Hi from RT

I don't have time to share everything that's been happening at RT Booklovers Convention, but wanted to give a little taste. Last night Avon Books had a wonderful party with a chocolate fondue fountain and FREE BOOKS! It's like the best thing ever. I got books by authors I love like Tera Lynn Childs as well as ones I've never heard of but am intrigued by, like 1920's NYC-set and Harry Houdini inspired YA Born of Illusion by Teri Brown. I've been seeing/meeting people like erotic romance novelist Skylar Kade and historical romance (among others) author Beverly Jenkins, who has a bibliography about California history in the back of Destiny's Embrace , and paranormal author Aprilynne Pike and Suleikha Snyder (check out her hot, poly Bollywood books Spice and Smoke and Spice and Secrets and Bollyamorous - what a title!), inspired by all the New Adult authors, like Cora Carmack, whose bio says in part: "I enjoy placing my characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too." I'm also on the hunt for authors to submit to my 3 upcoming anthologies (that goes for anyone, I love working with new writers!). I'm also a fan of , especially their YA books like The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding, and I am looking forward to their new YA release The Summer I Became a Nerd . Yesterday I attended the RT Awards and while it was a long ceremony, listening to the winners talk about, in John Scalzi's case, wanting his mother-in-law to read his books, or writing through a son's cancer treatment, or, like Tiffany Reisz, working in a bookstore and reading RT to find the smutty books and now being a bestselling, award winning author, I was very moved.

I'm very inspired and as soon as I kick this evil cold/cough and get settled into my new home in New Jersey I will be digging in to some exciting new writing projects. Here's some shots of the chocolate fountain, and the bacon I dipped in it: