We at Smart Bitch Central have received reports of a Certain Author Behaving Very Badly at the Harlequin party during the latest RWA conference—and we’re talking “getting shitty-ass mcplastered, groping several people’s boobseses, and then having to be escorted from the room by a couple of people” bad behavior.
We don’t want to reveal details (oh lordy) until we can confirm this with more than one party. So: anyone else heard about this?
Damn you, SBs! You are really appealing to my base desire for cheap, scurrilous gossip!
Now I’m dying to know who it was. At least throw out some clues.
*blinks*
This would be the first I’ve heard of it, but I wasn’t actually at Nationals.
Even if it’s not true, the concept is still hilarious. :snake:
I hope it’s true. And if it is, then damnit, I seriously want to meet that author.
Okay, okay. I admit it. It was me and Jill Monroe. But we weren’t grabbing boobs…
I heard a similar story but haven’t been able to confirm. That said, the incident I heard about involved a lesser known author – so not sure how juicy the gossip is….
Who needs alcohol? That’s my normal behavior.
And really…I was just holding those drinks for other people.
My interest in this story rests primarily in the quality of the boob-grabbing. I mean, if she was just staggering around, more or less using them as handles to keep herself upright, I’m not too interested in that. Give me some real perversion and lechery, dammit!
Hell and damn! I knew I shouldn’t have left early! Haven’t heard this tasty bit – but I’ll keep my ear to the ground.
(I’m lying – it HAD to be Jill and Gena – oh, sure, they look like ‘nice’ girls from the midwest, but it’s a con, I tell you. In fact, I’m pretty sure they were sizing up MY boobs, but alas, I was short shrifted and nowhere near stalwart enough to pique their interest.)
I bet if you took your shrift off entirely you’d have got some looks.
*I bet if you took your shrift off entirely you’d have got some looks.*
After two babies? Not a chance. Ah, youth – it’s wasted on the young.
Stef, with a 4(koff*koff)th birthday coming Saturday…
Ahem. Please note the lack of gender-specific pronouns in my question.
That is all.
Ahem. Please note the lack of gender-specific pronouns in my question.
Hm…I’m not sure whether the ambiguity makes it more interesting or less.
Totally less, Ana, don’tcha think? A man staggering around, grabbing boobs is so *yawn* not interesting, or particularly surprising. But a woman – well, that’s quite titillating, isn’t it?
(hehe, I said titillating…)
Hee!
Y’know, Stef, I almost said that exact same thing, was even typing:
Man gets drunk, plays grab-ass (or grab tit)… nah, that’s not news, ask any cocktail waitress
I erased it and opted not to because I thought to myself, Self, you’re being a sexist bee-yotch talking like that, you’d be pissed if some man said that all women do is eat chocolate and talk on the phone, stereotpying is le eeeeeeee-vil
Then I ate some chocolate and called my best friend to bitch about some shit. 😀
I think I need to attend more parties that may result in the off chance of a drunken romance author staggering around groping her colleagues. I just don’t get that opportunity up here in Cheese Capital, Wisconsin. If cheese could be fermented for the purposes of getting sloshed, the dedicated students at UW-Madison would have discovered it by now.
oh boy!
The two authors who gave me full RWA reports went to that party. They didn’t mention the incident and now I have to email them AT ONCE to find out if either of them was involved.
Apparently, it happened in the wee hours of the morning. Let us know what you find out, Kate.
I think whoever did it (or maybe someone who didn’t) should step forward and admit it. This kind of wild-and-crazy event apparently is as good as a rotten review for boosting one’s career.
Ooh, didn’t see this before. Happy (early) birthday, Stef!
Ana, with a 3(koff*koff)th birthday coming in 12 days…
PS – lovelysalome, I’m going to make every effort to be at the next RWA convention, so I can help you out with an author grope, but I won’t be drunk when I do it.
Stef – I just talked with Gena Showalter, and we’d be honored to grab your boobseses at the next Harlequin party!!
*Ooh, didn’t see this before. Happy (early) birthday, Stef!*
Thanks, Ana – back atcha!
*Stef – I just talked with Gena Showalter, and we’d be honored to grab your boobseses at the next Harlequin party!!*
I’d be honored. Thank you. I’ll wear my special Vicky’s oil bra for the occasion. Just watch the jewelry, so’s you don’t poke a hole and make me start gushing a bubbling crude.
Stef, now thoroughly titillated
(hehe, I said titillated again…)
If the Smart Bitches attend the RWA Dallas conference, we promise to host a drunken boob-grabbing party. Who’s in?
