Day: August 8, 2014

Smart Advice from Smart People

#FollowFriday: #RWAus14

Romance Rocks, the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia Conference, is taking place in Sydney this weekend. Under better circumstances I would be down there, but the new mortgage put a pin in that plan earlier this year. This makes me sad. Last year, the RWA conference was the best event I attended as a writer, and this includes a year that was capped off with a trip to World Fantasy. Which means, this weekend, I’ll be tuning in to the official twitter hashtage of #RWAus14 to see what I can pick up. See, the RWA conference is a pretty phenomenal experience, and of all the writer out there, they romance folks are generally the crew that has their shit together when it comes to talking about writing and publishing. I killed a note-book at last year’s conference, filling it with notes covering everything from aspects of craft through to some fairly detailed publishers and agents advice that went way beyond the 101 conversations you’d