‘Romance always has a happily ever after’: Organizers bring book signing event to Edmonton

Romance books are being celebrated at an Edmonton event featuring 30 Canadian authors who will be signing books and six local businesses.

Romance book lovers will have a chance to meet and mingle with other readers and Canadian authors at a book signing event this weekend.

“Romance, Eh?” brings more than 30 authors from multiple subgenres of romance and six vendors to the Holiday Inn Conference Centre in south Edmonton on Friday and Saturday.

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A social mixer kicks off the event on Friday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., allowing readers and authors to meet in a casual environment. On Saturday, there will be two book signing sessions – a morning session from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and an afternoon session from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. – to meet more authors and get a book signed.

“It’s like ordering your favorite beverage at a coffee shop. You know you’re gonna love it,” event organizer and author Cheryl Terra said in an interview on CTV Edmonton’s Your Morning on Friday.

Terra added that romance is one of the most popular genres in the publishing industry.

“I think it’s seeing such a huge amount of support right now, because people are looking for those things that really show what you deserve as a person in terms of love, in terms of how you are treated … (and) even at its darkest, romance always has a happily ever after.”

Event coordinator Rachel Skow joined Terra on CTV Edmonton’s Your Morning show on Friday. She said the two of them had attended similar events in Canada and they felt it needed to be brought to Edmonton.

“We have a vibrant, very great reading community,” Skow said. “We’ve got a really amazing amount of people who are interested in this (genre).”

Skow added that the event is adults only since there will be some “not safe for work art on display.”

Tickets can be purchased online and at the door.

With files from CTV Edmonton’s Kimberly Wynn