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Archive for July, 2010
Monday, July 26th, 2010
This week, just about everyone in the romance writing industry is going to be heading to sweltering Orlando for the Romance Writers of America National Conference, and I for one, am so excited. How excited you may ask? Excited enough that I have been packed for a week now – and I won’t even be there until Friday!
I’m only going for a truncated visit, so sadly I’ll miss the Literacy Signing on Wednesday evening, but if you happen to be in the Orlando area, I encourage you to stop by – its open to the public, over 500 authors will be signing their books and I guarantee you the space will be air conditioned. The thought alone of Orlando in July makes my hair curl.
But I will be there for the Berkley House signing for conference attendees on Friday and the RITA awards on Saturday evening. Since Revealed is a nominee, there is no way I’m missing my one chance to give an Oscar speech, if I win. Maybe even if I don’t win. I’ve hired Kanye West to come steal the mike from Tessa Dare when her name is inevitably called. (By the by, I just finished Seduction of a Siren. DUDE. So Good! Which is so aggravating for me!)
I prepped for this year’s Romance convention, by spending this past weekend at another convention: the San Diego Comic Con. I have long wanted to go, and witness the madness. But since previous to this year I lived 3000 miles away, it seemed impractical. Being only 150 miles away now, I had no such excuse.
It was INSANE. I have never seen anything quite as colorful, and loud and yet polite (except for the guy who got stabbed, but there is not violence like nerd violence) as comic fans. My favorite booth was naturally, the BBC America, aka the Doctor Who booth. I got T-shirts. I curse myself for not getting a desktop dalek, but since I already had a TARDIS piggy bank, I thought the dalek might have been overkill.
(these are my Doctor Who shirts. Jealous?)
But the best thing about Comic Con is that everyone there loves comics. And that got me in the spirit for RWA, and now, as I sit at my desk and write, I can only think on the awesomeness of the coming weekend, the friends I will meet and those I have yet to, and the easy joy of being around a sorority of women who simply love romance.
If you happen to be there, please come find me and say hello! If not, until next week – happy reading!
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
I sit on my couch. A lot. Not because I’m lazy… although if you accused me of that in a court of law, I’d likely have to concede the case. I do a lot of work from my couch, I work off a laptop so much the couch, over the last five years has molded itself to my body. I have, if you will, a molded perch… and the molded perch has become the problem. Suffice to say, I’m getting a new couch.
I have catalogues. I have gone to a number of stores, I have done the sit test. I have collected swatches. And there is one conclusion I have come to definitively:
Swatches make great coasters.
They’re the perfect size! And you don’t care if you mess them up! Because they’re free!
Case in point:
(Diet Coke is the nectar of the gods. Just FYI.)
Other than couch-testing, I’m working hard for the money, and looking forward to RWA in less than two weeks! I hope to see many of you there, and if you see me walking around like a lost little lamb, don’t be shy, say hi!
Until then, happy reading!
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
In about three weeks, a couple hundred romance authors and a couple thousand romance fans are going to descend upon Orlando, Florida for the annual RWA National Conference. And I. Am. Psyched. I’m talking, like, better-than-Predators psyched. Better-than-a-line-by-line-reenactment-of-Ghostbusters psyched. I get to see a bunch of friends I only see online otherwise, and hopefully make some new ones. I get to interact with fans, with industry professionals, and I’m frickin’ nominated for a RITA, people! There’s no way I’m missing this.
But one of the best things about this year is the fact that we will be having the conference at the Walt Disney Resort…which means I get to face down my old nemesis, Space Mountain.
The story goes like this: when I was nine, my family took a candy-and-nostalgia fueled trip to Disney World. We rode the rides, Mr. Toad, the Haunted Mansion, etc. Went up the big ball o’ Epcot, and even saw the Michael Jackson show, Captain EO. But the one ride I refused to go on was Space Mountain. It was a roller coaster. In the dark. I don’t think my logic was unsound. But being as my mother was understanding and had two other kids to deal with, she let me sit Space Mountain out. But being as my father didn’t want me to A. be afraid of a rollercoaster, and B. miss out on the experience, woke up extremely early on the last day we were there, and took me to ride Space Mountain, before anyone else was in the park.
We rode it three times.
And now, I have to opportunity to face down my old friend and nemesis, and conquer Space Mountain once again!
If I get to leave the conference hotel, that is.
I encourage everyone in the Orlando area on July 28th to attend the Literacy Signing at RWA. Its open to the public and all proceeds benefit ProLiteracy Worldwide. There will be 500 of your favorite authors there, autographing their works. Unfortunately, I will not be one of them, as I won’t be getting to the conference until the 30th. But go! Have fun! And if you’re attending the conference, see you on the 30th!
Lots of work this week, but hopefully some summer fun. Until next time, Happy Reading, everyone!
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Three-day weekends are a bad idea. I know, I know, I’m taking the minority opinion on this one, but they are! Oh sure, we all love having that extra day, we all say we’ll get stuff done with it – do our laundry, go through our filing cabinets, possibly even take a trip and spend time grilling hot dogs or baking pies with the family. And some people I am sure, actually do that. They spend the weeks ahead of time planning the weekend, buying the necessary equipment, lawn chairs, or ingredients. And I was one of these people. And what did I end up doing this weekend?
I slept.
Well, I must have, because otherwise I had a blackout experience and have no idea where the weekend went. Saturday? A blur. Sunday? Shopping then a blur of hot dogs and fireworks and vegetating. Sunday? Pretty sure I actively tried to stay in bed until noon. All of this means that I don’t get any of my weekend work done, and my blogging, which I try to do on Sunday nights, is pushed to Wednesday. Wednesday, people! So, if you could cool it with the vacations and three-day weekends that wreak havoc on my schedule, I’d appreciate it. I ask this not for me, but for you.
All incredulousness aside, I had a lovely three-day weekend, what I remember of it, and this week is going to be spent cleaning out files, and cabinets, and doing all those things I haven’t gotten around to yet J
Happy reading!
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