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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Hi, I'm Elle. I'm based in Auckland, New Zealand. I'm the mother of two young adults, the wife of an entrepreneurial gamer and the Queen of Unfinished Projects. This blog will contain poems, short stories, possibly photos and book reviews if you're lucky, and my thoughts on a variety of topics. Hope you enjoy it. |
Prompt: It's National Book Month. Are you reading anything special this month? ~ "Blogging Circle of Friends "  I love getting autographed physical copies of books, but it's quite tricky when I live on the other side of the world from most of the authors I read. I am so jealous of Mumsy  going to GRL. Man, that would be my idea of heaven. How amazing would that be?! So very cool.But I am lucky in a couple of ways. Firstly, Nalini Singh lives in the same city as me, and she does personalised autographed copies of her books through an indie bookstore that's not too far from me. I could do pickup from them (and have in the past) but postage is also pretty cheap as we're in the same city. I just ordered a personalised, autographed copy of her new Guild Hunter book which is coming out in physical format next month - Archangel Resurrection. It's a paranormal series about angels and vampires, and I own the whole series (16 books) in either ebook or audio book format (the narrator does an amazing job with the various accents in the audio versions), and I own three of the books already in physical format with personalised autographs. I got those in-person from Nalini at different book-signing events around Auckland. Another one, which is the only m/m book in the series (so far) I got autographed for my daughter for Christmas last year, through this little indie bookstore. Funnily enough, it was actually LostGhost: Seeking & Learning  who introduced me to her and encouraged me to go to the first signing event. I was able to send Laxmi a personalised signed book as a thank you for introducing me to an author I loved, so that was pretty cool. I don't think I'll get Archangel Resurrection until next month though, due to publishing delays, but I'll be reading the ebook version this month.The other thing I can do is order personalised autographed books online. Not many authors offer this, but a few do. I have several of Cara Dee's books that I've bought online and she has personalised and autographed for me. I believe she's re-opening her order form (it's only open about twice a year) this coming week, and I want to get the last book in the Auctioned series as I have all the rest as autographed physical copies. Her Aftermath series is also amazing and I have that too. I want to re-read the whole Auctioned series now that it's finished, and will definitely be ordering Prepared as soon as the order form is open. I just discovered yesterday that RJ Scott also does online orders of personalised autographed books, so I ordered Single, The Heart of Texas, The Crooked Tree Ranch, and Kyle from her. I'm not sure if I'll just read them straight away or put them away as Christmas presents to myself. I think I'll re-read the ebook versions in the meantime while I wait for the physical copies to turn up.  Do you know any authors who offer personalised autographed books online? Have you ever bought any? Whose books would you love to get? My list to answer that question is way too long, but if I was going to GRL, I'd be definitely checking out these authors: Kiki Clark Kim Fielding Sloane Kennedy Tempeste O'Riley Alice Winters L. A. Witt Eliot Grayson Riley Hart Reese Knightley E.M. Lindsey Nora Phoenix Jaime Reese AJ Sherwood Have you ever been to a book convention? The only events I've been to are the Auckland Writer's Festival (where I got a Nalini Singh book one year and a poetry book another year) and two Nalini Singh signings. That's it. Would love to go to something like GRL. Tell me about the ones you've been to, so I can live vicariously through you! |
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