I finished with the conference just to get plunged head first into school work and work work, but I’ve finally managed to shovel out and I’m getting back into the writing swing. About time huh? To encourage getting some serious writing done, I signed up for NaNoWriMo. This is the first time I’ve ever done it so I’m really looking forward giving it a shot and seeing what I can produce. I tend to be more productive when I have someone I’m accountable to or if I’ve got deadlines. This will be great because it gives me both. Plus some of my Wild Rose friends have signed up as well so it will be sort of a team effort. If you’re doing NaNo feel free to add me as a buddy my user id is rvause.

Also, I may not have mentioned it before, but RomanceNovel.tv came to the NJRW conference this year. The RNT team is such a great group and they are so supportive of the genre. I was really honored to have them do an interview with little newbie author me. Considering the line up of interviews they had it made me feel pretty special. The flip side of the coin is I’m not the most photogenic as far as I’m concerned which is causing me to be excited and at the same time dread seeing my interview. LOL! Anyway, the first segment from the conference is out I’ve embedded it here, but please do check out RomanceNovel TV’s website they’ve got a ton of great interviews, plus forums and a bunch of other cool things on the site. This clip is of some of the authors that participated in our Literacy book signing.

Part 2 of the book fair will be posted this Friday, Nov. 2nd and other segments will follow as the weeks progress. I know I’ll enjoy watching them all.

That’s it from me for this post. To my fellow NaNoers – Good Luck and Happy Writing.

I’ve been MIA the last few weeks because I’ve been neck deep in planning the NJRW conference. This past weekend was show time and let me say it was awesome!!
Now granted I was crazed for the better part Friday, but all in all the conference was a raging success. Of the three years that I’ve done this I have to say it was the best ever. I have to send a huge thank you to my committee you ladies rock! Outside of the success of the overall event I had a number of really cool things happen for me personally. First, I had two editor appointments. I got requests for fulls from both houses, but one definately sounded more enthusiatic then the other. Still, either way it’s good to get a request. I rushed from my second appointment over to another conference room where I was interviewed by RomanceNovel.tv. They did an author on author in which Rita Award winning author Sophia Nash interviewed me. She also used to be a television journalist, I think she won an Emmy for her work. You should definately check her out. Still, it was very exciting for newbie author me to be interviewed. And let’s face it free publicity is free publicity.

The next thing that happen was one of my speakers who I’m friendly with asked me if I’d be interested in being part of a panel workshop at National in San Francisco next July. I get a charge from that because I never really feel like I have much to teach people. It makes you feel good to realize you do have knowledge you can share with others tha tmight prove useful.

Later that evening, I went to dinner with the Christine WIthohn and the lovely ladies of Book Cents Lierary Agency. These are some of the funniest people ever. We dined and talked late into the evening and had a fantastic time. After that we went down to the conference after-party and it was still going strong. By the time I got home on Sunday I was completely wiped.

Thank you again to all who helped organize the conference and all that attended. You help create one OUTSTANDING weekend.