Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Question for HQN: would you consider making the bags a gift w/ purchase? I’d buy a bunch of books from your web site (vs. from other retail sources) for the opportunity to have one of those totes.

spamword: feel55. Why yes, I do feel 55 today, even though I’m about 20 yrs shy of 55.

Yes, please :)

No chance I would go but sure do like the bag. Thanksfor the great prizes

leaving comment, crossing fingers

I was born in Tennessee, so it seems like a chance to take a trip back home next year :)

WANT.

Experiencing RWA vicariously via Twitter was great fun. Can’t wait for next year.

I would lvoe a chance to win one.

I want a bag!

This was the first conference I ever attended VIA Twitter and it was ultra cool. We got instant updates but alas, no goody bags. Now Smart Bitches comes through with Goody Bags too!  Thanks so much - for the conference tweets and the chance to win. Smart Bitches rock!

Those bags are awesome!  Toss my name in the ring, please.  ~  Carrie

gimmie!

Pick me, pick me!

I live on the other side of the freaking world (New Zealand) and I keep buying those lotto tickets, but alas, some other bugger—I mean, lucky winner bet me to it. I’m ever hopeful I’ll get to an RWA conference though. I’d so love to meet my editor and blog-mates in person—not to mention your most awesome selves! *waves her copy of Bosoms & wonders why someone hasn’t invented “virtual booksigning” yet.

And just to make you feel even more sorry for me, I have the flu. Again. (Bloody husband!)

Sniffle,

Maree

I didn’t get to go but would love to one day. It probably won’t be next year but hopefully in a couple of years.

love that style! hope I get one to flaunt around town.

I collect tote bags, particularly those with reading or book references.  I would kiss your feet for one.  Even after a marathon. (Okay, maybe I’d wear one of those mouth masks in that case.)

Will I come to RWA next year?  Probably not.  I have one big trip a year to pay for and that is the annual NCIS Fan Fest out in L.A.  There is no way I can give up the possible, although remote, chance of seeing Mark Harmon or Michael Weatherly, not even for a convention filled with book goodness.

How strange, my code is foot82.  And I didn’t even see that before writing the first paragraph.

I would like to try to get one of those big cool bags….

I don’t think I’m even eligible to attend RWA, but whoo, boy howdy, I’d LOVE to win one of those awesomesauce bags. Plus, my husband gave me a copy of Beyond Heaving Bosoms this weekend—now I know he’s a keeper… ;)

Catchpa: given44. As in, could I be given 44 extra chances to win?

Well, what can I say,except truly, truly jealous .In the UK we get the geek fests (quite fun actually) But romance, ..Not so much as a hint of a torn corset, or the sniff of an Alpha’s armpit ! In fact the last conference I went to was all about anaesthetics…What a gas .!!!!!!!!
  Now, please send me one of those luscious bags, or I’ll send one of the barking anaesthatists, I spent 2 hours listening to over there.(And trust me….I’ll never get those 2 hours back again )

This is one awesome contest, thanks bunches.

If you pick me, I’ll be very happy.

Apparently I am not the only person who really wants one of these bags.

Awesome bags!  I can’t wait to go to Nashville next year for my very first RWA conference.

I might win a bag—the comments weren’t closed.

Teh bag, I must have one.  What would I be willing to do to get it?  I could send my 18-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son to get it for me—like I was forced to do to get mine own signed Beyond Heaving Bosoms.  Yes, I sent them to a hotel room filled with women and beer.  My daughter’s comment?  “Like a room full of YOU.”  Son’s comment?  “Ize about to toss back a couple of beers with the ladies, kay?”

Bag?  Plz?

Plotting my way to Nashville

Oh, oh, please count me in too. My birthday is in a couple of weeks - and it would be so lovely to get a cool prezzie like one of these bags. Thanks for offering them up.

Oh, hot dog those bags look delish!  would love to go to the conference, but it’s just not doable time-wise.  :-(

Ohh I loved that bag,sadly since I only went to the signing I did NOT get a bag, so please please please pick me!!!!

My favorite part? The whole freaking thing!!!

hugs,
WendyK

I would love to have a bag like this.  I’m thinking about a visit to Nashville. . . .

Awesome bags-count me in!

I doubt I will ever make it to a conference unfortunatly.  Harlequin really needs to start selling their stuff.  If that bag and all the goodies were for sell, I would be first in line.

