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In Burbank,
CA at Dark Delicacies, Sherri was greeted by an entire family of fans.
Three generations, including the youngest who came dressed as Simi.
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Sherri has had fans come
from as far away as Australia and New Zealand to attend signings in the
US. One intrepid fan drove from Washington, DC to Ann Arbor, MI in the
dead of winter to meet her. Others have rerouted their vacation trips
and even planned their vacations around her tours. For a typical
signing the fans drive in from an average of 3 hours away. And Sherri
treasures every single one of you.
She has been known to
wait for fans in parking lots and grocery stores because they were held
up and late for a signing. Her average signing has over 200 people and
she refuses to leave until every single fan has been personally greeted
and every book has been signed.
Sherri always brings
gifts for the fans and strives to make every signing a party. She loves
her fans and isn't afraid to show it.
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Factoid: When Sherrilyn's K-Con
(Kenyon/Kinley Convention) was opened for registrants, more then 200
people signed up in the first 24 hours alone. Registration had to be
closed immediately and a waiting list started. There were over 800
people on that list. Had registration remained open, we would have had
more than 1000 fans in New Orleans.
The second year's K-Con sold out in
less than twenty minutes.
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Thank You
Anyone who knows me knows that there are
two things in life I value more than anything else. First is my family
and the second is my fans. I would fight to the death to protect both.
I wasn't one of these people who grew up with other aspirations who was
later bitten by the writing bug. I came out of the womb wanting to be a
writer. Seriously. I wrote my first novel at age seven and was first
published in third grade.
And I always tell people that there are two things you don't want to
ask me about. Childbirth and publishing, because once you hear my
stories, you'll never, ever want to do either. I haven't had an easy
life. We were raised in bitter poverty without much of anything. I was
that little kid who sat in the classroom swallowing air so that my
stomach would feel full and wouldn't hurt so much from hunger pains. I
used my writing as an escape from bullies and from the harsh reality
that was my life. When I was thirteen, I saved up my baby-sitting money
for two things. One was a brand new pair of shoes to go to school in
and the other was to pay for a subscription to Writer's Digest
magazine. I still have that very first issue I received, worn out
though it is.
And even though I was trying from a very early age, getting published
was a hard struggle that took years. I wish I could say I was an
overnight sensation, but I wasn't. The Dark-Hunter books were, but that
was after many years of trying to get them published and being rejected
by every publisher, large and small.
I'm not a foolish woman. I know I didn't get here alone. It took a
brave editor to take a chance on a genre that wasn't fashionable at the
time she bought this series. Paranormal was dead and no vampire author
other than Anne Rice had put one on a national bestseller's list. In
fact, with the exception of Anne, no one had published a vampire novel
in years. Even then, my vampires weren't like the others. It was an all
new take on the genre and the lore. I owe Jennifer Enderlin so much for
being the one to initially buy them and Kim Cardascia for being that
brave first editor who brought these books to market. And I owe Monique
Patterson for continuing to carry the torch that Kim started. In fact,
I owe the entire team of St. Martins for taking a chance on me. Without
them, the books would never have been published.
But in the end, I know who made these books what they are and I know
whom I owe everything to: You the reader. Without you, none of this
would have happened. You were the ones clamoring for the books more
than two years before they were published. You were the ones who made
them a bestseller before we even had a cover for them.
To say a simple 'thank you' is so inadequate. Every time we meet, I
treasure it. Even though I can no longer answer my own email, I do read
them and I keep them. Every single one. I try to get to the message
boards as much as possible to talk to you because each of you means the
world to me. Thank you so much for taking this trip with me. Thank you
for being there and for making my dream of being an author come true.
May whatever god you believe in bless you with the kindness you've
shown me. And if you're a nihilist or existentialist, may random fate
not be so random and may it send nothing but goodness to you. From the
bottom of my heart, thank you for letting a little girl from Columbus,
GA have tears in her eyes every time she walks into a bookstore and
sees her name in print or better yet, when she sees a fan waiting with
one of her books in hand. I can honestly say, it never gets old. |
Hugs always,
Who reads Dark-Hunter?
In short, everyone. The
beauty of the Dark-Hunter universe is that it reaches out to
the entire world. Our fans come from all walks of life,
religions, and age groups. They are male and female, and as
diverse as the world we live in. We have toddlers and
teenagers who come to signings dressed as characters and the
oldest fan we know of is 103. Approximately 40% of our
US fans are male (we have more n the UK) and we draw our
readers from truck drivers, teachers, lawyers, producers,
musicians, students, stay at home moms, soldiers,
doctors, police officers, shamans, clerks, CEOs, office
workers, gamers, ministers, bikers, accountants, wait staff,
stylists, computer techs, reporters, construction workers,
writers and you. Thank you for reading and for being part of
our worldwide fan base. Kenyon Minions -- a million strong
and growing.
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