I love attending conferences, meeting new people, getting in touch with old friends/acquaintances.  However the best part is the traveling part whether I’m driving or the passenger I simply enjoy it.  This week I’ll be heading out to the New England Conference where I’ll be staying with Hannah Howell for a few days and meeting up with tons of fellow writers.  Since I already have an agent and publisher I won’t be setting up any pitching appointments.  I did the first year I attended and hated it.  I didn’t like pitching and did a poor job. I didn’t get a request from the editor and also realized that I’d prefer an editor or agent evaluate me on my writing instead of how I can pitch the story to him/her.  I know there are tons of authors who have sold by pitching but it simply isn’t for me.

Do you have a pitching story to share?

Well it looks like all three actors who play the main characters from Harry Potter are returning for the last two movies. Who wouldn’t for $2 million for a few months of work at the tender age of 16, 17 or 18?  I don’t think I made $10,000 by the time I was 18.  I mean babysitting and sales just don’t the same as acting.  I know they have to put in a lot of hours but come on millions for mere months worth of work?  No one is worth that.

What were your part-time jobs during your teens?

I can’t believe I missed the best part of UGLY BETTY yesterday. I missed the last 15 or so minutes.  The last thing I saw was Marc telling his mother he’s gay and her telling him she wants nothing to do with him.  Did they patch things up?  Did Betty’s family help him or did he simply run away from them? Will he blame Betty for coming clean when he didn’t want to in the first place?

So many questions and no answers.  If any of you watched the whole show last night PLEASSSSE let me know what happened.

 

I just finished an amazing book and it made me think.  Cam the hero in HOMETOWN CINDERELA is the perfect hero in my opinion.  Now I know a lot of you won’t agree with me and that’s fine, but let me tell you why I think he’s the perfect hero.  He’s not perfect.  Cam is hot looking and has a great bod but he has doubts about himself.  Why would that impaction make him perfect?  It makes him so because to me he’s an ordinary man that I can relate to.  I hate heroes that are good looking, confident and have not a care in the world.  I’m sorry but I haven’t met that kind of person in real life. Everyone has problems.

So my question to you dear readers of romance, what do you consider a true hero to be?

 

No I don’t mean me.  The Rideau Canal officially closed about a week or two ago. So no more skating outdoors for me this year. What I mean is the World Figure Skating Championship started this week.  I love watching those athletes skate.  Some of them make it look so easy, then you try it and realize how hard it truly is.

It’s also bittersweet, because the world’s means the skating season is coming to a close.  I used to watch every single skating event while Brian Orser and Kurt Browning competed on an amateur level, but once they turned pro the appeal wasn’t as strong.  As you can guess I’m a HUGE Kurt Browning fan.

Who am I cheering on this year at the Worlds?  Dube and Davidson.  They are our national pair champs and suffered a bad cut four weeks ago. While doing side by side camel spins Davidson’s blade cut his partner’s cheek open.  However they are all better and kicking butt.  I can’t wait to watch all the events.