Update (sort of)

I know, I've been a bad blogger. I meant to have posts from RT, but the highspeed wireless was as highspeed as molasses flowing uphill in January (in a raging blizzard). And then after the long-ass drive home, I got thrown back into the hustle and bustle of the dayjob, and still don't feel up to snuff. But I won't whine about that here (although I have been whining about it in person), I will say that due to the evening thunder storms this is the first time in three days that I've been able to post. So I thought I'd tell you all about my trip. This is kind of long, but not as long as it could have been, I think I took about a quarter of the pictures I took last year. Also, if I owe you pictures, I will try to get them out to you as soon as I can.

RT was a blast. The drive was long but not so bad, I got to see my sister, which is always fun, and then I got to see people. Some were people I had met last year: Sasha White, Lauren Dane and Megan Hart, Anya Bast, Beth Williamson, Jeanne Stein, and Richelle Mead. Others I met for the first time this year: Cynthia Eden, Stella Price, Angie Fox, Anna Evans, Jenna Black, and Christine D'Abo (although I've been reading her blog for a while now). And of course I got to see Jo Carol, Kate, and the rest of the awesome RT staff again, without needing them to save my bacon as they did last year. Which is always good.

The panels were good, and informative, and just plain fun. The first day I went to to of the bookseller programs and learned a lot, but except for a couple of events for the booksellers, I mostly went to writer panels. The first one I went to was on writing Demons, with Stella Price, Larissa Ione, Jenna Black, Jacquelyn Frank, and Bianca D'Arc.

This was Larissa's first RT, and her first panel. It went well, despite her penchant for one word answers, and several people said they thought it was the best panel they'd seen. The cool thing was I got to hang out with pretty much the entire panel at one time or another during RT. I even sat with Bianca during the Vampire Ball.

The next panel was humor in paranormals, but the pictures didn't come out well, so I'm not going to try and post them here. The panel included Dakota Cassidy, Mario Acevedo, Michele Bardsley, Judi McCoy, and Mark Henry.

I then went to a vampire panel, with Patrice Michelle as moderator, and Caridad Piniero, Angela Knight, L.A. Banks, Jeanne C. Stein, Vivi Anna, and Kerrilyn Sparks.
I'm including this one because you can't see Vivi in the other.

L.A. Banks in the vampire panel.

These pictures were taken while in line to go into the Fairy Ball

Wings!

More Wings!

Shoes!

Ann Aguirre and Cynthia Eden at the book signing

Jeanne C. Stein

Lorelai James

Michele Bardsley

Sasha White

Christine D'Abo

Lauren Dane

Cynthia Eden

Mario Acevedo

Ash aka A.D. Roland aka Adra Steia

Mechele Armstrong

Shayla Black

Jenna Black

Anya Bast

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Dakota Cassidy

Cash Cole

Cynthia Eden

Annaliese Evans

Angie Fox

Kayleigh Jamison and Myla Jackson

Cat Johnson and Stephanie Julian

Stacia Kane

Isabo Kelly

and her side-kick

Judi McCoy

Stacey Kade

Robin Rotham

Michelle Rowen

Jeri Smith-Ready

Jeanne C. Stein

Beth Williamson

The Bags of Swag

The mountain of books that came home with me.