Wrap up of Barbara Vey 2018 Readers Appreciation Weekend

I just came back from attending the 2018 Barbara Vey Readers Appreciation weekend. Wow, I loved meeting so many wonderful, enthusiastic romance readers. They are super readers!. There were 60 author and almost 400 readers and the event ran from Thursday night until Sunday morning.
(I'm still very tired!)

One of the highlights of the weekend was having seven readers choose to sit at my luncheon table. And the authors get to decorate the tables. Mine was an afternoon tea party at Fitzgerald House.  Those aren't hats - they're tea cozies on tea pots. I was worried I wouldn't get them all knit, but I got them done! Plus I gave them my favorite afternoon tea and made Abby's Brandy Pecan Bars (from Southern Comforts) and Russian tea cakes. My table was so much fun. We also got to have breakfast with readers.

Breakfast

Lunch!

                                   

Here are some of the other amazing tables other authors created!





Aren't they creative!






And I got to spend time with author friends, old and new.  (I wish I had taken more pictures!)

Nan, Penguin and Lenora Bell

Mary Strand, Nan, Abbie Roads

Susan Carlisle, Nan

There were a ton of games going on during the weekend and an author Q&A. (I got a question about penguins and sombreros!)  And a big book signing. I loved introducing the Fitzgerald House series to new readers.

Have you ever been to Reader Event? Where was it and what did you like or not like about it?