RAGT Update

Hello, everyone! Last weekend I attended the Annual Reader & Author Get Together. I have attended that convention every year since 2011, except for 2020 and 2021. So this was the first time in a few years. I had a blast. It was so good seeing people.

Some highlights for me was the raffles. All the money raised went to Cancer Free Kids. In less than 30 hours the raffles won a total of $44,086!!! Isn’t that awesome? I made the T-shirt quilt to raffle off and that was won by one of the hardworking volunteers. And I won a basket too! A coffee lover’s basket. See? One of my favorite things in the basket was the cup. 🙂 There were several books and you will see some of those in an upcoming newsletter giveaway.

Another thing I enjoyed was the book signing. Being a shy introvert, I am always nervous about signings. But at Lori Foster’s con it is pretty easy because everyone is so nice. And it helped that I had a team of helpers to carry my books and swag, fetch me water, help me with making change and putting ‘signed by the author’ stickers on the books I sold. Huge kudos to these gals! Christine, Jessica and Alyssa are the best.

I came home with a a lot of swag. I won blackout bingo hosted by Brian Feehan. His mother, Christine Feehan, was unable to attend but she still provided a bunch of raffle baskets, sponsored a meal, and sent prizes for bingo. I won and so did a friend, Jessica Bowes. The grand prize was a lovely big bag stuffed with great swag. Jessica and I split it. I think we were both happy with the results.

So I came home with a bunch of great stuff that I plan to share in an upcoming newsletter giveaway. I also came home with Covid. I think it is a pretty light case, but all the fun things I planned to do this week on my vacation have been put on hold while I take multiple naps and read some of the books I got at RAGT. I hope to get a newsletter sent out during the last week of June with links to enter the Books & Swag Giveaway.

I hope you all are doing well and having a great summer, or winter, for those of you on that side of the world, and finding time to enjoy a few books.

HAPPY READING!