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RWA Report – Day Two

Posted by Hope Ramsay Jun 30 2011, 12:01 am in RWA Nationals

My highlights for June 29, 2011 — Day Two of RWA Nationals

1) The morning panel featuring authors Steve Berry, Diana Gabaldon, and Tess Gerritsen provided an interesting peek into the lifes and minds of best selling authors. Did you know that Gabaldon started Outlander as a practice novel?

2) The Keynote luncheon featuring Madeline Hunter was the definite highpoint of the day for me. I was late to the session, arrived to a packed house and sat down at a table in the back of the room, only to discover that sitting right next to me was romance legend Rita Clay Estrada, one of RWA’s founders, and the name sake for the Rita Award. What an honor it was to hear her tell the story of how RWA was founded, and then to have a moment with her to hand her one of my Romance Trading Cards and bend her ear about the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog.

3) Madeline Hunter’s Keynote address kicked butt. The buzz here seems to be all about the new digital age and she had a lot to say about how new epub formats are giving authors more options to reach readers.

4) The PAN Retreat keynote session featured Steven Axelrod of Axelrod Agency, Robert Gotlieb, Chairman of Trident Media, Matthew Shear, Publisher, St. Martin’s Press, and Liate Stehlik, Publisher, Morrow/Avon/Voyager all talking about the state of romance publishing. As you can imagine, the topic of electronic books and self-publishing was the the hot button topic.

5) For me, this segued to a get-together whith my agent and several of her clients for drinks and munchies at a fab lounge overlooking Times Square. Needless to say, we didn’t figure out the future of publishing in our gab fest, but the calamari rocked.

Below you’ll find some of my photos — taken over the last couple of days.

The Rubies Take Manhattan

Ruby Romance Trading Cards. Collect them all for a chance to win a prize

Rita Henuber at the Literacy Signing

Liz Talley Signs Books

Autumn Jordon at the Literacy Signing

Addison Fox displaying her Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Trading Cards

Darynda Jones at the Literacy Signing

Amanda Brice (left) with Laurie Kellogg

Tami Hogan Signing books

Jeannie Lin at the Literacy Signing

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9 Responses to “RWA Report – Day Two”

Carla says:

June 30, 2011 at 12:14 am

Woo hoo! Thanks for making this trip so much FUN!!

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Eileen Emerson says:

June 30, 2011 at 6:16 am

Wow — I love the trading cards, the t-shirts and the table cards in the Ruby pics of the literary signing. That’s some great marketing you ladies are doing!

Not to mention getting to talk to the “original” Rita! What an awesome happenstance that she was sitting at that table.

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Shea Berkley says:

June 30, 2011 at 10:12 am

I can imagine the buzz going on at the PAN retreat. Wow, I wish I’d been there. Sounds like the fun just never stops.

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Bev Pettersen says:

June 30, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Thanks, Hope. Love the pictures and the reports. Sounds like so much fun. Everyone looks very happy!! Bet the calamari was delicious.

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Diana Layne says:

June 30, 2011 at 2:57 pm

Rubies rock! Thanks for posting the info and fun pics, Hope! And someone needs to write a blog on all the info gathered on the ebooks at the conference! Inquiring minds want to know!

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Elise Hayes says:

June 30, 2011 at 2:57 pm

What an honor to get to sit next to Rita Estrada!

Thanks for taking the time to post from Nationals, Hope. It’s fabulous to see the photos and get to hear snippets of the day’s adventures.

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Elisa Beatty says:

July 1, 2011 at 8:39 pm

What wonderful pictures! It’s so fabulous to see all those RUBIES!!!! The t-shirts look fabulous!!!

Oh, I wish I were there!

Thanks for posting this, Hope!!!

(And I just can’t BELIEVE Outlander was a “practice” novel!)

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July 4, 2011 at 4:23 am

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