Thanks for responding to our events survey! The results surprised and pleased us.
On the one hand, lots of you want more author events with meet-and-greets and traditional readings, which we expected. We had so much fun with Suzanne Samuels, Ellen Rockmore, Juan Pablo Mobili, Rebecca Watkins, Lorraine Ash, and Joanne Flynn Black at our launch. Hope you’ll come out to meet romantic suspense author Tee O’Fallon this weekend! (More on that on our Events page.)
On the other hand, just as many of you would like to attend orchid workshops and community potlucks based on our cookbooks!
Everyone will be invited, but those of you who expressed interest in the latter two will soon receive emails asking about details: what kinds of orchids would you like to work with, what cookbooks do you want to try?
Here's a bar chart showing the breakdown of interests. (The percentages amount to more than 100% because we allowed everyone to make as many choices as they wanted to.)
Orchid potting and education was requested by a whopping 69.2 percent of you! We will reach out to those who are interested to determine the best date, time, and other details.
With author meet-and-greets and traditional author readings weighing in at 61.5 percent and 53.8 percent respectively, though, interest in books still rules the events roost.
Interest in cookbooks and community go hand in hand, with 61.5 percent of you looking forward to meeting new recipes and each other for a potluck based on a new cookbook. Just as with the orchid workshop, we will reach out to those interested to determine date, time, and details.
And maybe we knew that an authorless community meet-and-greet would naturally appeal to our customers, with 53.8 percent of you chiming in at the same time we were planning last Saturday's event with Joe Printz. Don't worry, there will be more to come.
And for all who responded positively to the ideas of writing workshops, board game gatherings, wellness-related book discussions, talks on fun topics by local published authors, further books clubs, and open mics, we promise to keep new events coming. We are adding a bookbinding workshop in September, details TBA. Stay tuned, too, for the inaugural episodes of what we hope will become an enduring series, Sparklers: One-Hour Mini Writing Workshops. Jeff Bens will lead a workshop for budding fiction writers in October; yours truly, Donna Miele, will lead one for writers exploring memoir in November.
Thanks again, everyone, hope to see you soon, and hope you will stay in touch.