"I've done several booksignings, from the massive ones at the RWA and Romantic Times conventions to smaller ones at bookstores. They all have their charms. At the massive signings there is a lot of energy and the thrill of signing your book in the same room as million dollar authors. Hundreds of authors, thousands of buyers. But there is something very special about being in a small bookstore with just a few other authors and meeting fans from the local area who've wandered into the store.

At my last signing there was one lady who I was talking to and I pointed out one of my earlier books, Promises To Keep, under Janet Miller, my non-erotic writing name. She looked at the cover, then looked at me... "I have that book...YOU WROTE IT?" She didn't know I wrote under two names and she really liked that book!

And that's what is cool. Meeting a fan who didn't even know she was a fan...until she actually met me."

"I love being a published author for a gazillion reasons. Being able to meet people who've read my books and want me to sign my name inside one is like a fantasy come true. Being a big romance fan, I relate to the readers who come over and are all excited about being able to make contact with someone whose work has touched them -- made them laugh or cry, caused them to stay up when they should have been asleep hours ago."

"Book signings are sort of a mixed blessing...there's that period of time when you're first arranging your books on the table, hoping like hell someone will show up. The sense you're hawking your wares on a street corner, that "ache in the pit of your gut" when someone picks up your book, reads the blurb and says, "Oh, I never read anything like this..." It's all offset, however, by the wonderful readers who do like your stories, who are curious about what's coming next, who have driven for miles to have a well-read copy of your book signed. Of course, the best part of all is a signing where you're not alone, when you've got other authors with you and terrific, supportive store managers and employees who make the day absolutely fly by. Writing is such a solitary profession--it takes me awhile to slip into the "extroverted author" mode, but once I get there...what a hoot!"

"A week and a half after making my first two book signing appearances, I'm still thinking about them. There were those initial moments of feeling like a deer in the headlights as people approached the table, sometimes with downcast eyes, making me wonder if they wanted me to actually say something to them. But soon it was hard not to talk — to readers, to fellow authors, to booksellers. And by the end of the day, I knew I’d volunteer to participate in a book signing again. Why? Because it’s a pleasure to be a place teeming with books and readers who feel the same way about the written word as I do."

"Going to a booksigning is a very special occasion for me. I don’t do a lot of on-line promotion the way some writers do, but meeting readers in person - oh yes! It's much easer for me to chat with somebody face to face than “chat” on my computer. Having a reader come up and say they liked this or that book makes it real. It makes all the work I put into my writing worthwhile and reminds me why I do it in the first place. To bring that smile to that face of that one fan. And when there’s more than one? It’s bliss. Being in California with my writing partner, Scott Carpenter, and meeting so many wonderful people - well, that’s about as good as it gets for me. Truly the trip of a lifetime and I can’t tell you how happy I was to have made it. Bottom line? I love booksignings - I love meeting readers."

"This was my first experience with a booksigning like this - quite different to the big Bookfair at the Romantic Times convention. This was much more personal and a lot of fun - I'm glad Sahara talked me into it. LOL Meeting readers like this is wonderful, and I was thrilled to have a chance to chat with so many nice people who took the time out of their weekend to come by and say hello. It's nice to be able to talk to folks who haven't read my books yet - I hope I convinced a few to try out my stuff."