*SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!*
Ahhhhh… better. I had to let that out. I’ve been trying to contain my excitement as we’ve been preparing this awesome BOOK SIGNING event, called BOOK BASH!! We’ve already got over 40 authors signed on!!
*does a little happy dance* It’s gonna be huge, people!! PLUS! It’ll be held at the Doubletree by Hilton at the entrance to Universal Studios (across the street)!! Which means after the signing, it’s party time (or vacation time… whatever you want. You’re in Orlando!! The land of the Magic Kingdom and all that cool stuff.)
The hotel is located only 12 miles from the Orlando International Airport, is right across the street from Universal Studios, Seaworld is only 6 miles away and Disney (and everything it has to offer) is only 10 miles from the hotel. We’ve negotiated amazing rates with the hotel starting at $79 per night! And the hotel is gorgeous!!! I’ve stayed there personally many times. As a matter a fact, I stayed there just a couple of weekends ago with these twoooo…. who wanted to personally invite you, themselves. 😉 *grins*
And Colleen and Katja… it’s Ma-REESE. 😉 Tee hee!!
Click here to check out the entire website for Book Bash (a work in progress, information and authors will be added daily).
Wanna meet…?
- Colleen Hoover
- Jamie McGuire
- Tina Reber
- Kristen Ashley
- Sylvia Day
- Tarryn Fisher
- Karina Halle
UPDATE!! We have confirmation that our official Book Seller at the event (for the published authors) will be Books-A-Million. I’m telling you guys… HUGE!!!
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That is so cool!!
Sounds like so much fun!!!
I wanna go, I wanna go!!! 🙂
Wow! A good time for sure.
Lise and Kirsten… as much as we’ve bemoaned our need for more authors signing here, y’all better come!!!
Oh Maryse, what an amazing list of authors! I think every one of my favourites is going to be there.
It’s times like this that it sucks to live in the UK and be terrified of flying 🙁
Wow…this is awesome!!
OMG!!! wish I lived in the US so much right now! Cant believe how many amazing authors are going to be there and all my favourites too! Have so much fun girls and make sure you tell the rest of us book addicts all about it 😀
OMG OMG OMG !!! I am freaking out !!!! I’m sooo there ! This is amazing !!!!
Finally something in my area!! I cannot wait!
Yay! its official!
Would love to come to this, I wonder if I could get a flight from England ,have a little vacation in Orlando at the same time? This may actually be a possibility.
MA – REEEEEESE I may get to meet you yet 🙂
OMG…I am so there with you Krystal
WOW Maryse!!!! SO there!! Just ridiculously HUGE!!! Looking forward to finally meeting you! Wait are you going to the Boston event??
Oh I ammmmmm wayyyy too happy right now. I wanna meet you all. There’ll be some squee’ing that day, I know it!!
Happy, I’d love to go to Boston! I’m still up in the air with it, (work-wise), but that would rock!
Wow, our little book signing in Orlando next month has nothing on this! So I’ll happily be going to both. 🙂 But I hope you can come next month Maryse! Tara Sivec, Colleen Hoover, Katja Millay, Katie Ashley, RK Lilley, Raine Miller, Abbi Glines and many more will be there as well!
Our Fort Myers book club will be there!!! This is an epic event!!!
This is AWESOME! The book club is in Fort Myers, FL…..ROAD TRIP!
AWESOME NEWS!!! I’m SQUEEEING!!!
OMG! Speechless!
This is so exciting! i’ve seen many book signing but they are usually so far away! This is only an hour away, so I can’t wait my favorite authors will be there and I can’t wait!!!!Yay!!!!!!!
Awesome. I’m so there.
Finally!!!! A book signing in my own backyard!!!! SQUEEEEE!! I am so going!!!!
I’m 4 1/2 hours DRIVE. I’M GOING!!!! (aka Paige)
Sounds promising and truly exciting, would love to be there. 🙂
2 hours from me I could drive. I’ll have to see how the funds are but I REALLY want to go!!!!!!!
OMG!!!! I can get Walking Disaster Signed!!!!!
Sign me up. Super excited!
Oh WOW!!! Wish I could go, sounds wonderful. Keep us posted Maryse. Looking forward to your description of the event! 🙂
Yay! Finally in my area!!! I live in Miami and am now planning a road trip to Orlando!!!
YAY!! Right in my own backyard!!!! The list of authors is amazing! I am super excited about this!!!!!
So exciting. I’m in. Are authors coming by invitation only? Also, what is the point off Sylvain Reynard being represented by sometime else? She can’t sign his books. Do you expect more authors?
Sylvain Reynard’s assistant will be bringing his pre-signed books. And ’cause Sylvain Reynard, in any capacity, is pretty cool! 😉
only a 30 minute drive for me I can not wait! My Hilton points came in handy for this weekend wooohooo!!!!!
