About a week ago, I spent the day at a nice, large public library in a nearby city that was holding an event called Authorpalooza.

The hope: library patrons would flock to the event, discover local authors, and buy their books.

The reality: It was mostly authors talking to each other about the writing life, looking at and sometimes buying each other’s books.

Still fun, though.

Here’s my book table. I sold exactly one book. In the background, you can see authors talking to each other.

Genres represented included sci-fi, witchy cat books, LDS time-travel historical fiction, Christian YA fantasy, thriller set in a morgue (really!), thrillers set around Indian reservations, practical self-help for authors, and different genres of romance (spicy, comic, cozy, etc.).

This one author’s name was Marla Melior.

Me (suave as always): Did you know your name means “better” in Latin?

Her: Yes! In fact, I have a podcast called Melior on Mondays.

Here is my table neighbor (also happened to be the keynote speaker), signing the only book I bought, which was one of hers.

She has written in a number of genres, including … the genre I am focusing on this year, Greco-fiction! Her book, The Curse of King Midas, blends the historical Midas (a king living in Phrygia in the late 700s BC), with the Midas of legend. I believe there are even gods involved. And there’s a map! No wonder I was undone.