Romance Divas is, perhaps, the greatest free resource for writers on the planet. Don't believe me? Ask Writer's Digest! October is going to be a very special month, too! Swing by all this month to suck up the free-writery-goodies, including an amazing live event with Gena Showalter and Kresley Cole in the chatroom: on Thursday, October 28th at 7pm EST.
Not to worry! Romance Divas is hosting the
Not Going to Conference Conference...
The Conference You Don't Have to Get Out of Bed For!
Iswear I looked good for most of the NEC conference. I mean it. I packed heavy, took lots of clothes to change in and out of for emergencies, and even discovered you can, in fact, get creases out of your slacks with a Conair mini flat-iron. It's not just for jaunty curls and smooth tresses!
But were any of my respectable outfits caught on camera? No. No, that would be... oh, I dunno... fair?
So somebody tell me. Who's the fat frat boy with the cute chicks?
Angela James, editor extraordinaire, is coming to Romance Divas for a 3 day class on Epublishing! Come join us Jan 13-15 and ask her anything.
Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Epublishing (and some things you didn't know you should know)
Are you going? All the cool people are. The New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America is having its conference in March. This year's theme is Let Your Imagination Take Flight. I'll be there with bells on.
I am not a huge RWA person. I was a member for a while and got nothing out of it. But I hear so many people praise their local chapters to the moon that I always wish RWA would let you join your local without belonging to the National group.
For me, this is close to home and pretty inexpensive for non-members (only 10 bucks more). Though Framingham seems an odd choice (home of... err... UMass Framingham and,... um... right next to Natick? err), the hotel is a nice one and pretty convenient to Boston. Although I can think of things more convenient to Boston. Like, umm... Boston.
Anyway, you should go if you write. The place will be crawling with Divas and cool people like me.
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As if this day weren't sucking enough all by its own self, The RD Forum is down. Fawkadoodledoodies. Color me cranky.
Top 10 Things to do when RD is Down:
10. Twitter.
9. eBay for things I do not need.
8. Smart Bitches, Dear Author, Novelty Girls, Fictionistas, and Book Bites.
7. Call Ahmed on my cell and laugh when he says he got accidental wood on the elevator when some chubby girl was putting on my brand of lipstick.
6. Explain that Burt's Bees pommegranate lip balm isn't, technically, lipstick.
5. Food shopping... but I already did it, so that's a bust.
4. Fix the 4 key on my laptop, which I just discovered is sticking.
3. Mail a birthday card.
2. Blog.
AND THE NUMBER ONE THING TO DO WHEN RD IS DOWN....
1. SULK!!!
I'm all for a change now and again but let's face it... when you're an addict you can only allow for so much flexibility. And I'm an addict. In fact, I'm an addict several times over and may, in fact, be captain of the addiction team for the next Olympics. It's close. Ahmed is trying to sweat me out and Maria Alvarez is putting in a pretty impressive dark-horse showing.
But anyway...
Romance Diva's forum is down. This is problematic for me on several levels.
1. I can't dork around reading messages to waste time, avoiding the things I am not in the mood to do.
B. I can't check messages from fellow Divas.
Third. I can't send an IM to my secret santa telling her how incredibly cool the little gift she sent was. (Neato book and cooking set thingie for Max... so tres coolio!!)
Last. I can't get advice, give advice, and share the daily grind of writing with women who are smart, talented, funny, experienced, willing to share, willing to laugh with_not_at my own struggle. I can't connect to a few hundred best-friends-ever I've never, technically, met... but whom I love.
Is there a rehab clinic anywhere close by? Cuz dude... this would be like if they closed Starbucks. S'rsly. :-(
