RT in Houston Day 4...I think...

Business first!

Thank you for all the supportive emails and cyber hugs posted here and sent privately. You girls are the bomb! Thank you, too, to the fab authors (Angela, Cheyenne, Jordan) for dropping by.

Okay, Snuffy is Gone. For good, I hope. I did an MJD (Mary Janice) on him (okay, I didn't because I don't have her balls, but "he" kept writing and writing and I had to tell him to shove it).

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I'm preparing my workshop for next week's conference: The Importance of the Second Book (sophomore, trilogy, and series) at the Colorado Romance Writers conference next week. Sounds so serious, doesn't it?

Then there is that closing speech. Argghhh. Let's not think about that one. Maybe I'll talk about raw sex and Snuffy. "He" must have been sent to me for some reason....

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Readers can't find VIRTUALLY HIS at Walmart's yet. This is worrisome. I see La Linda Howard's newest Silhouette and single title but no Gennita Low. This is, by the way, the fear and paranoia of all authors...that their books Out This Week are sitting in a box in the back room. The first week is so important for the sales department, you know. Sigh. I wish I know where to check.

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More Romantic Times Convention pics:

RT NIGHTS

By this time of the week, you realized that everything is a blur. Every night is a party...this one, I believe is during the Cowboy Vampire Ball. We're in Houston, you know. This is Sly, a good friend, who share an affinity with me for pineapple and zinfandel. We had a couple and this is what happens:

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Then, I got cuffed to Chris, which wasn't a bad thing at all. Uh huh. Do you know it's very hard to undo buttons and catches with gloves on, no matter how thin they are? Yup. Things I do for research....

Author Mary Stella had a good laugh at my antics:

I bumped into my publicist and she introduced me to the lovely Sasha Lord (the farthest right).

Then I was attacked by this dude with fangs when I was trying to take a pic in front of the skulls. He was very weird; he kept following me around showing his fangs.

So I ran back to my table to hide behind these guys:

I remember dancing and drinking but that's not what RT is all about. ;-) Because the next day was the BOOK FAIR, which is what RT is ALL ABOUT. Three hundred authors in one room. Hundreds and hundreds of eager fans moving up and down the aisle, talking to authors and getting books signed. That is the best fun of all!

This is me all authorly-looking with Margaret Bell, a bookseller from Australia:

This is me with Del Rhea, a reader who brought ALL my books from her collection as well as friends'! Her husband carried a whole suitcase of books for her! Words cannot express how I feel, that someone would go through so much trouble for me. Thank you, Del Rhea!

The photo below has been approved by Jordan Summers ;-)

I had fun with Jade Lee below. We are still hoping to write that anthology we'd been talking about for years. Jade and I (and hopefully Liz Maverick and Marjorie Liu) want to write a series of novellas codenamed Crouching Tigresses Magic Swords. Ah well. These things take time.

Marjorie sat five or six authors apart from me. I was sitting by Kathy Love again, a wonderful author with a great sense of humor. During the last half hour, I ran around buying the books I've wanted: Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Marjorie Liu's....let's not make me cry about my lost books again, shall we?

I was so hungry after the Book Fair (10am-2.30pm!), I was looking around the hotel lobby for Prime Meat.

;-). I mean, real food...until later, of course, when I have to judge the Mr. Romance contest. Heehee.

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