Eat Read Rate summer dinner

So on Wednesday, July 31st I attended this really cool local Houston event called #SummerWithATwistDinner organized by Eat Read Rate and Katy Budget Books. We met at a restaurant and had dinner and got to chat with authors. We had fajitas yum! The authors were (from left to right in the awful cell phone photo I took, above):

• Julie Kenner aka J. Kenner
• Sophie Jordan aka Sharie Kohler
• Donna Grant
• Tracy Wolff aka Tessa Adams aka Tracy Deebs

They’re doing this every few months with a group of local(ish) authors. So neat! Yay Texas authors!

Anyway so tonight Sophie Jordan gave me a hug, and that was super awesome. Now she knows who I am since I’ve seen her at a bunch of local events recently. And I’m super excited for her new books coming out this fall (Foreplay) and winter (Uninvited).

I also got to chat with Julie Kenner, who not only has an awesome name, but I’ve been a long time fan ever since I read The Givenchy Code. She’s also republishing her Carpe Demon series as independently so she was just handing out the first book in that series! So I got her to sign me one and one for my co-blogger 🙂

I also learned that I need to order up some cheap (or even free if I can find a deal) business cards stat! I had to write the blog url on a scrap of paper to hand out to some new people I met. Can we say lame? Also, another blogger had a really cool sign that she had the authors take a photo with. Gotta do that. Rose, are you listening? We gotta make a sign!

Donna Grant was a new author for me but she is super cute (and fun size) and talked about her recent trip to Scotland (which made me think Jamie Fraser) so she’s cool. But, she did say the house her family was staying at was haunted! She told us some of the stories and woa it was creepy. She also said how short everyone is so that she fit right in hehe. She writes a historical and paranormal series set in Scotland.

Tracy Deebs has several different author identities and has the “Up syndrome” (aka “squirrel”) according to Julie Kenner. She writes different genre under her different names and is writing 14 books in the next year! What?! I haven’t read any of her books yet but I have purchased two of them on my kindle.

Sophie Jordan and Tracy Wolff talked about an anthology they will be a part of, called 50 first times. LOL awesome title.

It was interesting to have these ladies talk about their writing process. They’re so different. Some are total pantsers (Donna Grant) or partial pantsers (Tracy Deebs pants the beginning of the book and plots the rest). Sophie Jordan plots out all her writing and Julie Kenner likes to write TV guide blurbs and synopses.

But the most exciting time of the evening is when we started talking about the men! First the authors talked about how to create a bad boy. The quote of the night was said by Tracy Deebs/Wolff, which I also tweeted:

Quote of the night: “all bad boys have a boo boo” @SoVerySophie @juliekenner @donna_grant @TracyWolff @KatyBudgetBooks

— Julie S. (@juliecookies) August 1, 2013

Hilarious! So to write a bad boy, you gotta figure out what made him hurt, what actually turned him bad. As for good boys, you need to figure out what it is they want, what motivates them.

Anyway I had a fun evening. I hope to go to more events like this.

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