What Do You Do the Day You Get a RITA Nomination?

Well, if you're really lucky (as I was) you wake up having forgotten it's the day they [image error]phone the nominees for the RITA awards, which (if you don't know) are Romance Writers' of America's Oscars, chosen every year by fellow romance writers, statues awarded at a bigtime dress-up ceremony at our national conference in July.

So I sat down at my desk this morning (well, yesterday morning by now) and started working on the most pressing of my projects — which in my case, is a presentation for the Popul