SB Sarah—Now you’re really tempting me to attend.
Hmmm….I wonder if this incident involved a RWA member of the male persuasion? That opens up a whole new range of possibilities.
Who’s in?
Memememememememememememe, oooh, oooh, pick me, pick me!
And the peasants have to bring the mojitos.
I was at RWA. The details of this story are so close to what I personally witnessed that I think the only incorrect detail is that it was an author. I was at the HQN party for a bit and did not see that behavior (wait, I’ll get to it) but I returned to the hotel and went to the bar where a number of authors were gathered, as well as a male editor. An author friend was there, too. A bit later, an extremely well known agent arrived, and she was smashed out of her gourd. She looked at my busty friend, said, “boobies!” and then groped her. She was then all over the male editor. Her behavior was disgraceful.
Disgraceful doesn’t sound fun at all 🙁
I back up Aspy’s version. That’s all I’m saying.
*Disgraceful doesn’t sound fun at all :(*
Or titillating. Bummer that. Truthfully, as one who’s had my share of wrestling with alcohol, and alcohol winning, I feel very, very sorry for whomever this person is – and will now stop joking about it.
In other news, I am SO in for an SB party, drunken or otherwise. I guess, as a peasant, I’ll be forced to bring mojitos, even though I’ll be drinking Diet Coke – but I’ll share cigarettes out in the parking lot….
(yes, I admit it – I’m one of thoooose…)
It must be the editor at Virgin who was the gropee. Someone else said that he was “hot” and inspiring for hero material. Plus, I can’t help but wonder if he has a British accent. That’s all it takes for us American girls.
We need a pic of this guy. Like now. I don’t even care who else is involved in this salacious bit because stuff like this goes on at all RWAs. One that I attended included a female author making a fool of herself over a male guest too. Let’s see some proof of hotness, I say.
Bob Mayer.
What? What? Someone got all gropey over Bob Mayer? This story just keeps getting better and better! Thank goodness it’s not, like, all over the Internet or anythi…
Wait a minute…
Ooops.
Oh, and if the peasants are bringing the mojitos, I’ll be there.
Sincerely, Twitterpants.
It’s funny but Hello’s answer was the first name that popped into my head when I read this because Candy didn’t make it gender specific. Then I thought about how many male authors would be at the RWA and only 3 names hit me. Didn’t Nicolas Sparks join RWA and then the only other guy I know is from a writing team from years ago.
All the same, what would any of these guys be doing at an HQN party?
CindyS
it was not an author. it was not the harlequin party. it was at the hotel. it was a very well known agent. i was there at the bar in question and not only did i witness the VDA (very drunk agent) grasp at the boobage of a very nice writer but i also witnessed a VDW (very drunk writer) draping herself all over her editor to the point where he was practically running away from her. there was a blue feather boa involved as a prop by both the VDA and the VDW. the agent is still a great agent just a little on the toasted side that night but the writer should think twice about such action especially when trying to get new book contracts from mr. editor. and that’s all i’m saying
Wow! Post obliquely about one scandal, and another juicy item rears its head.
But “hello” is more on the track of the scandal I heard about.
I second the demand for pictures the OMGHOT editor.
Does anyone else like to call out “BOOB-SQUISH!” when giving a well-endowed friend a big hug? Not that I’d EVER do anything that dorky…. *whistles while looking at the sky*
I heard the same story In the Know is talking about. Someone who was there and witnessed the drunk agent and drunk writer. Embarassing for all involved.
geez, it’s not that bad. I mean no one actually threw up on anyone or exposed flesh or made everyone in the bar sing “Aude Lang Syne” over the phone to an exboyfriend in Brussels who was trying to get some sleep.
It sounds like an incident that could show up in Lucky Jim which I’d read to a child.
Why, back in My Day, it wasn’t a scandal unless someone actually slept with someone or perhaps got into a fight tbat resulted in scars or got arrested.
Pfah. Scandals these days.
I might as well be one of those elderly Georgian Ladies who always rails about milk-and-water misses of the Regency era.
Kate, not as old as all that but feeling older
Why, back in My Day, it wasn’t a scandal unless someone actually slept with someone or perhaps got into a fight tbat resulted in scars or got arrested.
Absolutely. Shoot, I get groped in WalMart all the time- because the aisles are always so crowded, not because I’m so gropeable.
Bob Mayer at the Harlequin Party with Jenny Crusie. Not “with” her, but as her writing partner. It’s like RWA Clue!