Reader Fangirl Moments

I'm having the fangirl moment of all fangirl moments this month. Please bear with me as I hyperventilate.

I have always loved Margaret Moore's writing. No one writes historical romances like she does. I know when I pick up a Margaret Moore romance, I will get an original romance combined with at least one historical fact I don't know (which says a lot as I read over 300 historical romances a year). She is one of the rare writers who have never disappointed me.

When I joined my local Romance Writers Of America chapter and found out Margaret Moore was a member, I might have freaked out a tad. Okay, I freaked out like a crazy person. I sat in that first meeting she attended and I think I was the quietest I've ever been (which, again, says a lot 'cause I'm sure not quiet very often). I was in shock. I don't think I heard a word the speaker said. I was in the same room as Margaret Moore. And during break, she talked to me (because she talks to everyone) and she was so nice and normal and nice and she talked to me. Did I mention she talked to me?

She was so nice that eventually (months later) I could hold a rational thought in my head while talking with her. I was sitting on my very first author panel and I told her I was so very nervous. What if I got a question I didn't know the answer to? I'd look like a jacka$$. So what did she do? She sat beside me on the author panel. When I got one of those dreaded questions I hadn't prepared an answer to and stared into the crowd with that deer in the headlights look, she stepped in and made jokes and stretched the time until I could think of something semi-intelligent to say. I will never ever forget she did that.

I'm pretty vocal about book dedications. I tell everyone who will listen that a book dedication would mean more to me than getting published. It would mean I made a difference in someone's life and isn't that what we all strive to do?

So this month, Margaret Moore sent me a signed copy of her latest historical Highland Rogue, London Miss (this book is delicious!). Who is it dedicated to?

Me

The dedication reads...

Kimber Chin
savvy businesswoman and writer,
with many thanks for her advice and support.

(I don't know what I gave her advice on. Maybe I gave her advice on what to order for lunch or something minor like that because it sure wasn't writing.)

Yeah, I cried.

You see as a reader, writer, and reviewer, I talk all tough about how it is about the story and not about the author. I don't care if authors are nice people as long as they write great stories. But when a great story is written by a great person... well, that's simply magic.

Have you recently had a fangirl moment? Do you care what your favorite authors are like as people? I want to hear about it!


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Kimber Chin ( http://businessromance.com/ ) recommends that if you like historicals or if you like great books written by great people, you check out Highland Rogue, London Miss .