Five Favorite Tidbits from #RWA11

This from Dear Author's post-RWA wrap-up:

Family oriented sweet contemporaries, mostly set in some small town (make up your own if you don't want to use a real one), are hugely popular. Every editor I talked to seemed interested in those. I have no idea why urbanites aren't interesting. Also, the love of the cowboy hero was palpable.

This from Carolyn Jewel's tweetstream while attending Grand Central Publishing's spotlight:

Grand central is seeing increased interest in contemporary cowboy stories

This from Monica Kaye's tweetstream while attending a workshop where editors mentioned what they were looking for:

Alicia Condon- Hot contemporary western romance

This from a friend's email during conference:

Bookseller panel: Cowboys are uber hot right now. :)

This from agent Kristin Nelson's newsletter:

Contemporary cowboys seems to be on a lot of lists.

And why would these be my favorite tidbits? Well, because of this, of course.

Alison Kent's UNDENIABLE, in which three hellraising cowboys return home to Texas to revisit the past, stir pots long settled, and cause the sexiest kind of trouble for the women in town, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley Heat, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.