If you have a free hour on the afternoon of Saturday, August 22, I’ll be chatting with Olivia Dade and Liana De la Rosa to celebrate their recent releases: World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon and Mutual Discord. I’ll of course also talk about You, Me, & the Conspiracy, and we’re going to play some fun games.
It’s free to attend, and it should be available after the fact on the YouTube channel for Love’s Sweet Arrow. I’d love to see you there!
First, exactly three months from today, You, Me, & the Conspiracy will be out in the world in print, ebook, and audio. If you haven’t preordered it yet, I would LOVE it if you did. The preorder bonus is coming, but you’ll be able to register for it (a Christmas-themed epilogue) later on. As I’m sure you’ve heard from every author, preorder numbers really matter to publishers. And we all say it because it’s true. ; )
Second, it’s Stuff Your Kindle day! Just visit RomanceBookworms.com, and take a gander of what’s on offer. I’ve made The One You Hate–the third book in my Political Persuasions series–free for the next few days. So if you’ve never read that one, you can grab it at the ideal price: nothing.
I did a quick skim through the site, and some participating authors I’ve enjoyed include Jackie Lau, Adriana Anders, Zoe York, Zara Keane, Nicola Davidson, Aydra Richards, Kate Pearce, Toni Anderson, Kate Meader, Reese Ryan, and Edie Cay. If I’ve missed any hidden gems, please let me know.
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FYI, I’m going to be at Novel Grounds bookstore in Chesapeake, VA, to support the latest release of my friend, Stacey Agdern, on January 31. If you’re around, I would love to see you and/or sign some books for you! Tickets are free (but help the store know how many books to get). You can reserve yours here.
I did attend a signing last weekend at the Blackwater Regional Library in Smithfield, VA, to celebrate the library’s 100th anniversary. You can read about the event, and see some pictures, here.
Release day for Bad Reputation is ALMOST here, and I wanted to let you know about a free, virtual live event I’m doing with Fresh Fiction on Wednesday, Oct 2: their video bookclub! It’ll run from 7 p.m. CST until 9 p.m., and we’ll be chatting and playing some games, and then I’ll answer any questions that might come in from readers. You can register here, and I’d love to see you there.
ETA: while the Eventbrite may read Oct 3, I emailed the organizers and confirmed that the event will be on Wednesday, Oct 2. So the graphic is correct!
As a reminder, I’m also doing a free, virtual event on Oct 8 with The New Romantics bookstore and author Jennifer Snow (more info here!), and I’m signing at Novel Grounds in Chesapeake, VA, on Oct 12 (more info here!). The latter does require tickets, but it comes with a paperback of Bad Reputation.
Y’all, we are so close to Bad Reputation‘s release on October 1! I already mentioned the signing at Novel Grounds on October 12 in Chesapeake, Virginia, but if you’re not in the mid-Atlantic, that won’t work for you.
Oh, but I have you covered. I’m doing a virtual event with Jennifer Snow and The New Romantics, a romance bookstore in Orlando. (Digression: aren’t all the romance bookstores popping up the BEST? I love them all.) It’ll be on October 8 at 6 p.m. EST. Registration is required, but it’s free. You can get all the details and reserve your spot here. I would love, love, love to see you there.
So I am doing my very first in-person reader event at Novel Grounds, a romance book in Chesapeake, Virginia, on October 12. You can reserve a ticket here, and the price includes a print copy of Bad Reputation—which I will happily sign for you.
Until now, I haven’t done any signings because I didn’t feel like a “real” author. I still don’t, to be honest. But I’m trying to fake it until I make it and to be more confident about promo. (Is my confession adding or detracting from the effect?) It would certainly help me own it if someone shows up for this event. So I would love, love, LOVE to see you there.
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It’s been an age, and I’m so sorry about that! I have fun and exciting book news (!!!) that I cannot talk about yet. But as a result, I’ve been stuck in my writing cave since late May. I’m approaching the finish line on a draft though, and I hope to emerge–phoenix-like–from the ashes soon.
But on Thursday, July 13th, I’m going to stick my head out to be on Romance Happy Hour, and I would absolutely LOVE to see you there. You can join Shana Gray, Dawn Luedecke, Dylann Crush, and me on Facebook or YouTube at 8 p.m. CT. I’m going to read from Chick Magnet, and I’ll be giving away a print copy. I’m certain it’ll be a great time.
One thing that you might not know about me is that I love classic Hollywood movies. As a kid in the 90s, I had most definitely seen more movies made before 1970 than from after it. The first letter I ever wrote to a celebrity? It was to Bob Hope. And yes, he sent me an autograph back. Most of my favorites were musicals.
This Saturday, I get to bring all that knowledge to the table when Brianne Gillen, Jen DeLuca, and I talk the 1948 Judy Garland-Gene Kelly musical The Pirate over at the Love’s Sweet Arrow YouTube channel. This movie is, quite simply, bananas. If you’ve ever wanted to watch Kelly with a mustache wearing short shorts and dancing with a sword in front of a wall of flame, this movie gives it you. No, really. It does.
Now that I have you attention, you can sign up to attend the event here, and I’d love to see you.
If you’d been thinking, “Wow, I need to brighten an afternoon with an event featuring two romance superstars plus, for some inexplicable reason, Emma Barry,” then I have the surprise of a lifetime. Olivia Dade, Therese Beharrie, and I are doing just such an event with Love’s Sweet Arrow at 1 pm CST on November 5, 2022. All the details are at Event Brite, and I would love to see you there.
Tomorrow evening, I’ll be moderating a panel on Love’s Sweet Arrow’s YouTube channel to celebrate the release of Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert, an absolutely delightful rom-com that riffs on You’ve Got Mail/The Shop Around the Corner and modern fandom. Olivia will be there, and so will the wonderful Mia Sosa, and it’s going to be AWESOME. For more information, check out the LSA page here, and you can register here.
Also, I forgot to mention this in advance, but the country’s other romance bookstore, The Ripped Bodice, teamed up with Besame Cosmetics to do a vintage 60s makeup tutorial for Star Dust. You can watch it here, and it’s super fun and interesting. I’ve actually been wearing eye shadow more as a result, though I’m not nearly this glamorous.
Finally, I’ve been writing. Like a lot. Like I might actually finish a full-length book again. It’s not done, so I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but it feels so good to be writing sort of consistently, to not hate every word I put on the page, and to generally feel like I might want to tell stories again. Just so, so good.
Emma Barry 