Patience Smith, editor with Silhouette’s Romantic Suspense line
Lucienne Diver (me), agent with The Knight Agency
Kelly Mortimer, agent with The Kelly Mortimer Agency
CJ Lyons, bestselling medical suspense author
Homicide Lt. Danny Agan
Mary O'Gara, author, life coach, and professional psychic
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Keith R.A. DeCandido will be presented with the Grandmaster Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers on Saturday at Comic-Con. Go, Keith!
Faith Hunter is the featured author this month at Romance Divas. If you haven't read her work yet and want to know where to start, her latest (and first in the new Jane Yellowrock series) is SKINWALKER. I can promise, you won't be disappointed.
1-The gorgeous and talented Gena Showalter, RITA finalist for Best Paranormal
2-Me and Karen Whiddonat the Harlequin party with Gennita Low shaking her grove thing in the background
3-Becca Stumpf of Prospect Literary Agency eating a suggestively shaped potato and Gennita Low pointing it out for the camera at the St. Martin's Party
4-Kristin Nelson and Sherry Thomas, her double RITA-Award-nominee for Best First Book and Best Historical, all glammed up for the award ceremony
5-National Readers Choice Award-winner Jasmine Haynes (aka Jennifer Skully, aka JB Skully), erotica author Crystal Jordan and futuristic and fantasy writer Michele Lang
6-RITA Award winner Rosemary Clement-Moore and her fellow finalist Tina Farraro
7-Melissa Jeglinski of The Knight Agency, me and Deborah Blake (
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deborahblakehps ), fellow Llewellyn author at the Harlequin party
1-My agent, Kristin Nelson, and me at the Literacy Booksigning.
2-Deidre Knight and my fabulous author Susan Krinard at the signing
3-Janet Mullany and her pebbled nub...er, pebbled nub rant PIN
4-RITA-Award-winning author (boy, do I love saying that!) Rosemary Clement-Moore (
rclementmoore ) and me at the signing5-(from l to r) fantastic authors Melissa Francis and Jade Lee, Knight Agency agents Pamela Harty and Nephele Tempest
nephele There were so many people to see and so many pictures taken that I'll have to continue this in another post, probably tomorrow, even with the additional room behind the cut! In short, though, RWA was wonderful and frantic. I saw nine of my authors and at least as many editors, and those were just the scheduled meetings. Partied with Penguin and NAL, St. Martin's Press and Harlequin, sadly missing other parties, like Avon's, that I'd hoped to make. Met some authors I've talked to on-line but never before met in person (hey, Deborah and Saoirse!) , which was wonderful. Sold a lot of books. Cheered my authors on to their awards wins. Came home happy, but a little crispy around the edges. For those of you going pretty much straight from RWA to Comic-Con, I salute you. I don't know how you do it.
( More pics behind the cut... )
There will be a fuller report with many more pictures once I'm back from RWA and other travels, but for now I wanted to congratulate Rosemary Clement-Moore (first pic) for her awesome RITA Award win for HELL WEEK, second in her Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil young adult series and Jasmine Haynes (second pic, star spangled shirt, seen hear with the also incredible Crystal Jordan and Michele Lang) for her National Readers' Choice Award for Best Novella for "Undone" in the UNLACED anthology.
Rosemary Clement-Moore: RITA finalist for HELL WEEK, the second in her great Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil series
Crystal Jordan: erotica author extraordinaire
Susan Krinard: amazing and bestselling paranormal romance writer
Janet Mullany: wonderfully edgy author who wears many hats, including presenter of "Writing the Hot Historical" with me and Pam Rosenthal at the conference
(I just spotted this great write up including her new Immortal Jane Austen series in PW.)
Michele Lang: two words "LADY LAZARUS" - look for it in 2010
Jasmine Haynes/Jennifer Skully/JB Skully:
Debra Mullins: award-winning historical romance writer
Karen Whiddon: author of the tres popular Pack series for Nocturne
Vicky Dreiling: whose debut novels we've just sold to Warner Forever/Grand Central Publishing for publication in 2011
Not to mention the parties, the chocolate, the Oscar-style RITA Award Ceremony. Sigh. Life is hard.
I'm especially excited about the "Readers for Life" Literacy Signing event on Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Washington Marriott Wardham Park at 2660 Woodley Road NW , Washington, D.C. Just check out this amazing line-up. I'll be there with VAMPED as well!
If instead of RWA (or in addition to) your plans include San Diego ComicCon, check the schedule for great events featuring Rob Thurman, Marjorie M. Liu, Lynn Flewelling and Keith R.A. DeCandido and be sure to pencil in the Sci/Fi/Fantasy Discussion Panel withPatrick Rothfuss, Rob Thurman, Amber Benson, Thomas Sniegoski, Seanan McGuire, Jeanne Stein, Kat Richardson at Borders, 668 6th Street on Saturday, July 25th at 8 pm.
I'm also thrilled to report that David Mack, author of the forthcoming uf/supernatural suspense novel THE CALLING is guest blogger today at The Knight Agency's site. Comment there to win a signed copy of THE CALLING!
Also, I'll be a guest at the June Author Salon tomorrow night on Second Life at 9 p.m. eastern. I'm a little nervous, never having done this before, but I'm hoping to play around with my avatar tonight to make sure I know what I'm doing. If anyone has tips, I'm open to them. And, of course, I'd love to see you all there. Help me spread the word!
Some great news from RWA: Patti O'Shea won the Booksellers' Best award for Paranormal/TT/Futuristic for her wonderful IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR! My RITA and National Readers' Choice Award finalists, sadly, didn't bring home the gold, but are fabulous all the same.
In other news, Susan Swinwood from Harlequin's Spice line and I talked to the Passionate Ink (erotica and romantica) chapter of RWA and had a fine time. My authors Crystal Jordan and Janet Mullany/Jane Lockwood were there. The former did a fantastic job MCing the shindig, introducing me as "awesome with awesome sauce on top," which I'm thinking of engraving on my business cards. The latter (author of FORBIDDEN SHORES as Jane Lockwood and RULES OF GENTILITY as Janet Mullany) won one of the baskets and was kind enough to give me the PI tank top within it, which I wore home.
The Knight Agency hosted a great party at First Crush, a wine bar, in San Francisco, attended by all of our authors. We had a wonderful time. Open bar, munchies, fantastic company....
Here are a couple of pictures from RWA that I've been sent, the first Sherry Thomas, Linnea Sinclair, Courtney Milan, Sarah A. Hoyt and me at the Ballantine/Bantam party, the second is Crystal Jordan and me (again).
And a couple more, courtesy of Marjorie M. Liu, from the great trip we took out to the Locus offices in a very nice limo. For those of you who don't know, Locus is the trade magazine for science fiction and fantasy and the offices are located in the gorgeous hills of Oakland. The offices themselves are like a museum of artifacts and sf memorabilia. Charles Brown and all were fabulous hosts!
Above, in the first limo shot, we've got from left to right: Rosemary Clement-Moore, Marjorie M. Liu, Chris Marie Green, Michele Lang and Sarah A. Hoyt. In the second, also left to right: Chris Marie Green, Michele Lang, Sarah A. Hoyt, Lynn Flewelling and me.
I'll have some details up this week about Worldcon, where I did think to take my camera. Again, it was fabulous. My authors Carol Berg, David B. Coe, Faith Hunter, Christie Golden, Susan Krinard and Sarah A. Hoyt were all there, the latter two on panels with me. More soon!
Also, I've decided that next week, starting on the 18th, will be mystery week here on the blog. Stay tuned!
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