Posts Tagged ‘RWA’
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Just a few thoughts to add to Lynn’s.
It was a pleasure to meet her, as well as AAR Senior Reviewer Jane Granville. We also met AAR readers, including SusanDC and Sandlynn, both of whom we all know so well from our message boards. It’s always fun to put a face to an online personality and this year was no exception.
During the conference Lynn and I met with several people very prominent in romance publishing – who are, of course, also big decision-makers – and I think there was a very positive take-away on both sides.
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Tags: conference, dc, RWA
Posted in Authors, Books, Publishing, RWA, Sandy AAR | 8 Comments »
Monday, July 20th, 2009
My first trip to the RWA conference felt like complete sensory overload, but in a good way. We kept the live coverage going over at AAR last week, but today I’m finally having a chance to catch my breath, and think about it all. When I got there, I finally got to meet and spend time with Sandy Coleman, whom I’ve worked with here at AAR since 2003, but had never actually met in person. After the literacy signing, I also got to meet Senior Reviewer Jane Granville and some of our message board regulars, which was very fun. Putting names to faces was nice, but I especially enjoyed the chance to spend time with some warm, friendly people who enjoy talking romance novels as much as I do.
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Tags: Publishing, Romance, RWA
Posted in Authors, Book news, Books, Lynn AAR, Romance | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
RWA Nationals are coming up July 15 – 18 and this year both Lynn Spencer and I will be attending.
In previous years, AAR has offered extensive coverage – usually after the conference is over. But the world – and the Web – are more immediate places today and our inclination is to adopt a coverage model that’s worked well all over the Internets.
What does that mean? The biggest and most comprehensive change is coverage of conference sessions. In the past AAR has included long reports on sessions and our inclination is – with a few exceptions – to ditch it. Our thinking is two-fold: first, RWA is an organization for writers and AAR is a site for readers and, second, there are many places on the Web that can be counted on for extensive coverage of the writer-ly side of things.
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Tags: book signing, conference, Literacy, national, RWA
Posted in All About Romance, Authors, Books, Romancelandia, RWA | 7 Comments »
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The line up is up and it looks fantastic! The 2009 booksigning – open to everyone – will take place on July 15th at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in DC from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Are you going? If so, who are you most interested in meeting? RWA controversies aside, is there anybody not on the list that you’d love to see there?
-Sandy AAR
Tags: Authors, dc, literacy signing, Romance, RWA
Posted in Authors, Books, RWA | 18 Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The calls are going out today to 2009 Rita and Golden Heart finalists. Official results are going up at the RWA site and Twitter is also hopping. Just search for hashtag #rwanoms for a live feed. (And, no, you don’t have to be a Twit to follow results.)
Developing story…
We can report first here that Sherry Thomas was nominated for Best First Book, as well as Historical Romance.
Tags: RITAS, RWA
Posted in Book news, Books | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
So, do we have any Calvin and Hobbes fans here? Remember Calvinball? You never play it the same way twice, and the rules are whatever Calvin says they are. These rules sometimes change midstream and often make no sense.
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Tags: E-books, RITAS, RWA
Posted in Books, E-books, RWA | 9 Comments »