WOW!! What an amazing list…..Congratulations on putting together this great event..sign me up!
YES!! Walking Disaster will be out by then!! *squeeeeee* Me too, I’m getting mine signed!
Woo-hoo! What a line-up! Sounds like FUN! 🙂
I have died and gone to heaven. This is an hour from me. I am so going.
Maryse what an epic event! I’m attending the RT convention in Kansas city in May. The few authors on my favorites list who aren’t going to be there ARE going to be at your event! Like JA Redmerski! I’m jealous! Any chance YOU will be at the KC event? I would love to meet you, too!
OMG!!! Maryse, thank you so much for organizing this. I love those authors. I’m definitely going to be there!!! YAY!!!! Woohoo!!!!
Enn, are you going to be there for SR??
Squee….I’m so excited. Is Katie Ashley or Michelle Valentine going to be there?
Okay… come on, Kirsten….let’s take the day off and GO!!! 🙂
WE ARE THERE *jumps for joy* *happy dance* 😉
Maryse, will Sylvian Reynard be there or is it only his signed books that will be available?
woohoo! I can’t wait!
OMG!OMG! My friend just told me and I am so going.Will make this a mini family vacay!!!
I am totally going… About 1.5 2 hours from me. So excited! Anything else we need to know? Just show up?!
OMG OMG OMG!!! I sent a message through the site’s contact form, but if you need help, I am local and willing! SO EXCITED. *jumps up and down* *hyperventilating*
If I’m able to go, I’d love to read the books of the authors who are actually going! Sounds like a reasonable thing to do, right? I’ve only read Colleen Hoover’s books from the list though and have a couple others on my to-read list. I haven’t heard of a lot of these authors however! Would you happen to have a top recommendation for each of these authors that I could add to my to-read list quickly! 🙂
I know what I want for Mother’s Day….a ticket to Orlando FL!!! All my favorite authors are on this list.
I am soooo excited to see this falls right when our Disney Vacation wraps up …. I am asking this from my hubby as my 40th Birthday present yeaaaaa meeeee lol
I want to go sooooo bad. Please do a video of the event for us Maryse! Can we do a book signing closer to Pennsylvania please? New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Washington? How about Maryland or New Jersey?
I’m sure that there will be video of the event…
and I can’t wait to see you all there. I’ve been multitasking all night. 😉 LOL! My reading will commence at midnight.
We are all going! Finally something in our area 🙂 Are you part of the organizing committee? Can’t wait to book our rooms. By the way..I had to delay putting my kids to bed b/c I made them run around the house screaming and dancing around with me when I saw this post on FB!! HUGE, I can’t butterflying believe it! xo
Do you know when tickets go on sale?
I’m looking forward to going being that it’s an hour away from where we live! The highlight will be meeting the closest thing to meeting my favorite author, Sylvain Reynard, Enn Bocci. 🙂
I knew living in Florida would come in handy eventually!
Wow this is awesome!! I am actually suppose to be in Orlando for work in September. We typically have it in June…bummer for me. Hopefully we get to see lots of pics!
awesome, sounds like a girls weekend for me and my daughter,, and i agree with with Leslie , living in Florida does come in handy:)
Sounds funtastic!!!! Yessssssssss
Ma-REESE!!!
I am beyond excited!
I was so sad to miss the Fairview signing last weekend and now this comes up and its 10x better!!! It will be a mini family vacay more for my benefit!
I am so exicted to meet you!
How Exciting! This would be an awesome Event to Attend, I will not be able to make it, but am so excited for you and those who get to make it! YAY!!!!
WOW! That sounds so exciting! What a fun and inspiring event, to be able to celebrate the work of so many creative, powerful, and moving authors that all us fans LOVE! I really do hope you share lots of video with us and give us lots of behind the scenes details. 😉
IM SOOOOOO IN!!!!
I’m soooo going!! I was planning our family vacation.. Um I guess I am making an executive decision to go to Orlando, Florida the week of June 29th!! lol…
I’m soo going!! I was planning our family vacation.. Um I guess I am making an executive decision to go to Orlando, Florida the week of June 29th!! lol…
I am way too excited! I feel like a kid going to Disneyworld!!! Ahhhhhh I can not wait
you kind of are, Samantha. 😉 hehe
**HAPPY DANCE*** I LIVE in Orlando!!!! I am soo excited!!!!!!!!! sqeeeeeeeeeeee I cannot wait!!! And it is only a few days after my birthday!!!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Will be there with bells on and bring EVERYBODY!!!
YOU ROCK!!!
Julia
Amazing news!! So excited. I will definitely be there with my Ft. Myers book club!! Can’t wait to meet you Maryse and thank you for putting together this incredible event. Can’t wait!!!
