I’d like to give a big thank you to all of the great folks who attended our workshop at RWA National Conference last week: “Creating a Web Presence in Just One Hour”!  Here is a link to our presentation in PDF format.
Don’t forget - drop me a note on my Contact page or contact Michelle [...]

I have exciting news to share! Michelle McGinnis and I were accepted to speak at the RWA National Conference in Washington, DC this summer! Our presentation will be “Creating a Web Presence in One Hour.” We’ll choose one audience member and help them build a website during the workshop using Wordpress.com. That will give us [...]

This week I had one of those wonderful moments where it was clear WHY I love being a member of the Romance Writers of America. On Tuesday night at our Austin chapter meeting I was telling my friend Julia about the details of the editor appointment I had at the National Conference. Julia told me [...]

I’m so proud and impressed! Diane Farr attended our “Creating a Web Presence” workshop at the RWA National Conference and then went right home and built herself a site using Wordpress.com. Hooray!! I’m so glad that Michelle and I were able to be Wordpress evangelists!
If anyone else from our workshop has built a site, please [...]

I’m happy to report that I believe my editor pitch went well! She had several ideas for pumping up my plot and I’m more than happy to incorporate them and send her a new synopsis. No names posted yet about which editor or publishing house… but hopefully in the future I’ll be able to post [...]

Michelle and I presented our workshop today at 2 PM at the RWA National Conference and I feel like it went well. I only wish we could have had another 30 minutes! There were so many tidbits we didn’t get time to share, darnit! We had great audience questions and that made me happy. I [...]

Our speaker at today’s RWA Conference luncheon was Victoria Alexander and she was hilarious! If you ever get the chance to hear her speak, go for it! Last night I was on the elevator with both Ms. Alexander and Ms. Stephanie Laurens and I was too tongue-tied to speak to them. Now I’m kicking myself [...]

What a great experience I had today at the Leadership Retreat! I learned a lot and it sparked a ton of great ideas for new things to do in our Austin chapter. I met some wonderful women and we traded good ideas and advice, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Hooray for Sharon [...]

I arrived in San Francisco this afternoon and I’m counting the hours till the conference begins! I’ll be at the registration table nice and early on Wednesday morning before the Leadership Retreat begins at 9 AM. That makes it about 36 hours till the festivities begin - hooray!
In the meantime, my daughter and I will [...]