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Bookish Adventures at Literary Love Savannah 2024
My second year attending Literary Love Savannah was better than the first and the first was pretty freaking stellar. It filled my soul in more ways than I can count and this is my highlight reel.
'Oracle' by S.T. Rucker at the National Black Book Festival 2019
‘Oracle’ by S.T. Rucker at the National Black Book Festival 2019
I am pleased to announce that this year I will in be in Houston, Texas at the National Black Book Festival exhibiting my novel, Oracle.
Special Limited Edition Cover
Oracle by S.T. Rucker is available to read for free online at Wattpad or you can get your copy on Lulu.com.
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Conversations | An Origin Story
Let me share an interestingly sad fact with you guys: I’ve rarely had a best friend. I had one from 6th grade until my freshman year of college, and that’s the longest running friendship I’ve ever had. I always envied the girls in the books I’d read that had best friends since they were in diapers. I wanted that kind of bond that lasted for years and years, but no matter how hard I tried, every…
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Author Confessions: Making Conventions Easy and Awesome
Author Confessions: Making Conventions Easy and Awesome
I’ve a confession to make: I am an introvert.
Surprise, surprise, right? I tend to agree with CB Blake that a lot of authors (I’m not going to say most, but very likely) tend to be introverts. The fact that we can lose ourselves in our own worlds, carry on book-long conversations with our characters, and avoid contact with any real humans is a huge part of being a writer.
And yet, despite my…
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Our Mom is visiting me in Brooklyn this weekend. When she comes I always look for things that we haven’t done before so when I finally realized that BookCon was going to be at the Javits Center while she was going to be here we decided to go. Both of our parents inspired our love for reading. Mom has already 81 books in 2017. Putting my 25 books to shame. She’s never been to anything like this before and my only convention experience was at BookRiot Live. Which was tiny compared to this. The Javits Center is huge. Not surprising since this is also the home to New York Comic Con. We decided first to explore the vendors as we got our bearings. Pretty much every major publisher was there with a mini store and most a signing area. Now there were signing areas that you had to sign up for ahead of time and then smaller ones that you had to line up for. It was kind of confusing what was what. Also, we seemed to always miss all the free giveaways the publishers were handing out but that’s ok. I’ll live. After we had a quick bite to eat we headed to hear Rainbow Rowell talk. I’ve read all of her books but Mom hasn’t. Before the talk began, Mom asked if any of her books would make her cry and I was like yes but I’ll lend her Attachments because of all Rainbow’s books that seems to have the less tears. I think. She was just a delightful as I imagined her to be but the one comment that stuck me was talking about Eleanor and Park and sad it is that having a fat female protagonist was somehow revolutionary. We all know someone who is overweight. We have seen them in relationships, married and have kids so why wouldn’t they have their own love stories? After Rainbow, we went back to the vendor floor. We each bought a few books, tote bags and shirts before heading down to hear Jeffery Tambor. The Arrested Development star has a new memoir coming out and after seeing him I want to read it. He was funny, smart and completely honest. We then went to our final panel of the day with Maggie Stiefvater, Kami Garcia, Laini Taylor and Marissa Meyer about Magic and World Building moderated by Daniel Jose Older. I adore all these authors books (Mr. Older’s book are on my to read list) so it was interesting to hear how they all go about crafting their stories. The most interesting part was talking about you are always building a world no matter if you are making a world from scratch or drawing from the real world. I’ve never thought of that. Maggie said that authors talk about how if they were to assign each of them to write about this room they would all write it differently because they are writing from their perspective their view and how that is reality but not completely real. It was an interesting talk. It was then that we decided to leave as it was a full day of books and fun. I’m glad we did it because it was something new and different. My one complaint was that it would have been better if they had clearer signage of where things were because it was kind of hard to figure out where things were. We had to wander around to find things. Either then that it was a fun day.
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Mom and I went to BookCon and it was a lot of Fun! Our Mom is visiting me in Brooklyn this weekend. When she comes I always look for things that we haven't done before so when I finally realized that BookCon was going to be at the Javits Center while she was going to be here we decided to go.
After zipping over to the windy city last year, Book Expo returns to New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and will run from Wednesday, May 31, through Friday, June 2, with the fourth annual Book Con, a consumer-facing, pop culture–focused gathering for fans, happening Saturday, June 3, and Sunday, June 4. One of the big changes this year is the branding shift—from BookExpo America (BEA) to the truncated Book Expo—in recognition of the global reach of the show.
Who’s coming to Book Expo and LJ’s Day of Dialog?
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Chats, Libraries, Conventions: How A Writer Makes Friends
As an author, I get several invitations a month from my publisher to participate in library and book conventions. They all come with a price tag, some of them reasonable and some of them out of this world. None of my previous publishers presented me with this “opportunity,” so I’ve made a few i...
New Post has been published on http://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/money-matters/publishers-librariesconventions-writer-makes-friends/
Chats, Libraries, Conventions: How A Writer Makes Friends
As an author, I get several invitations a month from my publisher to participate in library and book conventions. They all come with a price tag, some of them reasonable and some of them out of this world. None of my previous publishers presented me with this “opportunity,” so I’ve made a few i...
