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Update: The Wyndham is preparing a statement that will be posted at RT (and I’ll repost it here) that will have additional contact information.
Many (possibly hundreds) of people who attended RT convention in Orlando and stayed at the Wyndham have been the victims of credit card fraud. The hotel has launched an [...]

Saturday was my last day and there were no panels for the day, only events.  The two events that I attended were the booksigning and the Mr. Romance competition. 
The booksigning was really large, although not as large as the RWA literacy signing.  There were digital authors with their print books and traditional published authors placed [...]

I spent some time attending panels on Friday.  
The first “panel” I attended was actually a reader party hosted by Ann Aguirre, Lauren Dane, Megan Hart, Anya Bast, and Cynthia Eden. It was very popular. When you entered, you were handed a soft tote bag (one of those recyclable kind) full of swag. [...]

Thursday morning, Sarah and I held our blogging panel.  We actually thought the panel started at 2:30 but we saw Heather Osborn, editor from Tor, in the hallway and she mentioned that she would see us soon at the panel which started at 11:30!  Sarah and I owe Heather a lot of thanks for saving [...]

I registered for Romantic Times convention on Wednesday morning and received a goody bag full of bookmarks, cover flats, coupons, and books. Sylvia Day and Shayla Black were the sponsors of the bag.

Probably the coolest part of the registration packet, for me, was a print out that was included in the pocket of the [...]

Romantic Times convention took place a couple of weeks ago. Since the convention, a few people spoke up about their experiences which included a negative reaction to the antics of the Ellora’s Cavemen. SB Sarah said that the Cavemen acted like cavemen and were overly grabby. JC Wilder reported [...]

Orbit Books, the SFF branch of Warner Books, posted last week that Urban Fantasy is growing in popularity and the evidence is the number of books showing up on the bestseller lists. According to Orbit, in 2004, only 1 Urban Fantasy was on the Fantasy Bestseller list and in 2007, there were 7. [...]