Posts in Series for Renee Luke
- A fool am I?
- Workin’ it!
- What have you done for me lately?
- What’s in a Name?
- Summer. Summer. Summer…
- Getting Excited
- Un-Covered
- Meet My Man
- Rockin’-Rollin’ Emotions
- Fourteen Years
- Googled Covers
- My CALL Story
- Hot Sum…Autumn Nights
- Making Him Want It
- The Day After…
- Our Friendship affair
- ONE MORE MONTH!
- It’s All About Schedules
- Gimme Some Sugar
In just five weeks Romance Writers of America’s National Conference will be underway:dance: in Reno, Nevada.
I’m getting pretty excited. There is so much to look forward to. This is my pink ribbon year. My first sale year. Sigh…
I went to Denver 2002, and New York 2003, but was unable to attend last years conference in Dallas. This year is almost local for me, with just over an hour to drive, then five fan-frickin’-tasitic days to put faces with internet names, to catch up with friends, to share laughs and news while sharing a drink or two or three or five in the bar. :beer: There’s nothing better than sitting down in a relaxed atmosphere with authors you admire, chatting concepts with agents you’re eyeing, or pitching ideas and manuscripts to editors you’ve been stalking….er, :doh: querying.
And, there is so much to learn. I’ve been gazing at the listed workshops in a fashion only akin to a child worshiping the Wish Book Christmas Catalog.:pray: A few I’ve circled as possible got-to-get-there classes: Author/Agent Career Building with Pam Hopkins, Barbara Collins Rosenberg, Joanne Rock, and Catherine Mann, The Career Doctor with Irene Goodman, RWA ‘Idol’ with Miriam Kriss, Irene Goodman, and Lucia Macro, Discovering Your Author Brand with Theresa Meyers, Revisions 102++ with Jennifer Crusie, It’s Like Totally About YA, Dude! with Niki Burnham, Alesia Holliday, and Lynda Sandoval, and finally the NAL spotlight. :bounce: I can’t wait!:bounce: I can’t wait!:bounce: I can’t wait!
This is a first–The first year for PASSIONATE INK, which by the end of July we’re hoping will be a provisional chapter of RWA because some like it hot! Despite all the :banned: it looks like we’ll be approved because what we write is CLEARLY romance and not porn no matter how you choose to define what romance is. This year I’ll meet the amazing women who have teamed with me on the board of Passionate Ink and braved a virtual thunderstorm of emails, flashes of anger and resentment, a rallying of forces and voices and together we’ve made it through the rain and found the rainbow with huge, fat pot of gold. Members of PI, I can’t wait to meet you and cheer our successes! :clap: I see only great things for PI’s future:!:
And this year, on RWA’s 25th Anniversary my best friend and awesome CP is a Golden Heart finalist for the second time. I won’t mention that since we’re within driving distance that her husband is coming up on GH night and stealing my seat away from me, forcing me to party :party: in the back.:cry: I can’t wait to see her picture on the board, her name in lights–to applaud all of the authors who poured their hearts into finaling books.:love:
After seven super-cool months of getting to know Sylvia and becoming friends, we’ll finally meet in person. Sweetie, thank you for everything:!:
So, are YOU going to Reno this year, to attend RWA’s Silver Anniversary? :lol:Have you spent hours reading and searching the workshops for the ones that excite you? Have you made plans to go to parties, meet up with old friends, share dinner with your CPs? :rofl: Did you make appointments to pitch to agents and editors? Are any of you as freakin’ excited as I am?:dance:
I’m excited!! :bounce:
I only have a couple workshops that are must-sees, one by my editor and one by my agent, but there are others I plan to attend if I’m not networking.
I’ll be sitting down with my agent for the first time in Reno, meeting my editor for the first time, meeting my main cp for the first time (who is up for a Golden Heart!!) :dance: , meeting many of my online friends, going to a few chapter parties (the most exciting of which being the Passionate Ink gathering :pirate: ), going to two of my publisher’s parties, (depending on National) some chapter president gatherings, and taking a long needed vacation while I’m at it.
on June 19th, 2005 at 8:57 am
I’ll be there!! I’m excited!!! :party:
I’ll be partying in the back..so come say Hi!
on June 19th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
I’m going, too. I love attending the lunches, the workshops and the publishing house spotlights. I went to Dallas last year but I wasn’t nearly as caught up in events as I am this year.
I hope I get a chance to meet you there, Renee. It’s so inspiring to see pink ribbons.
on June 19th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Wow, a lot of excitement going on! I don’t get to go this year. I didn’t go last year either. But one year real soon I plan to be at nationals too. Until then, toss back a mai tai on my behalf wouldya?
on June 20th, 2005 at 10:51 am
Layne, I’m sorry you won’t be able to make it, but I’ll definitely toss one back for you. :beer:
Get your party hats on :party:, ladies, we’re going to have a great time.
It’ll be here soon….
on June 20th, 2005 at 1:38 pm