There's No Place Like Home--especially when you've brought back fun prizes to share!!!

My week off was AMAZING!!!!

RWA National's is always a great conference, and having it in my home town of Atlanta made this year even more special. I did lots of business (from my editor, I found out The Runaway Daughter was the top Superromance on the shelves in back in February ;O) and met up with tons of writing friends.

Three of my Wet Noodle Posse buds WON RITAS for their amazing books!!! Here's a pic of us celebrating after the ceremony.




More Noodler friends out to dinner one night.



And me and one of my best Noodler buds, RITA winner Dianna Love Snell, chatting between conference workshops.

The local papers did all kinds of articles on the conference (we had over 2500 authors and aspiring authors in town for the event), and I was spotlighted in both the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and the Gwinett Daily Post. I'll get the links up on my home page later today.

And there were so many great giveaways, you know I had you all in mind!!! Just like when I got back from RT, I'll be sharing the wealth from my RWA bounty ;O)

Once or twice a week, I'll be giving away the free books and promo items (and there were some great goodies), so keep checking back. I have to get pictures of everything, but I'll for sure have something out here to win tomorrow--all you'll have to do, as usual, is leave a comment, and you'll be in the running.

Tomorrow, let's start with fellow Superromance author Brenda Novak's August MIRA release (her first mainstream thriller) Dead Giveaway, and one of the very cool promo goodies she shared with conference attendees--scary little skeletons ;O). You won't want to miss out, so leave a comment for your chance to win.

All my launch party winners (and my last website prize winners)--your gifts went out priority mail yesterday, so let me know when you receive them. Sorry for the delay. FYI--I'll be mailing out the Borders gift certificates to their new owners today!!! Whew...think that catches me up with everything, so onward to more goodies to share ;O)

Thanks for the good wishes during my break. It's hands-down writing for me now through the end of the month and into September, so I'll be hanging out here every day looking for company and sharing fun stuff I find online while I avoid the work scattered all over my desk--not to mention the free books and other cool RWA goodies that have to go before my guest bedroom overflows into the hall.

Keep me company, and you might walk away with some cool stuff!! How's that for a bribe from a desperate author ;O)