For the last two years I have been privilaged to host the Drink Diva’s event at the Emerald City Writers Conference. If there is one thing we writers excel at, it’s drinking and socializing. Even the most reserved author lets loose if given the right incentive and this year we danced the night away at the Lucky Strike.
Playing hostess was one of my many duties at this year’s conference, including being the assistant workshop chair, participating in three workshops and acting as a conference docent to those needing information on anything pertaining to the week’s events. I met so many wonderful people, and worked up the nerve to talk to best selling authors, agents and editors without stuttering or saying a bad word. All in all, I was very proud of how I not only expanded my comfort zone, but I completely remodled it like I had a high-priced budget.
What was my favorite parts of the weekend? Ohhhh…let me name a few.
- Whatching Jacquie Rogers get carded and stamped by the bouncer at Lucky Strike.
- Spending lots of quality time with Ellora’s Cave editor Carrie Jackson. (I know all of their secrets now. Well, not really, but I know more than before.)
- Getting two requests for fulls of my Squadron Series
- Receiving my first sale certificate
- Announcing this year’s PRO recipents
- Sitting between Cherry Adair AND Victoria Alexander during the bookfair. (A bit of advice- Do not shout at a NYT best selling author to not read your book in front of you. Cherry, you can read my work anytime.)
- Having attendee after attendee come up to me during the weekend to say how great my workshop was.
- Cocktail hours with the ladies of the Evergreen chapter.
- Cheering loudly when Celeste Deveney, Christine Solberg and Jenn De Cuir won their catagories in the ECO contest. Proved that you can be on a committee and still write.
- Meeting so many new writers and sharing the energy of a fantastic weekend!!
Work on the 2013 conference begins this weekend. I know!!! Can’t wait to see what we do next.
Hope to see you all there.
