If you’re going to San Francisco …

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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?

5 Responses to “If you’re going to San Francisco …”

  1. Louise B says:

    What you’re not going?! Yesterday I gave my critique partner my Literacy signing shopping list and I had your name on it for another copy of Karma Girl! I thought I was the only one who had to stay home due to two college tuitions and a high school tuition (Catholic–all of which had their first payments due this week.

    I’m hoping for next year in DC. I’ve always wanted to take the family to Williamsburg and maybe I can co-ordinate RWA with my son’s Navy ROTC training at Norfolk.

    Well, I hope you get lots of writing done.

    Louise B

  2. Jennifer Estep says:

    I was orginally planning on going, but it was going to be so expensive … and my boss wanted the week off for her vacation … and some other things cropped up … so I decided not to go this year. Mea culpa.

    But I should definitely be in D.C. next year. I want to go to the International Spy Museum myself. And I’ll probably be at RT in Orlando as well, although I’m not 100 percent sure about that yet.

    But I do have autographed bookplates available. Send me an e-mail if you want some of those. And I’m going to do a contest in September for Jinx and give away a ton of books. So stay tuned! 😎

  3. Susan Helene Gottfried says:

    RWA won’t let me in, so I’m home, of course.

    I figure my reader might be quiet, so between now and leaving for vacation, I’m going to write more and hopefully look for markets for a short story I wrote for something that didn’t pan out. Now it needs a new home, a better one than my blog.

  4. Jody W. says:

    I’m getting #1 ready to start first grade this week by, uh, letting her watch a lot of TV while I finish writing a book? Yeah.

  5. Jennifer Estep says:

    Susan — It’s good that you’re going to write and are getting ready to submit your story. Working always seems to make the time go by faster, at least for me.

    Jody — They’re going back to school already? Yikes. It seems like it gets earlier and earlier every year.

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