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?
Damnit. Why doesn’t anyone CALL me when boobs are being groped? I’m totally in the mood to be on the receiving end of a good, thorough groping. Damn, damn, damn.
Damn…just stumbled across this blog and post…where was I?? Was I in the wrong bar? Which bar are we talking about? I spent too many quality hours in bars at RWA to have missed something this good.
I wasn’t at RWA, but I write for Black Lace, so I assume the Virgin editor you’re all talking about is my editor, Adam Nevill.
And yes, he is v. nice! Tall, with a shaven head, very striking and very personable…
I have a small pic of him from a magazine, but it doesn’t do him justice. He’s much more handsome in the flesh.
Sounds like good material for a novel…especially if there ends up being a secret baby involved.
If it’s the story I heard, the editor was American, not British, and there was most definitely exposed flesh involved.
fifty bucks says the editor was Chris Kessler (sp?)
I will check with Adam to see if it was him! 🙂
I was there for some of the aforementioned VDA behavior. Really, what I saw wasn’t THAT bad – then again, anyone knows me knows I have pretty high standards for truly scandalous behavior. She was just drunk and silly. Professional, no, but hey, we all have to let our hair down sometime. I’m with Kate – it’s not truly a scandal unless there is public nudity or adultery involved.
Bingo to guessing game.
Not so much a scandal but poor judgment and bad behavior in public that gets people like us talking.
What is it with the men’s names being tossed around? That’s no fun! That’s the kind of office happenings that could accidentally wind up at any given corporate Christmas party. In an industry populated by some astronomical percentage of females, I was certain of much more hot lez action. I HAVE a man – if I go to nationals, it won’t be to have a flirt with a different one! Gimme tipsy girl-on-girl dancing, dammit!
Ok, I was the woman who got groped by a same sex agent (who shall remain nameless) at the bar in Atlanta (unless she was on a tear, groping everyone in sight?). How on earth did that story migrate here? My friends and I had a slightly horrified laugh about it at the bar (grateful that she’s wasn’t our agent) and I never heard another word about it.
And yes, my boobs are big, but when a woman you don’t know squeals “boobies†and then grabs a handful it’s a little disconcerting (but funny; I’m sick that way). It’s even funnier when she looks down, sees your first sale ribbon (hand still on boobs) and slurs, “Wha’cha sell?†Like she’s still somehow in business mode. LOL!
I didn’t see a drunk writer with a boa draped over poor Chris Keesler (or the publisher of Black Lace), but I did witness the same plastered agent who was so enamored of my “dirty pillows†clinging to Chris like a monkey in a banyan tree.
Ha! Chris Keesler got my sloppy seconds. *GIGGLE*
Yes, Tonda’s boobs are real, and they’re spectacular. And they were displayed quite magnificently that night, so I can’t really blame VDA for groping them.
I didn’t get to go this year.
But I’ll smoke with Stef outside next year. And attend any party the SB’s throw. 😉
And take pics of anything Gena and Jill are doing for possible blackmail later. hehehe
I’d love to go to an SB party. I’ll smoke outside with stef and jaci too. Oh, and I don’t know how to make mojitos but I can make a meeeaaaannn Lynchburg Lemonade.
Y’all make it sound so fun that it’s almost worth taking up smoking. 😉
I didn’t witness any groping in the bar, but I saw some obviously intoxicated women dancing together. A couple of guys who weren’t associated with the conference were snapping camera phone photos of them.
If the RWA conference is held in Vegas, will the slogan hold true or will there be Ted like postings of the goings on all over the internet?
It’d be awesome if we had a SmartBitches party. I wonder if there’d be a way to get some SBTB pins made up ahead of time for people to wear on their badges? That way, we’d be able to spot each other in elevators and around the conference.
I don’t think anything stays in Vegas either, Jane. 😉
And a Lynchburg Lemonade sounds really good!
Y’all make it sound so fun that it’s almost worth taking up smoking.
Give in to the peer pressure! lol j/k
Okay, I was in the bar and I did see VDA because she was dancing around singing Britney Spears and calling me a pussy for ordering a Green Apple Martini. I also saw VDW who was indeed draped all over said Editor, who apparently she hooked up with at a previous conference. At least that’s the rumor I heard. Sorry, I missed the hot British editor. Damn, I shouldn’t have skipped the workshop he was in to scarf free books.
Ooooooooooooo, a Smart Bitches Party. Can we have one in Dallas?
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.
Hehe.
Yup. That’s what I saw, too.
I second the opinion of Adam Neville being very hot—I was at the workshop on erotica where he spoke… and frankly, with that accent, he could have started reciting the alphabet or reading the white pages, and I wouldn’t have cared in the least.
Mmm…
Ahem. S’cuse me while I go douse myself with ice cubes, wouldya? *g*
Well, sheeet! I’m going to have to get myself to RWA one of these days. Sounds like a party to me.
I wasn’t even at the hotel when all of this went down (went out to dinner with friends) and the minute we walked into the hotel, we were bombarded with people saying we should go check out VDA grabbing breasts and VDW slobbering all over her editor and him trying to evade her. We all thought it was best to go to bed. Now I wish I had checked it out.
Jane said…
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.
Adam! He is a doll and very sweet, too. I wouldn’t mind him playing around in my fantasies. Maybe the agent in question was hoping to make some good erotica contacts for her clients, er somethin’.