RWA is a writer’s conference. It is about the business and craft of writing. As a non aspiring writer, I went as a fan and a blogger to see what it was all about.
While some authors were not happy to see readers and bloggers at RWA, most everyone that I met [...]

Best Traditional Romance

Barb Hannay is from Australia and was not present to accept her award.
Claiming His Family by Barbara Hannay, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Romance - (373039077)
Kimberley Young, editor
Best Short Contemporary Romance
Jessica Bird/J.R. Ward
From The First by Jessica Bird, Harlequin Enterprises, Silhouette Special Edition - (0373247508), Stacy Boyd, editor
Best Long Contemporary Romance
Lori Handeland who has [...]

Best Paranormal Romance - Black Jack by Jennifer Stark
Best Inspirational Romance - The Heart Beckons by Carla Hughes
Best Short Historical - The Lost Jewel by Debra Bess
Best Long Historical Romance - Sager’s Passion by Elaine Levine
Novel with Strong Romantic Elements - According to Jane by Marilyn Weigel
Best Romantic Suspense - Falling Into Darkness by Bronwyn [...]

My fingers are tired of typing one line posts (as I guess some are tired of reading them). Today is a less frenetic day. I met Heather Osborn for lunch and she shared some interesting projects that she is looking at including one with an Elizabeth Vaughan like feel. I reminded her [...]

A belated Friday update. I was out most of the day and fell onto the bed in an exhausted stupor so I failed to bring up the big update. I met with Romance Novel TV ladies, Maria and Marisa . They are twins and sometimes referred to as the M&Ms. These two [...]

Factions of the RWA are abuzz with the news of the de-recognition of e publishers, Samhain, Ellora’s Cave, and Loose ID. Some authors are apparently saying that it is the bias against erotica rearing its ugly head. I thought it might have something to do with the Triskelion bankruptcy myself. I had [...]

SB Sarah is already telling me what to do. Candy has run off to dinner.

Going to the RWA reception with Nalini

Socializing with Ann Christopher and Nalini Singh

Leigh Court, erotic historical romance author, in Secrets, Vol 15, The Disciplinarian

I’m up and contemplating whether I’ll survive the day. I thought I would share what the Goody Room is all about. The Goody Room is on the second floor of the Grand Hyatt and in two small connecting rooms. When you first walk in, there is this round table of items. [...]

Sandra Schwab
HelenKay Dimon
Claire Cross
Love this cover
Kelley Armstrong
Keri Arthur
Lara Adrian (notice the lack of focus. I was tiring by now)
JR Ward
Eve Kenin/Eve Silver
Farrah Rochon readers
Maureen McKade
Jayne Ann Krentz
Masses of people
Jill Shalvis
Amie Stuart
Kathryn Smith
Kayla Perrin
Eloisa James
Jessica Inclan
Ann Christopher
Kenyon’s Hat

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 [...]

Sybil and I went to the press room, but there is no internet access there so I won’t be blogging from the press room. There was a table with many books. Our credentials were checked, though, when we wandered over to the free book section. We [...]

Suzanne Brockmann showed up in the Goody Room as we were leaving. Effervescent and engaged with her fans.

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.

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 [...]

Now finally leaving lunch. Going back to post pictures.
I’m back now. Lobby of the hotel. And escalator. But then, that would be stating the obvious. Off to go to the goody room for free books.

So apparently Christina Dodd is stalking Lisa Kleypas. Dodd is having lunch Sue Grimshaw, Tina Trevaskis, and Kara Cesare at the table behind us.

Lisa Kleypas is probably the nicest author. She is really drawing Kristie out and connecting with her. Kristie is glowing. Hopefully from happiness and not heat.

We finished volunteering for the day. It was a mad house. We unpacked, counted, repacked, alphabetized thousand of books.

Free books: Lynsay Sands Bite Me If You Can; Linda Lael Miller McKettrick’s Luck; Samantha James The Secret Passion of SB; Elizabeth Hoyt’s Leopard Prince; Anna Davis’ The Shoe Queen

Standing in line to register for conference. Must be at the volunteer place in 3 Min. Will I be late for my first function?

We are up, showered and ready to volunteer at the literacy signing. This morning, Sybil (The Good, The Bad, The Unread), and I will be helping set up the literacy signing that takes place this evening at 5:30 pm. Last night, during the lobby talk with Sue G, Tina T, Brooke and Erin, [...]

My flight was delayed. First by bad weather in Chicago and then bad weather in Dallas. On the departure tarmac, we waited while the captain rebooted the system because the defroster wasn’t working. I know it sounds crazy, but inside I thought, its summer, do we really need a defroster? I [...]

I originally packed 10 books to bring but there will be so many books given away at the convention, it makes sense to only bring one or two. Determining a plane read can be very difficult as you are not sure what mood you’ll be in. So many of my ARCs are paper [...]