Sorry I’ve been AWOL pretty much all summer. In addition to traveling the country for conferences and booksignings in my RV, my boyfriend and I also had his two boys (11 and 9) with us the entire summer and we’ve had a major adventure!
We started in New York City, worked our way over to Michigan and the Upper Peninsula and then a long stint in the north woods of Wisconsin with their grandparents, a visit to Mt. Olympus water park in the Wisconsin Dells, a five-day conference in Hohenwald, TN investigating several haunted locations, selling books, and doing lectures, and then down to Orlando, Florida, for the 30th Annual Romance Writers of America Conference.
Are you tired just reading all of that?
I wanted to share some photos from the RWA Conference in Orlando, where I spent time with my fellow Buzz Girls, my fabulous agent, Deidre Knight, my awesome editor, Rose Hilliard, and so many other friends.
I did a panel with my non-fiction editor, Rose Hilliard, from St. Martin’s Press, and buddy, Louisa Edwards on “Creating a Symbiotic Editor-Author Relationship.” We had a great turn out and people told us they got a lot out of the presentation.
And here I am with Rose at the St. Martin’s party on the Disney Boardwalk.
Met some famous ladies on my trip…
The fabulous Heather Graham, who can sing “Bobby MaGee” like no one’s business and is also into ghosts and SCUBA diving.
The ever-amazing Suz Brockmann, fellow New Englander.
And WOW…THE Meg Cabot, queen of YA. She’s a total doll and so very nice.
And here’s my long-time buddy, Simone Elkeles, and her brand new friend, Rita…for Best YA! So proud of Simone!
Of course…time cutting up with critique partner and bestest buddy, Wendy…
Hanging with fabu YA author (and critique partner), Jenn Echols…
Fellow Knight Agency sistah and YA author who sat next to me at the Literacy Signing, Linda Gerber…
And, with my sweetie, fellow author, Patrick Burns…
Despite coming home with a severe cold and sinus infection, it was a great conference. Now that the summer has come to a close, I will be posting more often. Hope you’ll keep visiting!
Hugs,
Marley = )
