It turns out I love to talk…

This is no surprise to someone who knows me well, but if I am being perfectly honest, I am less comfortable when it comes to talking about my writing. In fact, I often feel downright shy.

This past weekend I had the chance to participate in a debut author’s panel at the Canadian Writer’s Summit.

I prepared my Q&As in advance and worried over them.

And then the panel started and I sort of kept to my notes, but sort of didn’t. Mostly I just talked to the 40+ people in the audience. I joked, I was serious, I was probably even confused once or twice.

And I had such a good time!

It helped that I was on a panel with four other authors, all of whom are amazing, talented women:

• Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Firsts
• Catherine Lo, author of How it Ends
• Jenny Manzer, author of Save me Kurt Cobain
• Jennifer DiGiovanni, author of My Senior Year of Awesome

We had such a good time and I think (hope) our audience appreciated our enthusiasm and information.

I’m ready for my next panel!