Home again from 5 days at the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Orlando, Florida and exhausted! ON THE RADIOI woke up sounding a bit sultry this morning, but luckily my voice held out for the 26 (I think?) interviews I did live on sight at RT09 in the shiny new All Romance eBooks What’s Hot in Romance recording booth. It was a ton of fun meeting and speaking with all those authors. Hear the first recorded interview on tonight’s show 930 PM EASTERN as Amanda McIntyre and I dish about RT, her new releases and some of the surreal craziness that is RT. The rest of the recordings will be featured over the next 2 months during our normal time slot. I’ll post the author schedule on www.blogtalkradio.com/Whats-Hot-In-Romance. And if I can figure it out (which may require HTML on my part) I’ll post the pics too!ON THE TWEETSWe discovered a whole new level at RT this year–people on Twitter giving moment by moment updates of the entire conference right down to “Waiting on line for the Vampire Dinner” to “OMG Did you see Mr. Romance!” We would even go to the events, see them live, but rush home to […]

One week and I’ll be heading to the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Orlando, Florida. I don’t even know where to start in describing this convention to those of you who have never had the pleasure of attending. Perhaps this will give you some idea–in my upcoming new release (Unridden, due out this fall) the heroine is a romance author who attends an unnamed romance convention and while there, meets two cowboys who are in town for a bull riding competition. Anyway, based on my two years of attending RT, I describe in full, accurate details a bit of the convention in the book (the costume parties, the crazy sessions held for writers) and I also show what this author receives in her goodie bag (condoms, condom lollipops, penis warmers, playing cards featuring half-nude male models, chocolate flavored lube). Well, I get my Final Line Edits back yesterday and the editor felt that my convention description was a bit over the top.  Hmmmm, I say to myself as I open my closet and look over the stash of last years goodies I got in my Ellora’s Caveman Party Goody Bag the first night of the con, which included everything I […]