Hey San Antonio! Are you seeing large groups of people
carrying tote bags and talking about writing? Are the elevator doors of the
Marriott Rivercenter covered with images of books? Are you seeing ads
everywhere promoting authors and books? Guess what. The RWA® Annual Conference
is underway.
This year the party’s going on in San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter
and Marriott Riverwalk hotels, San Antonio, Texas beginning today and running
through Saturday. A fair number of the Not Your Usual Suspects authors are
attending and will be participating tonight in the Literacy Booksigning, which
is opened to the public. Over 500 authors will be together signing their books
from 5:30 -7:30 p.m, 3rd Floor Ballroom, Marriott Rivercenter. The
proceeds will benefit ProLiteracy Worldwide, Literacy Texas, Restore Education,
and Each One Teach One San Antonio.
Then over the next several days attendees will be treated to
the best in writing and business workshops the industry has to offer, not to
mention the hobnobbing with editors and agents. Many a book deal has come out
of the conference.
However, this group will be focused on Saturday night when
the Awards banquet is held as one of our own, Toni Anderson, is up for a RITA®
for her book ‘The Killing Game’. How big is Toni’s nomination?
The purpose of the RITA® award is to promote excellence in
romance genre by recognizing outstanding published romance novels and novellas.
The award itself is a golden statuette named after RWA’s first president, Rita
Clay Estrada. Every year up to 2000 romance novels are entered in the contest.
2000. Ultimately, only ten authors will
walk away with the award, but what Toni has accomplished already deserves all
the congratulations in the world.
While I can’t be at the conference this year, I will be
glued to all the tweets [#RWA14]and facebooking from my friends. Best of luck
to Toni!
J
Carol Stephenson
7 comments:
I'm missing it too, but I have one thing to say: Go Toni!!
Go Toni!Go Toni!Go Toni!
I'm here and will be cheering for Toni!! :)
Oh my goodness, you just made me cry. Thanks SO much. I'm so uncool with this stuff. Great to see Julie, can't wait to see everyone else soon!
Go Toni! I'm home but will be cheering for you!
Julie, Toni. We want pictures!!!!
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