This month while looking for author booksignings I noticed that a number of authors are going to appear at book festivals around the country over the next few months. I became intrigued and starting searching for book festivals, as well as single-author signings, over the next few months. While many of the book festivals I checked out seem to mainly feature literary authors (not that there’s anything wrong with that), a few also have one or more romance authors, as well as many popular mystery authors.  A quick search revealed the following festivals over the next few months:

• AJC Decatur Book Festival, August 31-September 2, Decatur, GA.
• Kerrytown BookFest, September 9, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writers Conference, September 13-15, St. Augustine, FL.
• Library of Congress National Book Festival, September 22-23, Washington, D.C.
• Sonoma County Book Festival, September 22, Santa Rosa, CA.
• Brooklyn Book Festival, September 23, Brooklyn, NY.
• Baltimore Book Festival, September 28-30, […]

Have you been to any booksignings lately? I was lucky enough to attend a signing by one of my favorite mystery writers, Rhys Bowen, on tour for her latest Molly Murphy mystery – Bless The Bride – set in early 1900 New York City.

I haven’t read any of the Molly series, but am a big fan of Ms. Bowen’s Lady Georgie series set in post-WWI England. I found Ms. Bowen to be as delightful and entertaining in person as she is in her books.  For about the first 45 minutes she updated us on both of her series and talked about her method of writing. Then, she took questions from the audience until we completely ran out of things to ask.

I was interested to learn that she starts a book with a very vague idea, such as, “wouldn’t it be fun to send Molly to Chinatown” (the plot of her latest book). While she does extensive […]