Book Signing~Suze Brockmann

Lisabea meets Suze!!
Look at what a shrimp I am. In a moment of unparallelled smoothness,

I gasped: Man, you're tall. Yes. I did.

Obviously I went to the book signing at the Borders in Fairfield last night. It was a bit of a hike, but I wanted to go. Boy, that Suze Brockmann is awfully nice. She had a lot of energy, answered any and all questions, and was gracious to the other guest author, Anne Elizabeth (also very sweet). Pretty cool, considering how successful she is and what an utter pill some big names get to be. I bullied to the front of the line (long drive+kid with science project=line jumper) and reminded her that, yes, I am a blogger (whoop-die doo) and that we had emailed this week. *dies of embarrassment* So, Suze signs my book : Thanks for the terrific blog. You Rock! (I was a grinning fool over that) and my Max and Gina (classic), Breaking Point, Max says Hi....aw shucks she's nice. She had me at hello.

The evening ended with a raffle and I won a book: Scenes of a Passion, which I can't remember if I've read.

The most interesting part of the evening, for me, was finding out that Suze and,I guess her people (?), have been approached by Logo to do a movie of All Through the Night. Which makes me wonder:

WHO WILL PLAY THESE DUDES????

• Jules
• Robin
• Max
• Sam
• Jones
  

Let me know what you think.

In the mean time, for you fans of the Brockmann series who have yet to read All Through the Night, I just want to tell you: do it. It delivered what I felt was missing from Force of Nature: closure to the Jules/Robin arc. I think most fans of the Trouble Shooter series would agree that we wanted Jules to star in his own book because, face it, we adore him. He's this wonderful side kick, adoring friend, and a dependable, strong, ass-kicking FBI agent who saves the day for Max, for Sam, for Robin, for Cosmo, etc... Wicked funny and fabulously out, Jules is at peace with who he is...well except the Adam/Robin thing. My very favorite Jules moment is in Breaking Point, when Max finds out that Gina is not dead and Jules is the stand up friend that Max needs. I had hoped that Force of Nature would be his book. Alas, it was not to be. Force of Nature left me in a weird spot about Robin and Jules' relationship because Robin was literally on a pass from rehab and I don't know how Happy my HEA was for Jules. Trust and Love and All that Happy Shit didn't make me any more comfortable with Robin's addiction issues. But this "novella" (not, cuz it's twice the word count of an actual novella. And thank you Suzanne for that!), All Through the Night, delivers the closure I wanted. Sweetly. It defines Happily. Ever. After.

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How Awesome is Suzanne Brockmann?

This awesome.

And I decided that every single penny I earned from this book, from now until the end of time--all advances, royalties, subrights, the whole enchilada--was going directly to MassEquality, an organization whose sole purpose is to preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts. Because enough is enough.

I hope, with all my heart, that by the time you read these words, the battle will have been won, and the citizens of Massachusetts won't be facing a ballot vote in which the majority gets to decide whether or not to take away the marriage rights of a minority group. (Could that really be possible in America...?) I fervently hope by the time you read this that my son's right to marry will have been preserved.

But if not, then I have this to say to the people who are rapidly becoming a minority themselves, people who don't think that gay Americans should have the same rights as the rest of us--

What part of love don't you understand?

To everyone else, to all the friends of Jules--past, present and future--thank you for believing, and for helping to change the world."

I love you, Suzanne. I love that you put your money where your mouth is. I love that you love your son unconditionally. I love that you gave us all Jules Cassidy to adore, root for, and admire. I love that you didn't flinch or cave in your determination to tell his story to a mass romance market. You freakin' rock.

Maybe this isn't a cause that you in blog land are interested in. I'm not a politically motivated person, cuz it's all shit and stringbeans to me, but if you do care about the rights of your neighbors (and I truly think this is a very noble cause because it epitomizes loving your neighbor as yourself) go forth and buy this book.

I will now hop down from my soap box and go read the 70 something dollars of books I just bought. Holy shit, the old man's going to freak out.