I won’t be able to go to Nashville, and am still kicking myself for missing out when it was in Dallas.  Grr.  In for one, please!

Way cool! Yes, please.

Unfortunately I didn’t make it this year and next year is looking unlikely too. :-(

I’d love a bag though because my romance obsession started with Vintage Harlequins.

Yay! We Aussies need teh Romance too! Want. Plskthxbai

...I think my 1st comment didn’t post, so here’s take 2:
Yay! We Aussies need Teh Romance here too! Want. plzkthxbai

yes, please. I want one!

thanks, those are great bags!

Since I missed out on this year hopefully I can go next year

I would love one of the bags.  Wish I could have made it to the book signing.

I didn’t make it this year, but if I can get ahold of some horse tranquilizers and a cocktail… or two to help get me on the plane (embarrassing fear of flying) I’d love to be there next year.
Thanks for the chance to win one of those fabulous bags!

Oh I am sorry I missed all the fun of RWA but these bags are a little bit of magic awesomeness and clearly full of win.  I’ll definitely throw my name in the hat.

OMG that bag is enough to make me squeeeeeeee!!!!  Gotta have one.  Pick me, pick me!! :)

Another Aussie here putting her hand up high!  Those bags are gorgeous, and I’d love to know what was in em.  Love to make it to RWA one day, have to save up my pennies.  Or write a bestseller…

Ooh, I’d love one, too!

I didn’t go and see no chance of attending next year. But a bag would be a cool compensation for the RWA blues.

Ok I will try this again as the first one didn’t post. I would love a bag as I didn’t go and dont’ see a way to go next year so a book bag would almost be as good.

I would totally come to Nashville but it’s a bit hard to get there from Europe. STill would love a bag though!

I’d love to get one of those bags!

Sorry, I don’t mean to spam theses comments, but my first comment doesn’t seem to have been saved…anyway, I’d love to get one of the bags!

Please add me to the drawing (or random integer pick). Thanks!

Reading everyone’s blog entries about it makes me wish I had gone. I would love to go next year, but I’m not sure that’s feasible. Who knows ....

That is so cool that others have thrown in their bags to offer your readers too.  Kudos!

i’m so there next year!

do you have to work in the industry in order to attend or can anyone go? those bags are awesome!

what’s the next big romance conference coming up?
count me in for the bag grab!

I only get to go to Library conferences but never have attended an RWA conference. I’d love to have a bag.

I would love one of those bags. I am also looking into joining RWA and thinking about trying to go to the confrence next year. I also want to go to RT next year.

Couldn’t go this year because of finances. Not sure I’ll be able to afford it next year either but hope springs eternal!

SOMEDAY DAMN IT, I WILL GET THERE!!! (Grin)

I really appreciate all of the bloggers who gave us stay at homes updates, so we had some idea of what was going on.

And thanks for offering the bags, they do look cool.

Kelly B.

I loved the reports from RWA and I hope to get to one of the conventions someday.  cool bags! thanks for the chance to have a little piece of romance.

Goody bag that has real goodies in it.  I am so on that!

That is a Bitchin’ Bag. The Desire for a Good Bag is overwhelming. I must Thrust My Comment into this contest. Oh yes.

I’m officially down on my knees begging.  Pick a lonely canuck.

I’m willing to go to Nashville next year if they have bags like this.

I’m going to Lora Leigh’s RAW in September (hope it’s a good loot bag), so if I can find West Virginia, I’m sure I could find Nashville.

It’s cold up here, winters are long, I need books….

I’d love one!!

Could not make it this year…hoping i can go to next years.

Count me in!  The bags look great.  I don’t have plans to attend the conference next year, but I did attend the literacy signing last year in San Francisco, my hometown.  I had a great time.

Bitches…I’m all about winning one of the fabulous bags:)

I live in VA (near DC) but the thought of 500 authors in one place was more than I could cope with at one time;)

followed the twitter, wished I couda been there

I won’t be going to any conference in the near future. I can’t justify the costs, and nothing is even remotely close to my neck of the woods. 

I am however drooling over all the fantastic pictures….

A big bag of books?  My wet dream! ;-)  Thanks for the contest!

I wasn’t able to go to RWA this year…finances :(

But if the academic calendar allows, I’d love to go next year!!!

