A certain pub of the vowel variety was seen approaching one of their former authors, now a big double-diamond star in her own right for another publishing house. Despite proclamations that said author was persona non grata at their house since she departed, the pub rep present at RT was begging said author for a few books – e-rights only, no need to worry about that printy type business. Things must be rotten in Denmark for begging to supercede earlier vilification.
Meanwhile, a number of authors from one ePub had a marvelous time at the party of another ePub, even though in previous years, the first had drawn virtual barbed wire fences around their authors to prevent fraternizing (or sororitizing?) with the other group. And yet, when the grown ups got to socialize, a good time was had by all.
However, a good time was not had by every single attendee. From the RT Police blotter, a three-times-the-drama tale of a very pitiable cover model. Seems one of the Misters Romance had a history of instability, and his behavior caused a very big stir most of the weekend. First, he scored the room key card of an RT staffer, admitted himself to her room and waited for her return so he could serenade her. He was removed from the premesis soon after – but wait, there’s more. Said contestant returned, and was forcibly removed a second time, this time, according to witnesses, on a gurney.
And then it got interesting.
In the meantime, this contestant’s roommate was understandably horrified by the events so far, and related to other conference organizers how very scary the man’s behavior had been in the room, to the point where the roommate didn’t wish to sleep there. The organizers took pity on the fearful Mr. Romance and moved his room immediately. Meanwhile, the unfortunate model twice removed made his forced departure a hat trick of drama, as he returned to go after his former roomie, and was once again escorted from the premesis by Pittsburgh’s finest.
And there’s more from the police blotter? But of course. And the item, it is not so blind.
Multiple sources have relayed information about a showdown of Barnes/Ewing proportions – perhaps even Hatfield/McCoy levels.
Seems the daughter of one Carpathian author lost her digital camera. Luckily- or unluckily – the lady’s camera was found—by the daughter of another entourage-escorted author. The daughter took it upon herself in Reckless fashion to take pictures of her lovely lady lumps. And by ‘lumps’ I mean her most intimate of selves. No Other Woman would mistake the glory of that lion, or beaver, as the case may be.
When the Carpathian daughter discovered the images upon the return of her camera, she had words with the photographer’s mother, who apparently assured her that her daughter would be spoken to.
However, the caution and conciliatory words concerning the c-pics did not reach the entourage of the Princess of Fire. A few of them, heavily influenced by the Spirit of the Season, headed for a showdown on the dance floor the final night of RT, and had words with the Carpathian daughter, nearly, according to one source, coming to blows about the whole event, telling the owner of those now-very-interesting pictures to mind her own business.
Later, the rumble relocated to a different part of the hotel, and conflicting reports indicate that Pittsburgh’s finest were once again dispatched to placate the angry. The Carpathian mother was seen in tears over the debacle, and many a conference attendee was choosing sides. Perhaps one will wear blue, another will wear grey, and we’ll answer the burning question as to how well one’s bikini wax holds up during close photographic encounters. Regardless, I am hoping Orlando’s finest are not called to the hotel next year for any reason. Drama is one thing, but requiring the attendance of law enforcement is not necessary.
EDITED 4/22 – but wait, there’s still more!
More than one person has emailed me privately to say, “Not so fast, Bitch!” To which I say, “Say what now?” Never let it be said that Bitches don’t listen.
Seems many conflicting report has arisen regarding who took what photos and of what specifically. One source says that everyone involved needed anatomy lessons and not of the Grey’s variety, as the photo in question was a hairy underarm, and not at all one belonging to a woman (though if you don’t want to shave beneath your armpits, who am I to judge?) Another source says that the daughters of either party weren’t involved at all, and the entire showdown on the dance floor was an elaborate choreographed jam session of some sort… and you know, given the amount of production that went into the dinner and luncheon theatre spectacles, I would almost buy that and pay retail.
And a very friendly source who was so excited that a lush and handsome Mr. P. showed how to work her new digital camera told me that first hand, as her own eyes have witnessed, the daughter of the Princess of Fire did no such fanny-snapping, and that the pictures, according to Ms. Princess herself, were most definitely of an armpit, taken right in front of the friendly source, who emailed me immediately to say, “See how armpits can be larger than they appear?”
Indeed.
For those of you who’d like to catch some of the fun that went on at RT and see lots of pics and vids, check out these blogs.
MURDERATI
http://murderati.typepad.com/murderati/2008/04/romantic-times.html
Gennita Low’s A Low Profile
http://rooferauthor.blogspot.com/
Barbara Vey’s Publishers Weekly blog
http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288.html
Even Redheads Get the Blues
http://blue-succubus.livejournal.com/127063.html
The Rebels of Romance
http://www.rebelsofromance.com/
Judi’s Journey Through American Title III and Beyond
http://judifennell.wordpress.com/
NakedAuthors.com
http://www.nakedauthors.com/2008/04/romantic-times-weekend.html
Chey
Darlene: April 22-26 according to what I found online.
