May 10, 2012

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 3

JanineConventionsdystopian / Jill Sorenson / Romance / Tessa Dare / Young-Adult6 Comments

On Sunday, April 22, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Part 1 of my report on the festival Part 2 of my festival recap And now for Part 3: Fiction: Love, Actually My friend Bettie and I left the Anne Rice panel while Anne Rice was taking ... more >

May 9, 2012

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 2

JanineConventionshorror / Speculative-Fiction11 Comments

I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 22. The first part of my report on the festival can be found at this link. And now onto Part 2. Anne Rice in Conversation with Scott Timberg After the mornings panels described in part 1 of my ... more >

May 8, 2012

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 1

JanineConventionsFantasy / good worldbuilding / Science Fiction30 Comments

  Last year on I attended the Los Angeles Festival of Books and reported on the event for DA. My biggest negative takeaway that year was that the romance genre was not represented at the festival. This year (Halleluja!) they actually had a panel devoted to romance. A single, lonely ... more >

April 22, 2012

2012 RT Report

JaneConventionsConventions / Romantic-Times40 Comments

This year’s Romantic Times convention was my fourth in a row. Since my first visit, RT has underwent a dramatic change and much of it has to do with moving the focus away from cover models and toward the readers. In 2012, RT did not have a Cover Model pageant ... more >

September 19, 2011

Sunita reports from Bouchercon 2011, Part 2

SunitaConventionsConventions / epublishing / indie booksellers / mystery17 Comments

I went back to Bouchercon on Friday and Saturday and caught as many panels as I could, given my other responsibilities this weekend (why does everything always happen at the same time? Argh).  [Check out Sunita’s report from Friday] Unfortunately I had evening commitments both days, so I couldn’t hang ... more >

September 16, 2011

Sunita reports from Bouchercon 2011

SunitaConventionsmystery39 Comments

Despite reading romance and other genre fiction for decades, I’ve never been to a writer or reader convention. I don’t have aspirations to write genre fiction, and I travel enough to meetings and conference for the day job. But when a convention comes right to my front doorstep, it’s hard ... more >