I would LOVE to go someday but right now I have to get updates from you guys and others. I would love one of the bags and Harlequin should sell them. Please enter me =)

Those bags = WIN!

I wish I could go to a conference, but money’s not on my side.  Sigh.  Maybe next year.

I wish I had the money (and the transportation, hah) to get to conventions like this! Hundreds of authors, it sounds so magnificent. Those bags are excellent!

I wish is was in the plans to go!  I would love the change to go to any of the romance conventions… but, probably not anytime soon.

Please put my name in for the drawing too.

I wanted SO much to be at the signing this year, but alas I was financially embarrassed as usual. Sigh.

Diane :o)

I would totally buy those bags if they were for sale. Count me in on the drawing.

As just a reader, I can’t really justify the cost to go to a conference, but I enjoy reading the recaps and twitter feeds. I do wish it would come to Boston so I could at least go to the signing. I was able to get to NYC for one a few years ago and it was the highlight of my NYC trip.

I was at RWA 2009 for the first time EVER. My favorite part was how NICE everyone was—from rock star level authors to newbies like me! It was amazing!! And YES I will be in Nashville, hell or high water! I’m still high on the amazing event!

My only regret: I didn’t get to see each and every person I wanted to meet in person, including you guys. :(

I haven’t been to one of the conferences.  I would love to go one day.

ODE to RWA National by Eve Savage

Oh to head to Washington
For all the tricks and treats
For all the books and authors
For penis-shaped candy sweets

This year I wasn’t able to
My sorrow hardly lags
But I could be much happier
If I win one of the bags

I am heartbroken after discovering today that the new workplace firewall bans the Bitches…  What’s with that?  A new bag would help with the sadness and the withdrawl symptoms.

Oh to go to Washinton
For all the tricks and treats
For tons of books and authors
For penis-shaped candy sweets
This year I could not go
My sorrow hardly lags
But I could be much happier
Were I to win one of the bags

So sorry for the double post.
Eve

It would be neat to have that bag! I’d love for you to count me in for any of your souvenirs Thanks for thinking of us who couldn’t go!

I want one! I want one!

Sadly, I am a poor starving student and will probably not be able to afford to attend RWA conference for many years yet to come. :( But one of these nice totes would tide me over til that day. ;P *hopeful face*

Those bags are tres cool! I bet they carried some awesome books too. I would have loved to go. It must be fun to dress like tinkerbell or an elf.

It would be neat to have that bag! I’d love for you to count me in for any of your souvenirs Thanks for thinking of us who couldn’t go!

PS I’ve been trying to post for a while and it keeps saying ‘we are unable to take more posts at this time .. so maybe there a limit to posts here ? I’m giving it a try again :)

I would love to be going to Nashville next year. Unfortunately it is a very long flight and very expensive from Oz!

I would love to go into the draw!

My goodness this is a popular potential gift.  Please put me on the list as a possible happy person whose name might be drawn.
Thank you.

RWA looks like so much fun! Sadly, I did not go, but maybe next year….

Awesome! Count me in please.

Those bags look amazing *wipes away drool* Put my name in the hat!

I’d love to attend a conference (plus, I’ve never been to TN), but I can’t say for sure until closer to the date!

I really want to win!  I’m the best at being random!

Maybe if I had one of those bags, I could stop sadly trolling Facebook and Twitter for conference pics… I was so bummed not to be there! Here’s hoping I can make Nashville next year!

I have to admit, the bag was one of the best conference bags ever. I loved the Harlequin calendar, but the bag takes the cake. The title of the featured book always manages to give me the giggles. “You Never Know With Women” LMAO!

If I happen to win, the bag will be given to my sister. I caught her eying it yesterday when I was unloading all my swag.

Arianna

I’m not going to Nashville next year, but I really, really, really wish I could.  The bags look thrilling.

I have been hearing how awesome the bags were and I want one real bad!
Missed DC this year but hope to go to Nashville next year.

I have not yet made a RWA, but Nashville is looking good.

Man I’d love to go to something like that, but they never have them close to me and since I haven’t travel funds…*le sigh* Someday it’ll be near me.

Those bags are truly fabulous. I wish I’d gone!

Well I can’t say that I wouldn’t love to win one. !! Please put my in with the 100’s of fans clamouring for the goodies from the bitches….

