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People, Passion, Places, Pain: ThrillerFest!

By Donna Galanti

Wednesday Thoughts

Fellow ITW Debut Authors Amy Rogers and Brian Andrews

People: A ton of them this week! Met new and legendary authors at ThrillerFest VII in NYC. Read a great wrap up of ThrillerFest here by Anthony J. Franze and Jenny Milchman.

New friend and super nice ITW Debut Author, Robin Gainey. Check our her book, Jack of Hearts!

New being my fellow ITW Debut Authors such as Robin Gainey, Nancy Bilyeau, Brian Andrews, Amy Rogers, Amy Shojai, and Jeremy Burns – just to name a few of the 21 of us that presented our debut novel at the conference.

With ITW Debut Author, Nancy Bilyeau, and author and innovator, M.J. Rose

See the full list of these rising stars here as reported by the Library Journal.

First night out in NYC with Janice Bashman and Doug Preston

And legendary folks were there such as R.L. Stine, Sandra Brown, Catherine Coulter, David Morrell, and Lee Child. Had an amazing time with some fascinating and fun people all around.

My son’s favorite, the legendary R.L. Stine, celebrating 20 years of the Goosebumps series.

Lee Child, creator of Jack Reacher novels

See my full ThrillerFest album here. I learned that we are all unique in how we write. R.L. Stine types all of his books with one finger. Richard North Patterson spends eight months creating a folder for each chapter then sits down and writes the entire novel in a month or so. Doug Preston helped find a legendary lost city of Honduras in his research.

I learned the fascinating backgrounds of some authors. Peter James was once the housekeeper for Orson Welles. Ted Dekker was raised by missionaries who lived among the headhunter tribes of Indonesia.

With the gracious montauk-monster.com/pharmacy/diazepam Sandra Brown

And as if meeting super star authors wasn’t enough, I was lucky to sit down to dinner next to the lovely star of Charlie’s Angels, Cheryl Ladd, and her author and music producer husband, Brian Russell.

Great time talking with Brian Russell and Cheryl Ladd at the Awards Dinner

Passion: Author! Author! And many of them. I was surrounded by authors of all levels from the emerging author to the thriller author with 30+ books out.

And what are they passionate about? Writing of course! I sat in on some lively panels from how to kill off your characters, what are the bones of a good thriller, does sex really sell?, how to handle taboos, to keeping it credible. All debated with passion. We writers live for our stories and characters. The vibe for it was heavy.

Places: NYC of course. It’s been many years since I traveled in to the Big Apple. It’s as vibrant and noisy and colorful as I remember. Just walking the streets and venturing into the NY Public Library was an experience. This imposing Beaux Arts building at 5th and 42nd St. is a walk in history and phenomenal architecture of the previous century.

At the ITW Debut Author Breakfast

Pain: Knowing I would have to present my book to the conference. Preparation and practice almost shed the anxiety – until the microphone was passed to me! And lack of sleep. Not the worst pain there is, especially when it means attending such a conference as ThrillerFest. But a few days in a row with only four hours of a sleep each night add up. It’s worth it.

I’ll leave you with one of the highlights at ThrillerFest was the hysterical “Ghost Writers In The Sky” performance by authors Brad Parks and Daniel Palmer.

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Filed Under: Authors, ITW Debut Authors, Writing Conferences Tagged With: Amy Rogers, Amy Shojai, Brad Parks, Brian Andrews, Daniel Palmer, David Morrell, Doug Preston, ITW, ITW Debut authors, Jeremy Burns, Lee Child, Nancy Bilyeau, NYC, Peter James, R.L. Stine, Richard North Patterson, Robin Gainey, Sandra Brown, Ted Dekker, Thrillerfest, ThrillerFest Debut Authors

Comments

  1. Kathryn Craft says

    July 19, 2012 at 7:53 am

    Thanks for this great overview, Donna! You look most confident at the debut author’s breakfast. I like hearing all those background tidbits on the authors as well. Thanks for sharing.

  2. dgalanti says

    July 19, 2012 at 8:16 am

    Glad you enjoyed, Kathryn! At least I looked confident – ha ha! Yes, was indeed fun to hear the tales of how other authors write. And solidified that we are all unique in how we create.

  3. Janice Gable Bashman says

    July 19, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Such a fantastic time – glad I could share it with you!

    • dgalanti says

      July 20, 2012 at 9:59 am

      Janice, me too. You really helped make it a great event for me!

  4. August McLaughlin says

    July 19, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    So bummed that we didn’t have a chance to meet in person at the fest, Donna. I saw you a few times, but one of us was soon whisked away into mingle-dom. 😉 Next year, for sure.

    Congrats on your debut author success! I’m sure you gave a lovely talk, and that the honor is WELL deserved. Wishing you continual, growing success!

    • dgalanti says

      July 20, 2012 at 10:00 am

      August, thanks so much for the congrats! We were “whisked” away weren’t we? All good but sadly couldn’t talk to everyone. Best wishes to you on your book coming out!

  5. Kristina Stanley says

    November 3, 2015 at 9:22 am

    Wow, Donna, that looks like so much fun. Congrats. I’d love to hear more about your debut presentation. What did you say?

    • Donna Galanti says

      November 3, 2015 at 9:38 am

      Kristina, thankfully we only had 1 minute as there were 20+ of us seated on stage. I talked about how my mom inspired me to write and thanked the folks for helping me become published. The cocktail party, banquet, and panels are such great events to meet and mingle and learn about craft and the biz from some fabulous authors!

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