I had the absolute pleasure to attend the Inaugural signing event Charm City Romanticon. It was held at the turf Valley Resort in Ellicot City Maryland.
This is a Romanticon which means it’s more than a signing. Charm City Romanticon is the following:
- Small, with approximately 25 attending authors.
- Author panels: 3 panels that ticket holders rotate through over a time period of 3 hours (panels are 45 minutes long with a 15 minute break in between all the panels) If you attend with friends you can preselect the group when you purchase your tix.
- Boxed lunches with authors and attendee sitting down to eat together.
- After a 30 minute break, the signing occurs and is 3 hours in length.
- Finally, there was an evening gala. Members of the Charm City attendee group on Facebook discussed the gala and voted that it would be a PJ/come as you want gala. Most attendees wore something they were comfortable wearing. This was also an attendee and author mingling event.
I enjoy author signings but I haven’t attended a signing that included events, so this was different from anything I have attended before. While the idea of socializing doesn’t appeal to every bookworm, this signing felt very supportive, kind and people were friendly. I did have friends who attended, and it was lovely to spend time with them but I also met people whom I knew on line but hadn’t met in real life.
The best part: my TBR is crying after this event! I met some wonderful new authors and I‘ve either read their books before the signing or will be reading them!
The following authors attended:
- AM Johnson
- Charissa Gracyk
- Ember Davis
- Fiona Davenport
- Freya Barker
- Golden Angel
- Hannah McBride
- Jaime Lewis
- Jami Albright
- Janice Whiteaker/Jenna Westbrook/ Josie Watts
- Jess Bryant
- Kaylee Rose
- Lena Hendrix
- LJ Evans
- Maryanne Jordan
- Megyn Ward
- Patrica D. Eddy
- PJ Fiala
- Rachel Rivers
- Reina Torres
- Samantha A. Cole
- Stephanie Rose
- Sueanne Laquer
- Tarina Deaton
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