the Bad Series with Sherri. They talked and answered questions for about an hour then the actual signing began. Dianna was giving away lots of swag and kept everyone in stitches while we waited. I was having so much fun I started to relax.

The line was long, and it was going on hour three of waiting when I noticed there were just a few of us left. I started to get nervous again. We stood up to get in line, and I started to get really jumpy and twitchy. Finally, I was the next person in line. I started to panic. What do I say? Will I make a fool out of myself? Will I toss my cookies all over her. All the scenarios played through my head at warp speed.

She looks up and smiles and asked me my name and said something about me being a huge fan judging by the amount of books I had brought with me. Just like that I relaxed because she made me feel so comfortable just by smiling and mentioning my love of books. She never made me feel rushed and she took the time to answer some questions that I had and posed with us for pictures. I am so glad she was my first author.

Now you know about my first time. What was yours? Or are you still holding on to your author cherry for just the right one to come along?  If you have had a wonderful author experience and would like to share, just contact us and we can set it up for you.


Sinfully Sarcastic,

Shmuttmeister