We've arrived safe and sound at the site of this year's RT
Booklovers' Convention—Kansas City , Missouri
The hotel we are at is connected to the Crown
Center
We've been reunited with most of our good friends, and I am
looking forward to meeting and greeting some of my readers. If you're in the
vicinity and want to meet me, Heather Rainier, Peyton Elizabeth and Corinne
Davies, we will be in the area known as "Club RT". Our
"misters" will also likely be not far from us, and they're worth
saying hello to as well.
And this brings me to a confession I have to make with
regard to last week's essay. I posted this correction on my Face Book page, and
I need to post it here, too.
When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. In this case, I was partly wrong.
I offer my apologies to one and all for some of the
misinformation I inadvertently included in my previous Wednesday's Words about
the RT Convention.
I was under the impression that all e-published authors were
being excluded from the Giant Book Fair at the RT Convention this year.
Certainly, the self-published authors are being excluded.
Where I was wrong was in the details. Apparently if
individual e-publishers were willing to absorb a deep discount on books and
handle the shipping costs involved in sending these books to the convention,
then their authors could indeed sign at the Saturday Giant Book Fair.
Some publishers chose not to do this, and so those authors
are unable to attend.
The RT Convention remains an excellent venue for authors as
a place to meet and greet their readers. If you are an e-pubbed author and were
thinking of attending RT next year, you should still consider doing so.
The readers who attend each year are avid in the pursuit of
their one "guilty pleasure" – reading. And because they travel from
city to city, using the event as their annual vacation, they are loyal.
RT is still a good place to be, if you write, or read,
books.
Love,
Morgan
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