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Conventions

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 >

Dan Savage, It Gets Better
May 4, 2011

My Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

JanineConventionsebook-v.-print-publishing / Fantasy Romance / Jonathan Stroud / LGBTQIAP+ / Megan-Whalen-Turner / Queen’s Thief series / Rick Yancey / Young-Adult42 Comments

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was held over two days this past weekend, Saturday, April 30th and Sunday, May 1st. Although I was disappointed that the romance genre was not represented at the festival, I made plans to attend some interesting events and panels on Saturday, April 30th, ... more >

Vivi Anna
April 8, 2011

RT 2011: Mini Conference Wrapup

JaneConventions15 Comments

I’m not sure what day of the conference it is but I think Thursday is day 2. I came in on Tuesday to attend the RT Bookcamp unconference. I attended two sessions. First a session about social reading with Patrick Brown, the community manager at Goodreads; Callie Miller, blogger and ... more >

August 2, 2010

RWA Round Up: View from the Couch

JaneConventionsconferences21 Comments

I didn’t go to RWA, in part because RWA broke up with me, but also because I went to TOC, RT, and RomCon in 2010.   RWA would have been overkill, but I will tell you that as I read the blogposts and saw the tweets, I was totally mopey of ... more >

butterflyswordsfront-1
July 15, 2010

Reader Roundtables Part II – The Content

JaneConventionscritique / Reader Opinions / RomCon / tropes48 Comments

The second part of the Reader Roundtables was content. (I really could talk about covers forever   but we had to move on). Readers said that they were tired of paranormals and to expand on that, they may not be so much tired of paranormals but rather they want something fresh. ... more >

August 7, 2006

Dear Author’s RWA Report: Jolie, the Intrepid Bookseller

JaneConventionsconferences / Conventions / Lora-Leigh / Nalini-Singh / Nora-Roberts30 Comments

A good friend of mine, Jolie, is a bookseller who specializes in selling romances. She goes to RWA every year. This time I begged her to write up a report about what she found out at the conference about the future of romance. This is her report: RWA 2006 –” ... more >

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