Up Close and Personal

It's getting closer and closer to the time when How to Dance with a Duke will begin to trickle out into the blogo/reviewo-sphere. Am I afraid? Uh, yeah! But I'm also very, very excited to finally share my book with readers.

They always talk about how incredibly slow the print publishing industry moves, and it's true. But it's also true that this week marks the one year anniversary of the day I got "the call." And over the course of this year I've finished another book, and worked to edit and put the finishing polishes on what will be my very first published novel.

As a celebration/partay-with-my-peeps-disguised-as-a-networking-trip I'm heading this weekend to Atlanta for the Georgia Romance Writers' always exciting Moonlight and Magnolia's Conference. It is fitting that this is the conference where I celebrate my one year anniversary, because the keynote speaker, Eloisa James, is the one who (probably unbeknownst to her) got me writing again via her now defunct reader bulletin board.

Also fitting, is that my lovely, talented, fabulous editor, Holly Blanck, of St. Martin's Press, will also be there. And a little bird tells me that she'll be bringing some of these lovely treats:

That, my lovelies, is a brand spanking new ADVANCED READER'S COPY!!! One step closer to the finished product!

Crazytown, I know.  It's amazing how long and how short a year can be.

If you're at the Moonlight and Magnolia's Conference, stop by and say hello!