Dec 6 2012
It’s official: the RT Book Blogger Convention is on the RT site, and we have a registration form ready to go! REGISTRATION LINK. A few important points: 1. Registration is $30.00. Registration is not confirmed until payment is received. The fee covers breakfast, lunch, and a full day of panel discussions. 2. We’re handling payments(…)
Oct 24 2012
Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches Trashy Books has spearheaded an effort to bring a one day conference dedicated to helping bloggers network with other bloggers, learn tools of the trade, and information about the book industry. She has graciously allowed me to be part of it. We’ve put together a number of topics and we(…)
Jun 6 2012
It’s Day 4 actually as my clock says it is 12:16 am. Remember yesterday when I closed saying that I was going to a power reader breakfast at Random House at 7 am and how I didn’t know what a “power reader” was? Then Ros said in the comments that a power reader was one(…)
Jun 5 2012
Bowker and eReading Data Day two began with a panel conducted by Bowker on data regarding domestic and international ebook readers. Bowker does quarterly surveys and annual surveys. The data they covered was from the end of 2011. Their panel began with 1500 members and was culled to about 800 individuals. The consumers were those(…)
Jun 5 2012
Introduction It is 11:15 pm as I write this post so forgive my incoherence and forgetfulness. However, I feel that should I delay in putting permanence to my thoughts there will be very little I will remember by the end of the week, as one event rushes on the heels of the next. Today was(…)
May 10 2012
On Sunday, April 22, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Part 1 of my report on the festival Part 2 of my festival recap And now for Part 3: Fiction: Love, Actually My friend Bettie and I left the Anne Rice panel while Anne Rice was taking questions from the audience and(…)
May 9 2012
I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 22. The first part of my report on the festival can be found at this link. And now onto Part 2. Anne Rice in Conversation with Scott Timberg After the mornings panels described in part 1 of my report, we stopped at the(…)
May 8 2012
Last year on I attended the Los Angeles Festival of Books and reported on the event for DA. My biggest negative takeaway that year was that the romance genre was not represented at the festival. This year (Halleluja!) they actually had a panel devoted to romance. A single, lonely panel mind you, but it(…)
Apr 22 2012
This year’s Romantic Times convention was my fourth in a row. Since my first visit, RT has underwent a dramatic change and much of it has to do with moving the focus away from cover models and toward the readers. In 2012, RT did not have a Cover Model pageant and while there were cover(…)
Sep 19 2011
I went back to Bouchercon on Friday and Saturday and caught as many panels as I could, given my other responsibilities this weekend (why does everything always happen at the same time? Argh). [Check out Sunita's report from Friday] Unfortunately I had evening commitments both days, so I couldn’t hang out at the bar (which(…)
Sep 16 2011
Despite reading romance and other genre fiction for decades, I’ve never been to a writer or reader convention. I don’t have aspirations to write genre fiction, and I travel enough to meetings and conference for the day job. But when a convention comes right to my front doorstep, it’s hard to resist. Bouchercon is a(…)
May 4 2011
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was held over two days this past weekend, Saturday, April 30th and Sunday, May 1st. Although I was disappointed that the romance genre was not represented at the festival, I made plans to attend some interesting events and panels on Saturday, April 30th, along with my husband, my(…)
Apr 8 2011
I’m not sure what day of the conference it is but I think Thursday is day 2. I came in on Tuesday to attend the RT Bookcamp unconference. I attended two sessions. First a session about social reading with Patrick Brown, the community manager at Goodreads; Callie Miller, blogger and literary fiction reviewers; and Ami(…)
Aug 9 2010
This was my second RWA conference. I thoroughly enjoy the community of current and future authors, of readers, and of industry professionals at RWA. I enjoy three conference communities in very different ways. At Popular Culture Association's conference, I hang out with 20-40 scholars of popular romance (in a conference of about 1000 scholars) for(…)
Aug 2 2010
I didn’t go to RWA, in part because RWA broke up with me, but also because I went to TOC, RT, and RomCon in 2010. RWA would have been overkill, but I will tell you that as I read the blogposts and saw the tweets, I was totally mopey of all the fun that the(…)
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