And Shiloh: you are not the only person adversely affected by the construction dust and air quality. One friend of mine went to the hospital for nebulizer treatments after the Hilton air sent her into breathing problems.
April 22 to 26, 2009
Wyndham Orlando Resort
The 22nd is my dh’s birthday (which happens to be today, too.) Maybe I’ll take him & the boys to Orlando and they can play while I play!
The details of the camera story are incorrect. No one’s daughter took any pictures of herself. I can only hope this story won’t be embellished and repeated any more than it has been – it’s extremely distressing to see something completely false and defamatory spread about a teenage girl. Just imagine for a moment if someone were smearing your daughter, or sister, or friend – or you – on the Internet.
I love gossip as much as anyone, but this is just wrong. As women, we should be defending young women, not tearing them down with false rumors.
You realize that a camera commercial is playing right now, featuring Ashton Kuchter’s “lost” digital camera, where the party girls steal it and photo hijinks ensue?
Speaking of cover models, Liz and I just posted the last day of the Romantic Times convention video blog…including much video footage of the Mr. Romances in question. So take a look, if you’re so inclined…
After all, still photos can’t capture the true…um, spirit?…of this event. 🙂
Darn, won’t let me embed in comments. You can find it here:
http://www.rebelsofromance.com
Opps, Marrianne broke the new, Purdy SBTB site…
I is at work…
… breaking ur blog
And sb sarah sez: I is on blackberry, fixin mah blog.
Just an FYI—I was heartbroken to be told by a gal at RD that the alleged vajayjay was actually a—errr—reconstructed???—armpit of one of the models and that the incident was supposed to be a joke. Now I want my man-unit to lay really still while I experiment. He’s having none of it.
Also… I do freelance semi-pro (lol) photography. A $2000 camera isn’t so shocking, but as a sling along at an event like this? It’s possible, but I think somebody is being silly with the price inflation here.
If she DID pay that much I need to chat with her about spending irresponsibly.
Okay, this is actually a fetish I discovered while perusing the Victorian erotic biography My Secret Life. He (the author) is very into armpits, which is, actually quite disgusting.
ARMPITS?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
VW: must99 Must NOT at all!
I bet that the financial planning conference I’m going to next week won’t be nearly as interesting. Unfortunately.
Suzy Orman’s armpit just can’t hold up, m’fraid.
Did I get anywhere close to spelling her name correctly? I’d google her but she freaks me out and I don’ wanna’.
My mind boggles thinking of how the Mouse security squad will deal with this sort of action …
They’d probably smile and say…
“Have a Magical Day!”
*sigh*
I’m an ex-mouse. LOL
Sigh. From vajaydentities to arm pit collages. I’m disappointed but more relieved that the girl didn’t misinterpret that South Park Paris Hilton episode. Although, I have to say you play around with making that kind of dirty joke you should expect the worst and not get all self-righteous about sisterhood admires your artistic skills. 😛
Jenyfer Mathews
Do you see Crusie? It’s all you, baby. I would buy a million copies if you wrote this into one of your books. (Details changed to protect the err…innocent of course.)
I have a WIP about an RT type convention on the back burner. Maybe it is time to resurrect it given all these great ideas. Except no one would ever believe any of it. I am glad to see that the original story wasn’t quite true even though the girls behavior was pretty silly.
My daughter was at the convention shooting video for a couple projects she has in mind. She also got footage of me doing stuff, and then would go fetch the occasional vodka on the rocks for me.
That’s what a well-mannered minion should do. I will invite her back.
I just wonder what we would have to talk about if Ms. Carpathian had not been accosted on the dance floor? I didn’t even know photos were involved until they started yelling at Ms. Carpathian about them. Sometimes we damage ourselves more than anyone else ever could.
Regardless, if they were upset that Ms. Carpathian didn’t like those kind of pictures on her camera they should have deleted them. And if you don’t want it talked about, try having your confrontations in private instead of in the middle of a party where others can hear you.
Just popping in to say thanks for the Orlando RT dates. I may have a family conflict that weekend, otherwise I’ll plan to be there.
:Wisely nods:
Janet/Cricket, you’re absolutely right. We couldn’t make this shit up.
Darlene Marshall, dayum, woman, how’ve you been? Long time, no hear. Unless you’re a different Darlene Marshall than the one who was once published at DU/LTDBooks, in which case please ignore me. But if that’s the case, I see from your website that you both wrote kick-ass books called Pirate’s Price. That’s simply too much of a coincidence!
VW: century53 Only off by 47!
Yes, Liddy, same Darlene. Dang, DU was so long ago that I still have copies of my first ebook, issued on floppy diskettes!
Thanks for the shout out, and it’s good to see your pixels again!
I read this yesterday and couldn’t stop giggling.
In fact, I still can’t.
spamfoiler: about46—hell, not yet!
RT was made of awesome. I can’t WAIT till next year. This was my first, but it won’t be my last. Muahahaha.
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