Breakfast was lovely, waaaay high above in the big ass tower. I got up early, dressed in stuff from my lovely, magically returned bags, and headed off for food. My stomach was more settled and I looked forward to actually being able to eat. As for RWS, I won second place in my category. Yay! Not third! And making progress still...
I snuck over to the goodie room and found Sherry Thomas's ARC. Yay! Neener.
Then I headed off to the PRO retreat, which is a group of all us ladies who have completed and submitted complete, full-length manuscripts...but haven't pubbed yet. So we're all the most awesome class of losers. Sherrilyn Kenyon said we were more dedicated because we're not actually writing for money. Nice. I'll take that under advisement. But yeah, the PRO retreat was lovely. It actually proved to be very informational and not the least bit loser-ish.
The interesting thing I found was that while about 2/3 of attendees raised their hands when asked if they had a registered URL in place, but only six people in the whole room said they blogged daily. Hiya! That's me waving my hand.
The luncheon was very nice, nice food and cool folks at our table from the Austin chapter. Lisa Kleypas was oh-so-cheery as our keynote speaker. The girl is just too damn cute. Now I will tell everyone that I aspire to write trash. Yes! I'm not good enough yet! But I can't go with the armadillo analogy. I'll think of something else as my totem animal. And we got Lisa's contemp hardback as a freebie.
We took a breather for emails and dropping crap off in the room. I headed off to the Book Fair, which was rather limited, and then to the AGM (annual general meeting). Mini catfights. We heard rumors of Dorchester books dumped in the goodie room because of the Lit Signing snafu--poor Dorchester authors sitting around with no books to sigh. Nope, but here were tons of new books. My free book count is up to 15, worth $155 street value. I'm halfway to my goal of recouping conference fees in books.
The welcome reception was supposed to feature light hors d'oeuvres, but dude! Full taco bar! Nice! We had our whole dinner of tasty taco fare. Then we hit the movie night--more free books--and watched Romancing the Stone. I haven't seen that movie for about 15 years, and we all died. It was an MST3K festival of romance writers watching an obvious homage to the romance genre. And Michael Douglas was totally hot back then. Nice.
Tomorrow. G'damn. Pitches!
I snuck over to the goodie room and found Sherry Thomas's ARC. Yay! Neener.
Then I headed off to the PRO retreat, which is a group of all us ladies who have completed and submitted complete, full-length manuscripts...but haven't pubbed yet. So we're all the most awesome class of losers. Sherrilyn Kenyon said we were more dedicated because we're not actually writing for money. Nice. I'll take that under advisement. But yeah, the PRO retreat was lovely. It actually proved to be very informational and not the least bit loser-ish.
The interesting thing I found was that while about 2/3 of attendees raised their hands when asked if they had a registered URL in place, but only six people in the whole room said they blogged daily. Hiya! That's me waving my hand.
The luncheon was very nice, nice food and cool folks at our table from the Austin chapter. Lisa Kleypas was oh-so-cheery as our keynote speaker. The girl is just too damn cute. Now I will tell everyone that I aspire to write trash. Yes! I'm not good enough yet! But I can't go with the armadillo analogy. I'll think of something else as my totem animal. And we got Lisa's contemp hardback as a freebie.
We took a breather for emails and dropping crap off in the room. I headed off to the Book Fair, which was rather limited, and then to the AGM (annual general meeting). Mini catfights. We heard rumors of Dorchester books dumped in the goodie room because of the Lit Signing snafu--poor Dorchester authors sitting around with no books to sigh. Nope, but here were tons of new books. My free book count is up to 15, worth $155 street value. I'm halfway to my goal of recouping conference fees in books.
The welcome reception was supposed to feature light hors d'oeuvres, but dude! Full taco bar! Nice! We had our whole dinner of tasty taco fare. Then we hit the movie night--more free books--and watched Romancing the Stone. I haven't seen that movie for about 15 years, and we all died. It was an MST3K festival of romance writers watching an obvious homage to the romance genre. And Michael Douglas was totally hot back then. Nice.
Tomorrow. G'damn. Pitches!
5 comments:
Congrats on your second place.
My fingers are crossed for your pitches.
Relax and breathe.
Thanks, Michelle. That's what my husband told me before I left -- slow down!
Congrats on second place!!
LOL - I'd never thought of recouping conference fees in books *g*. Alas, being from Canada, it would cost me almost as much to ship that same number home, never mind I might get stuck paying GST on them. Hope you succeed :)
Tell us more about the catfights!
Fists did not fly, nor did claws extend. However, one stickler board member did invoke the rules about how, at an AGM, those who wish to speak are limited to two minutes and cannot speak again until all others who want to have done so. Etc etc etc. So yeah, it was a bit snippy, folks were offended, many unflattering comments were delivered by ladies at the back of the room, which seemed to be where most of the epub types hung out.
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