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How I didn't meet JR Ward

I've fallen behind with blogging lately. But there is a lot going on.  Gigi is slowly getting ready to meet Grandpa in heaven, our weekends have been filled with friends' birthday parties, and I was gone two Saturdays in a row.  I feel like I've fallen behind on housework, and I know I am super behind at work.

But in my teeny-tiny bit of free time, I've been reading! At the RT Convention last month, I signed up for a FAN-tastic day pass.  To be honest, the entire goal of going was to meet JR Ward.  However, what they didn't mention on the website was that the big-name authors - Ward, Rice, Harris, etc. gave out 200 wristbands only. And if you were a conventioneer, you got an early access to the book fair.  Which I was not. So there was no wristband for Sarah. And no meeting JR Ward. (Sniff, sniff.)

However, I did get to meet a lot of other great authors! Darynda Jones, Jeaniene Frost, Lauren Willig (Pink Carnation series), Angela Knight (Mageverse series), and Yasmine Galernon (Otherworld series).  And have two books signed:

  
There were also workshops in the afternoon that I was able to attend.  It was a lot of fun playing Who wants to be a Duchess, while learning about the regency period, having screwdrivers with MaryJanice Davidson and sneaking into the Jane Austen Happy Hour, and attending a Romance Readers Town Meeting.. I prefer paranormal books over regular romance novels, but listening to some authors made me add new books to my TBR list.

After the workshops, there was a Fan-tastic Day Party, where they gave away free books!!! Lots of them!!!
 
So to recap, this was as close as I got to my favorite author:


But, in happier news, I walked away with all of this:


A bracelet with BONES on one side and I LIKE IT ROUGH on the other..
Ahhh, I love Cat and Bones


Including the new novel by Anne Rice!!!

Comments

Unknown said…
Dang! Look at those goodies!
Miss Megan said…
You hit the mother load! Look at that pile of books! Hope you had a great time, even though you didn't get in early enough to get one of 200 wristbands =).
tolleyrose said…
Holy cow! How did you carry all that?!

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