Sigh. I’ve been trying for a couple of months now to get this Pondering completed and posted. But better late than never applies when life, things, appointments, and everything in general don’t go as you expect. So I hope you’ll read and enjoy my musings, my lessons, and my gushings anyway, even though time got [...]

Romance Writers of America ended their week-long conference in Orlando with laughter, tears, and love, all emotions that these authors and friends use to create their compelling romantic novels, which ultimately led them to be nominated for RWA’s Golden Heart and RITA Awards.

Over the past few weeks, one topic has engaged the writer message boards and forums. But, although I’ve read it as an author, it occurred to me that the reader hasn’t really said anything yet. So I thought I’d see what readers think about the current RWA ruckus. Yes, I’m a writer, but I’m a [...]

Well, it’s taken me a week to recuperate and get back into the swing of things since I got home from San Francisco.  Was it all worth it?  Damn straight! I was supposed to be at the RWA National Conference as a writer.  I started writing only a year or so ago, so I was [...]

I had everything planned. Really, I did. Yeah, right. I had plans too. Besides meeting and chatting with all the authors I’ve gotten to know online over the past several years, I was going to write to ya’ll and let you know what’s happening. What’s stopped me? I forgot my wireless adapter for my laptop. [...]

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This just in… Romance Writers of America’s 28th Annual National Conference is about to kick off in California. Authors, readers, publishers, agents, just to name a few, will be gathering in the city by the bay, San Francisco, starting today, July 30, through Sunday, August 2, at the Marriott Hotel at Union Square.

This just in… Sylvia Day has a lot going on, so listen up! You have to pay attention or you just might miss something important…

WOOT! My comment wouldn’t save right so being, you know, like the blog owner and, oh yeah, lazy, I just made a new post. Go team me! Aren’t you glad I am posting again? I know… I missed you guys too. The heart of my issue is INTERNET MEDIA does matter. RWA really needs to [...]

Wendy, a.k.a. THE Super Librarian, as an interesting post up regarding RWA, Press Passes and Fans: Group Mentality. As normal she has many a good point, go check it out if you haven’t seen it. I like RWA. I don’t see them as the window to becoming Nora Roberts and I don’t think you have [...]

Friday night is the night of parties and such at RWA. We had RSVP’ed to attend three and were going to go back to the room before heading out to the Harlequin party. I am forever a dumbass and didn’t notice it was at another hotel. On our way back to the room we ended [...]

RWA will host the “Readers for Life” Literacy Autographing on July 11, 2007, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. This is during the 27th Annual RWA Conference in Dallas, Texas at the in the Hyatt Regency hotel. There will be over 450 romance fiction authors will be signing books donated by publishers with the proceeds of the sales [...]

RWA changes are afoot… That Time of the Year Again What are some of those changes?

That should so be a button. I think we covered everything now. Jill covered erotica being the evol. The Blaze chick (whose name I am too lazy to go look up) drew the readers are the evol. St. Giles has amazon is the evol. Karen had a big hand in the covers are the evol. [...]

Wendy proves once again that she is the smartest There’s another dust-up brewing online over the RITA judging, the most interesting being Jamie Sobrato receiving a comment that her Blaze novel had “no strong romantic elements.” Basically it wasn’t a romance. Intriguing since last time I checked, Harlequin required books in the Blaze line to [...]