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SJ Rozan has promised me a calendar with goats from her exotic travels. Matthew Clemens gets my award for most hugable, and I love to hug.

Other amazing author meetings were Annamaria Alfieri, Allen Eskens, Terry Shames, Jonathan Moore, SJ Rozan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Matthew Clemens, Diana Chambers, Leslie Budewitz, and Alafair Burke. Meeting online pals Edith Maxwell and Kaye Barley, authors and classy ladies extraordinaire was another highlight.

#Booku booty full

She is full of life and laughter, and seeing her speechless when accepting her award for The Black Hour was priceless. I was so excited to finally meet Lori Rader-Day and get her to sign The Black Hour for me. Laura DiSilverio had already sent me a copy of The Reckoning Stones and signed it, but I was able to meet her and thank her and see what a lovely person she is. Julia Dahl was a sweetheart, too, and I added Invisible City to my signed and TBR pile. Kristi Belcamino was such a delight and has the brightest smile, and I have it on expert authority (Kristopoher Zgorski) that her books are as great as she is. Yay!Īnd then there are the new authors I met and bought and can't wait to read. Right before Bouchercon, I was able to fit in the first Deborah Knott by Margaret Maron, and needless to say, I bought the rest of them and got them signed by Margaret.

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James Ziskin and his Ellie Stone series went with me, but, everytime I saw Jim, I didn't have his books with me. Also accompanying me to Bouchercon were some new authors I've just started reading and love. I'm a a bit behind on Susanna Calkins' Lucy Campion series, but I will be catching up on those this winter, as I'm crazy about seventeenth century England and Lucy navigating it. I also bought GM Malliet's latest, The Haunting Season. Of course, I picked up some more from these authors, too, as I'm trying to go back and get all the Laurie King's Mary Russell books in hardback, and I'm collecting Elly Griffiths' British covers for her Ruth Galloway series.

I love these authors dearly and am so proud to know them. King, Catriona McPherson, GM Malliet, Susanna Calkins, and Carla Buckley. Authors include Hank Phillip Ryan, Elly Griffiths/Domenica de Rosa (and Dom's publisher rep, Katrina Kruse), Anne Cleeland, Deborah Crombie, Rhys Bowen (and her dapper husband, John), Susan Elia MacNeal, Karin Salvalaggio, Laurie R. Soon, I'll feel compelled to shelve the books, but for now, I just want to enjoy looking at them and remembering what a great time I had at Bouchercon meeting my favorite authors and meeting new favorites.īooks that I took with me to Bouchercon included ones not yet signed by my favorite authors since my first Bouchercon in 2013. So, my boxes have finished arriving from Bouchercon, and I have laid my book booty out on the guestroom bed where I can ogle it appropriately.