Tuesday, December 9, 2008
09 December 2008, Tuesday
As everyone may or may not know (Where have you all been?), the wonderful Eloisa James is my all time most loved author. She is the one author who I feel has pure talent and personality, and she is my only auto-buy author. On a side note: did you know that today I went out to purchase her newest book; When The Duke Returns, and they did not have it in stock?!?! I was flabbergasted and it was a true show of my control that I did not kill the lot of them right then and there! Though I was sorely tempted to.
This year the magnificent Eloisa James is the luncheon speaker for RWA's national conference at Washington DC 2009: Strength Knowledge Power. I was determined to go last year. But that never happened. I insisted to go this year, but I know that can't happen - I need to graduate this year! So it's Nashville next year for me, or the next in New York - which will be the last straw!
Since I'm nearly 99.99% sure that I won't be going to the RWA conference due to my graduation, I have decided to go to RWAustralia National conference in Brisbane 2009: Hot August Nights. Mary Jo Putney will be our conference speaker. I will have to organize my time so that it does not interfere with my studies since it's in the middle of my second semester. But at least this conference will be go-able.
I'm feeling much better now that I've accepted that I won't be going to Washington DC and that I've decided to go to Brisbane instead. I don't consider going to Brisbane a consolation prize. Rather, another challenging step. I'm going to have to work my ass off to at least complete one manuscript. First for critique and then for pitching at the conference - only for some experience, nothing too serious... well, maybe a little serious about it.
Talking of manuscripts and critiques and so forth, Literary Agent Nathan Bransford is once again hosting a fantabulous first paragraph contest over at his blog. Come over and enjoy the competition. Great prizes to be won including partial critiques, query critiques or a 15 minute phone conversation with the man himself - for those who are in the dark: Nathan Bransford. This Contest ends on Thursday/11 at 4pm exactly. I'm dying to enter in something, but I've got nothing!
It is too bad he doesn't represent romance or I would run to him straight off. He is my dream agent. If I ever complete a manuscript and finish revising it, I will still send a query to him just so I know at least I did try. I know, very silly of me since I well know he does not represent my genre.
Well, better get back to my manuscript and stop procrastinating!
Happy writing everyone!
