More RWA pictures - Friday Edition
I'm running out of steam on the RWA blogging, so I'll at least post all my pictures, right? Right.




Okay, so these weren't from Friday, but here's the ginormous luncheon they had on Thursday for the keynote speaker. This room was huge huge and it was crammed full with lunching women.



One more:




I also ran to the first signings of the convention - Avon and Warner. For those of you that don't believe me, let me show you the hauls from these two signings alone.

Avon:



Warner:



Please note that I showed remarkable restraint despite all the free books. I only took about half of what was in each room. I sh&t you not! I also missed most of the later signings (though I did score a few ARCs from the Tor signing - they had the best goodies!) or I think I could have easily walked away with two enormous boxes of books instead of just the one enormous box that is currently being shipped back home to me. It was srsly crazy, y'all. You have no idea. RWA = book mecca.

Then, Meljean arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meljean and Me (I have this weird tendancy to lean away from the camera for some really dumb reason that I haven't figured out yet). I totally look stoned but I swear I'm not:




After that, there was the Berkley signing! I showed up late but still managed to score 5 or 6 books. Alas, I missed getting a signed copy of Meljean's book, but as she was signing the last one, I asked her to strike a pose. In true diva form, Meljean pleased the crowd:




Once the Berkley signing was done, we wandered into the lobby and ran into a few people. Meljean got huggy with Gena Showalter:




Jane and Rocki:




Then, they ditched me and Meljean. No love! But we went to the Harlequin party with Nalini and a bunch of other people. I took a picture of a salad.

Really.




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Isn't that the SADDEST Conference photo ever? A damn salad? I swear there was a point to it, though. I was going to take all kinds of pictures of the wackiness and sheer fun of the Harlequin party, and I was going to start with the decorations and hors d'ouvres because they looked so neat. Unfortunately after one pathetic picture of a salad, my camera was full.

CURSES!

So yeah. All you get is a measley shot of a salad. We hung out at the Harlequin party for a while, and then on the balcony when it got too noisy to talk and we wanted to talk shop. We left early and all went to a late night Batman showing with several other friends. It was really great and I enjoyed the movie...but I kept nodding off at the important parts, which made me sad. I still don't know what happened to the joker.


Next up, Saturday photos (which, oddly enough, do not involve Rita photos. I R Bad Photographer.)