Blog interrupted… Again. As a working mother feel I am full of excuses anyway, and for my recent radio-silence, I choose to blame it on the recent RWA Conference (nicely introduced last week by Joanne Rendell for The Huffington Post. Past WaxBlog Conference-related posts include this perspective of mine, and this accounting of Abi’s).
Of course, people go to conferences all the time and manage to keep up. I, however, am not one of those wonder women. I am blog-challenged under “normal” circumstances. “Conference,” as those of us who go year after year pithily call it, is a complete derailer. Woe to the romance author on deadline in July, your editor knows where you are.
In DC this year, in what has been called the most over-air-conditioned hotel in the United States, I greatly enjoyed meeting with both new clients and long-established ones. I did not stop talking (and listening) for four straight days. In an industry driven by email, these face-to-face meetings are invaluable. Authors meeting with me, with their agents, with their editors… It’s all about touching base. (And for me, it’s also about distributing thousands of sample Autographed by the Author stickers… but I digress.)
I was back on Pacific Time by Saturday night — a 12-hour country-crossing marathon to get home in time to tuck my preschooler into bed. And then began my debriefing and catching up. Blogging? There is far too much else going on. Instead I will take this space to congratulate Waxcreative’s own Pam Rosenthal, who won the RITA for her exquisite The Edge of Impropriety. Well done.
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Last year was so much fun (and so much work, as well)! I wish I could have been there this year but, alas, two little growing babies needed me here. I’ve been debriefed by Emily, however, and am ready for all the projects she’s now given me!
Thanks so much, Emily.
I think I may be still-and-forever stuck in the moment just before they announced the winner of my category. Thinking, “OK. In a second it’ll all be over. And I can put away this silly piece of paper with my list of whom-to-thanks. I’ll smile. Applaud the winner. Go to bed early, and get back to my life and my w.i.p. And… Oh. My. God.”
Abi, a belated mazel tov. Looking forward to pushing the Wordpress envelope with you. But it’ll wait until you’re ready.
Pam, we are all so happy for you. And proud to be part of your team!
I’m ready, Pam. Bring it on! (and thank you — mazel tov right back at you!)