Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Nora

So in the middle of the Nora Q and A, someone asked a question about Heather Locklear being cast in Angel’s Fall, and what she thought of that.

Nora answered what she’s said before - that she thought Locklear was a talented actor, and was very pleased by the way it came out.

The person asking the question replied, “Well, you’re wrong.”

That sound was my jaw hitting the floor.

Bitches in the Bar

There are Bitches in the bar. We’re very loud. Come on over!

Literacy Signing

The RWA literacy signing raised $56-plus Thousand Dollars.

The literacy council member accepting the check said, “We better keep working, because if this many people are writing books, we better make sure there are readers.”

$56 plus thousand dollars should help a lot. Way to go,y’all.

Pat Gaffney

After the Great Throng of Nora, I met Patricia Gaffney. I expect Candy will bruise me when I tell her.

Nora

Nora is hilarious in person, and is marvelously dry when she speaks about herself and her career. I don’t think there’s a question asked that hasn’t been asked before, but people are either riveted or standing in a hellicious line for lunch. I am telling you - people either stand in line for coffee (or food) or Nora Roberts.

Nora

Nora is giving her Q and A - it is tempting to go heckle her. Or at least go ask sixteen times what her favorite time period to write in is, and whether Eve is going to have a baby soon.

Suzanne Brockman

You know how some days you don’t brush and style the back of your hair? Poor Suzanne Brockman - there’s a camera crew filming the back of her head - if iit were me, I’d be thinking that I am totally screwed and no question the back of my hair looks like crap.

Lucky Suzanne’s hair looks perfect. Is that an author thing? Fabulous powers set to maximum? I gotta get me some of those powers.

Off to find my hairbrush.

Booksignings continue!

At the Ballantine NAL book signing, people are just walking around with empty big ass boxes to fill up with books. It’s like the wholesale club on a Saturday - the empty boxes are more valuable and sought after than the stuff you’re actually shopping for.

Cameo Smart Bitch

So if you check out romancenovel.tv and there’s some footage of folks asking directions, there is a Smart Bitch in the information booth giving Smart Ass directions. I don’t know if we’ll make it onto the video but it will be cool. To my right is fabulous writer Candice Vetter. No idea when the footage will be up, but hey cameo Smart Bitch.

good morning!

I am still firmly in Eastern time, so I pop up wide awake at 7am since I rarely sleep past 8 or 830 at home. The consolation: I am up in time for continental breakfast, which included donuts this morning. Woo!

However, I have noticed that a line will form for two things: coffee, and Nora Roberts. I hope this line is for coffee, although Candy and I had cocktails with Nora yesterday, and if the line is for Nora we’ll have a good time when we get there.

Nora coffee line

A little bit rackish….

...but somewhat less so than earlier. Only two pictures in which I show any sort of cleavage. Sorry to disappoint, sports fans. That said, so: more pictures coming your way, bitches!

We finally get to meet PC Cast. The squealing and glee were immense. Apparently, immense joy makes PC seem as if she’s hungry for Sarah’s spicy brains, while Sarah looks both overjoyed and terrified at the prospect of having her head gnawed on by PC.

Caridad Ferrer gave Sarah a pair of Smart Bitch glasses—complete with rhinestones! How awesome wicked cool is that?

Jane and Sybil together, looking grrreat.

Heather Osborn told us to look as racktacular as we could, so we tried. I love the goofy expression on my face in this one.

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Good night!

As the early rising Smart Bitch, as opposed to the up-till-4-am Smart Bitch, I am now heading to bed. Another day of conference madness comes to an end, and the bar is STILL rocking. If I weren’t gestating, I’d attempt to still be down there.

But since I am, I’ll see you all bright and early tomorrow morning.

And don’t worry - Candy has plenty more pics of her Rack Attack to share.

Cleavage

Candy is now dedicated to making sure that her cleavage is a prominent part of all pictures, and the RWA proceedings in general.

Bar Hopping

There are still 3000 romance authors in the bar, but a batallion of bartenders. Our bartender says of the attendees: “There’s a whole lot of drinking, but there’s a whooooole lot of Diet Coke and water, too.”

Pictures

Alesia Holliday dyed her hair blue to support her newest novel. Candy, who has a swath of purple hair, thought this was fantabulous. I did, too.

Angela James, Samhain Publishing. “Business as usual,” she says. The red eye is the flash, not her magic powers. She hasn’t used those yet, except for the ones that guarantee that she looks professional and fabulous all the time. Those powers are on max.

This picture doesn’t show it, but Gena Showalter also has her powers of looking fabulous set to Max all the time as well. It’s dreadful, I tell you.

This is the line to get into the signing where people were looking fabulous. The line was probably 200 to 300 people long. It was insane.

Marjorie Liu, with Candy, activating Powers of Looking Fabulous, Asian Plug-In.

Gena Showalter, Candy, and PC Cast, again, Powers of Fabulous. PC Cast was rocking a serious number of PRISM winning pins, plus they both signed until they ran out of books.

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