07/29/10
I’m here along with almost 2,000 other devotees, writers, editors, and publishers of romantic fiction. It’s exhilarating and exhausting.
Highlights of Day One:
At the airport shuttle kiosk, when I purchased my ticket to the Dolphin Hotel, the young lady looked up and asked, “Are you one of those romance authors?” And I got to say yes. And then I handed her one of my little excerpts. I was walking on air.
07/27/10
Rookie Author at the Big League Meeting
I firmly believe that baseball is a metaphor for life. I realize that many readers are not big baseball fans, so I’ll try hard not to use too many baseball metaphors here. But I just can’t resist this time.
I recently saw an interview with a hot, young pitcher who had just made it to the big leagues after toiling for a number of years in the minor leagues. The kid was kind of ga-ga eyed. Here he was sitting in front of a TV camera being asked by someone how the big leagues were different from the minor leagues, and he looked about twelve years old. The kid kind of nodded at the question and then, in an aw-shucks manner said, “Well, the club house is a lot nicer.” Read the rest of this entry »