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Conventions

August 25, 2016

Aint Love Grand

KaetrinBeyond the Book / Conventions / EssaysAdelaide / Romance Writers of Australia / RuBY Awards10 Comments

I attended the Romance Writers of Australia conference in Adelaide, South Australia (my home town) over the weekend. While I only attended on Saturday and Sunday, the conference officially opened on Friday with a full day workshop for authors presented by screenwriter Michael Hauge. This year marked the 25th anniversary ... more >

May 7, 2014

DA3 Interview: Favorite Conference Speakers

Alison AtleeConventions / Features / Interviews19th century / Category / Cathryn Parry / Contemporary / Courtney Milan / Dani Collins / Grace Burrowes / Historical / Historical Romances / RWA8 Comments

With reader and writer “conference season” upon us, I thought I’d bring to Dear Author a few authors who also make great presenters on panels and workshops. Grace Burrowes was a wonderful discovery to me last year–I didn’t know her when I went to see a panel of headliner historical ... more >

June 4, 2013

2013 BEA Amazon Roundtable

JaneConventionsAmazon / BEA / Goodreads71 Comments

  I was invited to participate in an Amazon Roundtable. There were three authors present: CJ Lyons, Stephanie Bond, and Hugh Howey.  The first two are Kindle Millionaires, or authors who have sold over 1 million kindle copies.  Howey is apparently 300,000 sales away from that mark. Also present was ... more >

BEA 2013
June 3, 2013

BEA 2013 – Less books, more readers?

JaneConventionsBEA7 Comments

  Last year, I scheduled interviews and meetings and was exhausted by the end of the first day.  This year, I decided to take a more leisurely approach. I met with a few editors, attended a couple of parties, and stood in line to get a couple of books signed ... more >

red devil
June 6, 2012

BEA Day 3: Up all night

JaneConventionsBEA 201212 Comments

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 ... more >

June 5, 2012

BEA: Day 2, Kobo announces self publishing platform and Bowker releases ebook reading data

JaneConventionsBEA 201211 Comments

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 ... more >

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