All right. Let’s talk about the fun stuff — the con­ven­tion itself. I’ve been to the annual RWA con­fer­ence a cou­ple times now, but this was my first RT. Every­body says the two events are com­pletely different.

They’re right.

RWA is def­i­nitely more business-oriented than RT, which is more about fans and fun. But at their core, both events cel­e­brate books, readers, authors, and great sto­ries, which makes them pretty awe­some to me. :bubbles:

The first day, Wednes­day, after check­ing in, reg­is­ter­ing, and all that fun stuff, I was going down to the bar to meet some of the Fangs, Fur, and Fey folks (of which I’m a mem­ber). But I got to the bar and saw Justin Knupp of Stonecreek Media Inc. instead.

Justin is the cre­ative genius who designed my Web site (and dozens of oth­ers for var­i­ous authors). He was hav­ing din­ner with Sharon Long aka Maya Banks, so I sat with them, and we talked about the con­ven­tion and books and the pub­lish­ing busi­ness for a cou­ple of hours. We also waxed poetic about all the authors and books we enjoy. There was much love given to Jim Butcher and Patri­cia Briggs, among other fan­tasy folks. Good times.

BTW, Maya’s books sound really inter­est­ing — sexy South­ern con­tem­po­raries. I’ll have to put her on my to-be-read list.

After that, it was get­ting late and I was tired, so I went upstairs to get ready for my Thurs­day pre­sen­ta­tion. Day One was in the books.

Up next: More RT stuff.