Saturday RWA Photos
On Saturday, I completely slept through my alarm, and woke up very shortly before I wanted to be at the Pocket signing. I had met so many wonderful people at the Pocket Dinner on Thursday night that I simply had to show up and get signed copies of free books.



At this point, I was realizing I had no pictures of Kresley Cole! Doh! And here I'd been in love with her all conference. So I took a photo of her signing (well, two really, but she made me delete the first one) a special copy just for my sister:




And then I insisted on getting a photo with Kresley herself, so I can tell people that I really did meet her and did not scare her (much) with my adoring attentions:




Meredith Duran was another author I kept running into, and was so terribly awesome. She is just as cute as her author photo, is easy to talk to, and I glommed her historical (DUKE OF SHADOWS) on the plane ride home. I love me some Meredith:




My fabulous editor, Micki Nuding, was also helping out at the signing, so I snagged a quick photo of us together:




In case you are wondering, yes, I am that pale...that and I was probably wearing too much make-up, given the fact that I applied it all within the space of about 30 seconds. Oh well.


Who else was at the Pocket signing? Lo and behold, it was a certain someone:



Wooo!!! Sherrilyn Kenyon!!!!!!! She was so nice and sweet, but she had a migraine. I kept trying to cut the conversation short so she wouldn't feel obligated to talk to me because she wasn't feeling well (since I was tripping over my tongue anyhow) but she kept making conversation and I realized that she knew I was all nervous and flustered and was trying to make ME comfortable. She was so nice. I promised my sister I'd get a signed copy of one of Sherri's books for her, and I did.



Here's Sherrilyn Kenyon again, Sharie Kohler (aka Sophie Jordan) in the middle, and Sherrilyn's co-author Dianna Love. Poor Sharie is so beautiful and sweet (she really made me feel welcome with all the Pocket authors) and I feel terrible that this is the only picture I got of her. Eek! Next year!


After the Pocket signing (I think they had more books per author than any other publisher...Pocket is awesome like that), we trooped downstairs to the plagiarism/copyright panel hosted by Smart Bitch Sarah. It featured Jane Litte (who is an attorney in her other life) and Nora Roberts (who needs no introduction). I have some pictures of that, but I passed them on to Jane, so check the Dear Author website for those.

Jozelle Dyer (Tor's Romantic Suspense editor) had probably the oldest edition of a Nora Roberts book that I had ever seen. It was beautifully preserved.



Nora was running out the door, but she was gracious enough to pause and sign it, and I think that pretty much made Jozelle's conference right there.






And that's all the conference photos I have! I sort of forgot to keep taking them as the afternoon progressed. I think there were a few others with me in them that I'll link back to as they pop up.

All in all, it was fun, so very very fun. I'm kinda sad that the next one is a full year away.