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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 19, 2015

RT 2015: A Mini Wrap Up (mostly about books)

JaneConventionsConventions11 Comments

It’s going to be great week! #RT15 #FFatRT pic.twitter.com/VlUDT7WnIX — FreshFiction (@FreshFiction) May 12, 2015 This is the fifth or sixth RT I have attended. The conference of today is dramatically different than the conference that existed when I started attending. When I began attending, the conference was highly sexualized, ... more >

November 14, 2014

Toronto Bookstores and Inspire’s Dreams

JaneConventionsbookstores / conference / independent bookstores / used bookstores11 Comments

In September I received an email inviting me to attend the Inspire book Festival. Unlike book Expo America which is directed toward the trade such as booksellers, librarians and others who are in the business of selling books or intellectual property, Inspire is a consumer oriented book event designed to ... 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 >

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