I would love one of those bags. They look awesome

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to go (darn summer sessions *shakes fist*), but I lived very vicariously through all the lovely people who Twittered or blogged about it.  :)

Thanks for doing this!

Hmn… I posted something an hour or two ago, but don’t see it. Please forgive if the other shows up.

Please put me in for the drawing.  I wanted to be at the signing soooooo bad, but was financially embarrassed. Sigh.

Diane :o)

Ooh!  I’d love a bag!  The vintage art looks amazing!

Bags? Gimme! I totally need a new bag. I only have something like 10 ... million. And absolutely none of them match my romance novels which is just plain sad. How’s a girl supposed to go anywhere when she can’t match her bag to her books?

Oooh I want! Those bags look fab!

Oh, yessss, we wants it, yes we do, my preciousssss…

Since I live in Murfreesboro, going to the Nashville Conference is a definite possibility.

I’d love one of the bags, they look fabulous.  Nothing like flashing some HEA to the techies in my neighborhood (uh, house).

- Lara

I’d love one!  Perhaps my chances of winning one are better than my chances of winning tickets to ComicCon at this late date….

If I should defy the odds and win one of these bags I will take it to work (med student in the neuro ICU right now) and use its magical powers to stun people out of their comas.  I will.

I actually live in Washington DC but was (am) in California for work over summer—otherwise, I’d have been around the RWA hotel (and I live right nearby too!) stalking (umm…following/admiring) authors and bloggers.  Next year, I may not be in the USA and so too poor to go to RWA. Twitter will be my friend so thanks to all those who updated this year—‘twas great to read the updates :)

Those are the coolest looking bags.  I’d love one.

I didn’t go to RWA, I’ve never gone and it’s probably going to be a while before I can go, too. Damn school.

I’m in the same boat, and it makes me sad.  But an awesomesauce vintage-stylin’ bag would help to console me!

I was not able to go to the conference but came as the public during the literacy signing (as it was the first signing I’ve been to, I must say it was a cosmic event in my life).  So since I was there, I have seen the bags and had already gotten sooo jealous!  I would love one!

I covet the bag even more than the books!

I love old title pics.

Glad you had fun! Wish I could have been there too!

Toss my name into the hat, I want some of that swag!

I’ve only been to one conference and it was in north Jersey about 2 years ago. I met Sherrilyn Kenyon and Julia Quinn and tons of other fabulous women. If traveling to Nashville next year means cool bags FILLED with books - I. Am. So. There.

But a bag this year would make me all warm and fuzzy on the inside…

I seem addicted to tote bags..sign me up…or pull me out…whichever

Sam

I have a bag thing and a book thing a bag made from book cover art would make one of the happiest people in the world

Those bags are, as my teens would say, AWESOMENESS!! Would love to win one-  thanks for being so generous and sharing with us!

Bags of goodness! Conferences are beyond my abilities (being unable to teleport myself across the world) but I can dream…

Looks like a great bag. I’ll take one.

I did not attend RWA this year, and alas, I won’t be able to attend in Nashville next year. It is too far away from me here in Seattle, WA.

However in Seattle - I did see Candy Tan, when she appeared at Third Place Book Store for an author reading. It was very nice to see her in person.

Slinking in late, but those bags are too intriguing to resist a chance. Reminds me of the Anne Taintor stuff.

Oooh, when I read about the bags on DA, I didn’t know they’d look so cool. Harlequin should totally sell them.

Those bags are great! I’m joining the chorus of people wishing Harlequin sold them.

I was unable to go due to the lack of funds.  But I would love one of those bags.  :)

Wow those bags are so cool. I wish I could go one day but being in Australia, the likelihood is slim to none. Sigh.

I live in Northern Canada, like, the sub-arctic, so I don’t suspect I’ll be attending any conventions in the southern states anytime soon.

However, I sure would love one of those bags to tote all of my stuff to school in! (I’m a student teacher, high school English, and I sure do lug around a lot of photocopying and binders and kids’ assignments and stuff!) A kitschy-chic bag that shows off my love of romance novels would be perfect~

Those bags look awesome. 

Please consider me another vote for Harlequin selling them, should the powers that be be reading this thread!

Good call with giving out the books. I’d probably for some library though but I guess it’s all the same thing.