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Riffing on Romance
Fall out of bed (there was nothing going on in it anyway) and join THE funniest romance writers in the business. Hooking up your heroine and hero does not have to be serious business and these authors will explain the “why and how” of riffing on the pits and pratfalls of love.
Hunting Snarks and Whimsies
It’s a romance jungle out there. Wake up early and join our safari. Stake out the writers who know how to get the joke, skip the mean ones, and serve up the giggles to readers who can’t put their books down and end up reading in broom closets at the office
You don't want to miss this. Well. Renee Bernard has to miss it because she is hosting an Erotica panel next door which we will probably have to crash at some point. And Ann Vremont will probably miss it because she is a squid and hates conventions. But the rest of you? If I'm buying the donuts and breakfast snacks, you'd better show up.
My one regret in life? I wish I’d started writing sooner.
Award-winning author Sandy Blair has slept in castles, dined with peerage, floated down Venetian canals, explored the great pyramids, lost her husband in an Egyptian ruin (she still denies being the one lost,) and fallen (gracefully) off a cruise ship.
Winner of Romance Writers of America’s © Golden Heart and a National Readers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance, the 2005 Write Touch Readers Award for Best Historical, the 2006 Golden Quill and Barclay awards for Best Anthology, nominated for a 2005 RITA and recipient of Romantic Times BOOKReview’s 4 ½ star Top Pick and K.I.S.S. ratings, Sandy loves writing about Scotland’s past.
Her fourth novel, A HIGHLANDER FOR CHRISTMAS will released October 2, 2007. Sandy resides in Plano, Texas with her tall Scot husband and neurotic cock-a-poo, Coco.
... born in a small town in the Midwest, grew up with a dream, Miss Congeniality in high school (hard to believe, isn't it?), blah-blah. Got married, had kids. You'd think moving all over as a kid (seven schools in twelve years) would have gotten it out of my system, but I managed to fall in love with a guy who lived half a country away, so we went out to Boston for a bit, and finally settled in Minnesota, land of ten thousand mosquitoes. (That's a joke. There's actually way, way, way more than ten thousand.) Started writing when I was thirteen, sold my first book when I was twenty-nine. Made the best-seller list when I was thirty-four. Learned how to make gravy without lumps. It was a wonderful decade.
Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of seven novels of suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. She's also written two non-fiction books, Adapting Your Novel for Film and Made-up Mayhem. Her latest novel, Out of Time is an action-adventure romance set in World War II. Originally from Wyoming, she and her family moved from New Orleans to Texas before Katrina.
Click here for info about Kathy.
When Mary Stella was a young girl, she walked on the beach in one day and held a shell to my ear. Instead of the ocean, she heard a voice proclaim, “You should write a book someday.” Her first story involved a family of chickens visiting the city, hardly Pulitzer-worthy, but it inspired her to give up her previous career aspirations of riding the High-Diving horse on Steel Pier in Atlantic City or becoming a roller derby queen. Years have passed since that fateful day, and she's worked as a radio copywriter, public relations account executive, journalist and media specialist. In the mid-1990s, she experienced a sparkling ‘aha’ moment and realized that the book she wanted to write wasn’t going to spring in perfect manuscript pages from her brain. If ‘someday’ was going to come, she'd better get cracking. After some failed attempts and several learning experiences, she combined her love of romance novels and love of dolphins and wrote All Keyed Up, her debut release from Medallion Press. She followed that with Key of Sea proving that an ex-trophy wife can rediscover love with a younger man and also successfully battle land crabs.
RT's Mr. Romance for 1996
Info is elusive but you can read an interview with Lori Pepio by clicking here. I can only say I seen him on stage and he is one amazingly funny guy.
