Jul 27 2008
Bloggers aren’t the only ones recounting their adventures in San Francisco. Authors do it (and have done it before bloggers even began attending). Jude keeps track of everyone at Blogging Nationals where you can find the most up to date information about RWA San Francisco such as Louisa Edwards pre-conference horror story of the hotel(…)
Jul 21 2008
Over at the Smart Bitches, SB Sarah blogged about the workshop that Courtney Milan is doing about wills. The workshop will take place on July 30 as part of the Beau Monde conference. This conference is in San Francisco so it fits neatly into the RWA conference schedule. Among other things, Courtney Milan will tell(…)
Jul 7 2008
I’ll be blogging from RWA Nationals in San Francisco at the end of the month along with about 10 other bloggers. I’ve set up a special page here at Dear Author that will contain both substantive posts (hopefully with lots of pictures) and my tweets (the one liners that give you kind of a blow(…)
Jun 19 2008
Last year I kind of did a live blog from RWA using Twitter. This inserted hundreds of 2 sentence blog entries onto DA. It annoyed some people. So in preparation for this year, I’d like to hear what readers would want in terms of liveblogging the event. I didn’t go to many seminars last year,(…)
Mar 13 2008
So the story that Publisher’s Weekly reported on today is that a small print inspirational publishing house is getting the RITA shaft. The Publishers’ Weekly article says that Tsaba House publisher was barred from submitter her own book, Sanctuary, for a RITA Award based on the fact that Tsaba was not an RWA Approved publisher.(…)
Mar 6 2008
The Board approved the following 2008 Award Recipients: RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award – Vicki Lewis Thompson (this used to be the Lifetime Achievement Award but was renamed to the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award) RWA Emma Merritt Service Award – Linda Winstead Jones RWA Service Award – Jill Limber, Nicole Burnham RWA Vivian(…)
Jan 23 2008
This will make some authors deliriously happy, but RWA is no longer providing press passes to internet media at the annual convention. Over the past several years, RWA has had a lenient Conference press-pass policy; however, due to the increased number of on-line outlets, RWA is no longer able to waive registration fees for Internet(…)
Jan 10 2008
There are heated discussions on various loops and blogs regarding the accusations of plagiarism against a published romance author. Some questions have also been raised regarding RWA’s stand on the matter. To be clear, RWA does not condone plagiarism or any type of copyright infringement. (Please see RWA’s Code of Ethics http://www.rwanational.org/cs/code_of_ethics). RWA takes all(…)
Sep 30 2007
First up is the Apple iPhone issue. On Thursday, Apple released an iPhone firmware update that adds several functions incluing TV out functionality (meaning you can hook up the iPhone to the TV and watch the video iPhone content on the TV) and the ability to buy music over a wifi connection from the iPhone.(…)
Aug 15 2007
RWA released its slate of Board candidates. Article 8 of the Bylaws explains the procedures for Election. Elections are conducted during the fourth quarter of the RWA fiscal year with one Regional Director from each region shall be elected each year. If you are unhappy with the way that RWA is run, this is the(…)
Jul 31 2007
Three weeks ago, the Romance Writers of America handed out its RITA awards which is deemed by the industry to be the highest award an author can achieve. It’s an award, though, that is the target of a great deal criticism for everything from its categories to the entrance fee to the way in which(…)
Jul 11 2007
I can see that the blog time is wrong and will change that. I also have realized that I forgot to post an afternoon review. Many apologies. It’s frenetic here and I doubt that many reviews will be going up this week. I hope you’ll understand. I got back to the room at 8:48 and(…)
Jul 11 2007
Met Jami Alden, author of Delicious and Taste of Honey, she apparently loves Sybil. We ran into her again in the Goody Room with Monica McCarty and Bella Andre. McCarty has a three book series coming out from Ballantine starting in August. Send to Kindle
Jul 11 2007
3. The Board updated the definition of Subsidy Publisher or Vanity Publisher to: any publisher that publishes books in which the author participates in the cost of production or distribution in any manner, including publisher assessment of a fee or other costs for editing and/or distribution. This definition includes publishers who withhold or seek full(…)
Jul 11 2007
Kristie J here reporting from Dallas Considering the fact that I haven’t flown in over 27 years, things went swimmingly well. I got to the airport on time, got my boarding pass no problem. Things though have changed in 26 years. I didn’t have to go through a metal detector back them. As I went(…)
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