Love will be in the air Saturday at the Oak Lawn Public Library as fans and writers of romance novels gather for the facility’s first Rom Con, where they’ll have access to author panels, signed copies of books and raffle prizes.
Kate Donley, programming librarian at the Oak Lawn Public Library, stands in front of some of the 7,500 romance novels in the library’s collection, not including 100,000 ebooks and e-audiobooks. The library will celebrate the genre during this Saturday's Rom Con event.
“What we see circulating here is romance, so let’s connect with our patrons and our community and bring them some authors they will really enjoy,” she said.“She was 100,000 percent in support of this,” Donley said. The event features panels starring the authors, a book-signing room and trivia. The 2019 movie “Isn’t It Romantic?” will be shown at 1:30 p.m., and raffle prizes will be drawn after the showing.
“I kind of have all the big five publishing house, an independent one, one who writes Harlequins, and one who writes e-book only. She’s such a good speaker and has such a good story that I’m inviting her too.” She also plans to put together a few prize baskets that include signed copies of her books and “winter reading essentials like cozy socks and mugs.”Johnson’s not surprised that romances are popular given that readers “crave happy endings” in their books.
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