BookLovers Con was amazing for several different reasons. One of the best things about it was being able to meet and really talk to readers from everywhere. I got to talkOn Friday a lot to all the Libations readers who attended that (about 21 total) and I got to meet and get comfortable with a lot of them.

On Friday, one of the game events I got to attend had the same goal, to have a fun time and to meet and talk to the various readers. To this end, we played a game called “Left, Right, Center”, a dice game where usually you can win a lot of money, but in our version people ended up getting a lot of books.

Two authors started at one table (there were like 25 tables so I ended up with no author partner) and everyone played the game until time was called (about 10-12 minutes) and then no matter where you were in the game, the authors rotated to a new table and play continued. When someone rolled dice that said left or right, a token (we used pieces of candy) was handed to the person to the left or right of you. If you rolled a star, you put a token in the center, and if you rolled a circle, you kept a piece. When only one person at the table had tokens, they were the winner and won two books from the pile of books brought by the authors.

As authors sat down to each table, they got to talk to the readers as the play continued. Whenever someone had to put a token in the the center, I asked them to tell a fun fact about themselves or ask me a fun fact about me. This game was a lot of fun, I met a lot of readers, readers took away all 20 of my books (all authors brought those as prizes), and I got to tell readers some fun stuff about me and my books.

That night was the big sit-down dinner called the Faery Fantasy Gathering Dinner: When Dragons Ruled. Because of my dietary restrictions (gluten-free and dairy-free) it took me a minute to get my food straight–which gave me a minute to take some great photos of the dragon decor!

Tomorrow is the Book Bash!