June 29th is my anniversary! And I am taking the family to Orlando to celebrate it at Book Bash- can’t wait! The kids will be thrilled with Universal too 😉
Woo Hoo! Just saw that Alice Clayton will be joining the Book Bash! Can’t wait to meet the author of Wallbanger!! We can’t wait to go!
I wish I could come too, but I live in WI. So many amazing authors are going to be there!
I have a question Maryse. I am brazilian, and I wacthed that video a THOUSAND times, and when they are introducing themselves I thought Katja was on the right and Collen was on the left???? am I missing something????
Isadora. You’re right. They were being bratty and messing with us. 😉
haha good god! I thought I was losing it! Thanks Maryse for the clarification 🙂
THANK YOU so much for helping put this together!!!!!!
It looks fabulous!!!!!
How about trying for : KEVIN HEARNE….. from the Iron Druid Series???
So excited!! I see most of my fav authors are going to be there!
How about Amy Bartol? I would love to meet her as well as everyone else.
I hope to go also, it looks like an amazing event!
I’m super excited about the book bash, this will be my first one! Did you get the hotel code yet?
code is BK2, just made my reservations so excited:) i’ll be coming from Pensacola Fl, can’t wait:)
Thank you Sandy!! I just made my reservations…YAY!!! I’ll be coming from Birdsboro PA
Where do we get tickets if we already live in Orlando? So excited!!
Katja Millay?!? I’m skipping the RT Convention. I’m doing THIS instead. Do you have to sign up or anything? Any fees?
I live 45 away and will def be there! Do we have to register or buy tickets?? Ive already put in a time off request for that day… looking forward to meeting several of the authors, yayyyyy!
(btw you should try to get Debra Anastasia and Tammara Webber too!) omg im so friggin excited to meet Sylvia Day, Jamie McGuire, and Colleen Hoover!! please let us know about tickets or sign up!
Tickets are now available!! I just added the “tickets” button to this post, or you can click here: https://bookbash.eventbrite.com
What is the code for the $79 deal?
OH MY!!!! This is going to be AMAZING!!! 🙂 Does anyone know is we can bring our own book or if we have to buy them there? Going to need and extra large suitcase haha
Starting the countdown until June now 🙂
You can bring your own to be signed AND there will be books there for sale by the indie authors at their table (and Books-A-Million will be there too, selling the traditionally published books also.)
Also you should try to get J.M. Darhower! But can’t wait to meet everyone else
Just booked, coming from NY!! Can’t wait to meet all the authors and you too Maryse! I have read so many books on your recommendation. I wish that they made a kindle cover that all these authors could sign at once, how cool would that be to pick up your kindle having your fav authors signatures on it!
i am so excited about this, my sister and i are going, this is my first time meeting authors, anyway, hoping that some of u from here that will also be staying at the hotel will be up for getting together maybe sat nite.. its been great chatting and sharing with you all about the great books we read:) can’t wait!!
PS: thinking that kindle cover that can be written on is a cool idea Laura, LOL
Got my ticket! Can’t wait (even though most of my books are electronic not paper).
This is so great…kudos to Maryse for putting it together.
I know this sounds cheesy, but maybe there could be book bash posters and/or tshirts for sale that fans can have their favorite authors sign? It’s gonna be hard for me (and expensive) to haul 40 books in my suitcase!
You do not sound Cheesy at all!!! Go to the website…I posted this question and have gotten a few ideas from the suggestions that others have made…good luck and see you there.
K
Hi!! I can’t find for the life of me the suggestions for what the authors can sign. All of my books are e-books. I think the idea of posters is a good one. Maybe sell 8×10 posters of book covers?…
I just went to the website and the tickets are ALL SOLD OUT! 🙁 (crying) Some of the girls from my blog want to go so bad!!! I guess they started a waiting list… I am not sure how that work, but I hope we get to go!!!!!!
desiree
go to the “book bash facebook page” and under
“recent post by others” you may have to click “more posts” a couple of times but you will find where I posed the question about suggestions for people that read with an ebook-what to autograph..I posed the question 2-19-13…there are a couple of good suggestions.
good luck..and see you there!
K
I was on the waiting list and got my ticket yesterday!!!! I am sooooo excited I cannot wait!
Now if I could only find information for authors that want to attend. Anyone know anything about that?
I’ve emailed and don’t know what else to try, LOL
Maryse – can you tell me how the authors tables will be organized at the hotel? I want to make a beeline for a specific author, and it would help to know how to get there quickly without having to wander around and get distracted by all my other favorite authors! Who am I kidding? It’s going to be sooo hard to prioritize!!!
Maryse,
I just now found this page. Will you be doing this again next year? – I hope, I hope!
Mary Lou