So the annual Romance Writers of America conference kicks off Wednesday in San Fran. I’m not going this year, mainly because of the cost. The conference fee was something like $425 this year, the hotel would have been over $1,000 for four nights, and I shudder to think what the plane tickets would have cost. Gulp! It was just too rich for my blood this year.

I wish I was going, though. RWA Nationals is always a lot of fun. Book signings, workshops, face time with your editor and agent, publisher parties … there’s something going on all the time. It’s exhausting, but fun. Plus, there are lots of opportunities to get free books. 😎

But basically, most agents, editors, and authors will be incommunicado this week as they make the trek to San Fran. However, some folks will be blogging during the conference so us poor slobs stuck at home can read all about it.

Ah, well. Hopefully, I can get some work done on Assassin 2 in the meantime. Besides, next year the conference is in Washington, D.C., a place I’ve always wanted to visit. And the next year, 2010, it’s in Nashville, which is even closer to me. Yee-haw!

What about you? Are you going to San Fran? Staying home like me? If so, how are you passing the time this week?

Wheezley sent me this new game today. It is mindless, but totally addictive. Enjoy! 😎

Apropo of nothing, yesterday one of the ladies in my yoga class told me that I look exactly like Dorothea Tanning, an author who wrote a book called Birthday that her book club is reading.

Um, okay.

I had never heard of Tanning before, so I googled her. Turns out she’s a pretty cool lady — a painter, writer, and more. I don’t really think that I look like her, though, but it’s a nice compliment. 😎

I was also told once that I look like a young Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Um, okay.

I don’t see that resemblance either. But again, it’s a nice compliment.

So what I was wondering was this — who do people tell you that you look like (famous or otherwise)? Share in the comments.