CONFERENCE TIME: Memorable Moments with...Christine Taylor

Conference season has started! Woohoo! No more counting down the days until I meet up with friends I usually only see once a year.

So much gets packed into 3-4 days and everyone's experiences are different. We go away with a variety of highlights or "a-ha" moments.

I thought I'd poll some of my RWAustralia & RW New Zealand friends and ask them to recall their most memorable moments of the conferences they've been to.

I hope you've been enjoying the snippets I've been featuring. For any first timers out there, don't be nervous or afraid of going to conference. More often than not you're going to find yourself welcomed VERY warmly and will probably go away with a host of friends whom you can't wait to meet next year at conference.

Enjoy!


Chris's Memories: What I love about RWA conferences is the fantastic atmosphere of excitement, anticipation and enthusiasm as old friends re-connect and new friendships are made.

Erin O'Hara & Chris - new friends!

There's nothing quite like being in a room of 300+ (mostly) women all talking/shouting/gabbling/cheering/sharing/laughing about romance and the art of writing it. To live and breathe and dream and talk romance non-stop for three or four days is exhilarating, liberating and oh, so much fun.

How could you not want to be part of it?

RWA RITA© & Golden Heart © Awards 2013

Can you hear the Aussie, Aussie, Aussie shout out reverberating around the country?

Announcements for the finalists in the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards (published authors) and Golden Heart Awards (for unpublished authors) have been happening overnight and the lists are now complete. For those who don't know, these awards are the Oscars of the romance publishing world!

The following friends and RWAustralia members have received that magical phone call:

GOLDEN HEART Finalists

"The Predator" - Christine Taylor (Romantic Suspense category)

  







RITA Finalists

Zoe’s Muster - Barbara Hannay (Contemporary Single Title)

Bride by Mistake - Anne Gracie (Historical)

Dead Heat - Bronwyn Parry (Romantic Suspense)

A Marriage Worth Fighting For - Lilian Darcy (Short Contemporary Series)



Fantastic news, ladies!!!

You can read a full accounting of the results for the RITA's and Golden Heart here.