Let us all pause and reflect for a brief moment on poor, poor Alex W, the unfortunate soul who won the Rachel Haimowitz giveaway and is now, as we speak, gaining custody of her Belonging verse loot.
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Congrats, Alex! Enjoy your goodies!!!
And…I went to RWA National in NYC last week, very recently back so I suppose the thing to do is a conference recap, right? Isn’t that what us writerly folks are supposed to do? Why certainly!
Uh…yeah.
Hm.
The pink lemonades in the atrium bar were really, really good?
LOL, I wasn’t quite that bad, but sadly enough, I had a lot more fun meeting new people and discussing new/current projects with friends than scrambling from one workshop to the next. All the books I have on deck through late fall are already spoken for so I didn’t even have anything to pitch. Which was sad because I adore pitching. For instance, pitching Rachel Haimowitz out of the sky lobby during the Futuristic, Fantasy & Paranormal chapter’s party, The Gathering. No, I didn’t do it. Rachel’s still drawing breath, LOL, but alas, so very tempting. 😉 I must’ve been looking shifty & evil, though, because she bribed me away from the party with the very high window views to meet Damon Suede for drinks. OMG, what a hoot. Yes, Rachel is vile (& I must fess up, just as fun & funny IRL as she is online), but Damon? The Emporer of All That is Awesome! What a blast, can’t wait to do it again. 😀 The only pardonable excuse, btw, for not having picked up your copy of his Hot Head is brain damage and you know what? Even brain damage isn’t going to fly. Due to a slight miscalculation at the Starbucks fount of woot, I was up til 4am one night with a caffeine buzz that a couple Coronas couldn’t knock back, jangling half out of my gourd and also perversely floaty, but I was reading it — When I say Hot Head is whoa? Trust me, the book is WHOA. Go. Read. It. NOW.
I also got to fangirl stalk K.A. Mitchell and L.B. Gregg, scoring signed books including an ARC of Not Knowing Jack — WOO HOO!!! (No, you can’t have it. Is miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine! Bwa ha ha!) So that was extremely cool.
I was able to meet up with my good compadre from Goodreads, Susan, and Taylor Donovan (whose Six Degrees of Lust will release with MLR Press soon) for the Literacy Signing the first night, too. I lost Taylor (don’t worry, she’s still alive — I just couldn’t find her in the ginormous crowd, LOL), but Susan and I compared fave authors and books afterwards, which was also very cool.
And…uh…the rest of the time I dicked off. LMAO! Oh no, wait. I didn’t screw around, no way. Uh uh. I
Anyhoo, the hotel survived my kids treating the elevators like amusement park rides and I tipped well to make up for…existing, LOL…So it’s all good.
Especially when I come home to the kick off of the Goodreads M/M Group’s Hot Summer Days…M/M Style event!!! YAY!!! I was on the road so I’ve some catching up to do already, but the event couldn’t have launched better with L.C. Chase‘s “Open Tackle”. Join one of the top, super-friendly and fun groups on Goodreads today to share in the free reads all summer long!
Happy 4th of July to all us pesky Americans — and happy reading!
