I attended the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Tradeshow in Mobile today. Wow–what a great time! I love booksellers. 🙂

Here are a few pics:

This is my local RWA Chapter’s booth, right after setup on Friday. Pictured are Allison Knight and Margaret P. Cunningham. Hey, ladies!

Earlier today, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the wonderful sales ladies from Kensington. Susie was even kind enough to pose for a pic:

I was very happy to meet Susie–the woman works crazy hard getting books into the hands of booksellers. Thank you, Susie!!

Ah, do you see those books in front of the lovely Susie? Look closely…those are ARCs of Jacquelyn Frank‘s new book, ECSTASY (the first book in her new series–The Shadowdwellers.) Uh, huh…jealous, aren’t you? And, seriously, that cover is GORGEOUS. This new series looks fabulous. Fabulous.

I also had the chance to stop by and visit with Deborah Smith and Deb Dixon of Belle Books. I’ve been a fan of these ladies for years. I still have their Loveswept titles on my shelf. Keepers, baby, keepers.

(This is a shot of Deb Dixon and Deborah Smith talking to my RWA chapter mate, Margaret Cunningham.)

I loved the covers that Belle had–covers designed by Deb. So, of course, I had to take a pic of those, too.

And, speaking of covers. I told Deborah Smith how much I loved the cover of BITE ME, and so, guess what I’ve got in my hot hands right now? An ARC of that story! I do think a great read is waiting on me. I will definitely post a review soon.

I didn’t take pictures of the booksellers because, well, I didn’t want to scare them by whipping out my camera and snapping shots as we talked. But, I did have a wonderful time chatting with everyone. I ran out of copies of my books, but I plan to take some more tomorrow. Do you want to know the favorite line (lines) I heard at SIBA? They went something like this… “Oh, I love paranormals! Can’t keep on the shelves. Anything with vampires or demons sells like crazy.” Ah, music. Such sweet music. It wasn’t just one bookseller telling me this either; I heard it over and over again. Every time I heard talk like this, I had to smile. A really, really big, face hurting smile

Speaking of hurting…Man, my feet hurt. And I’m a tired, so, um, I think I’ll call it a night.

Go, SIBA!!

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