I love these girls. Especially Cockanna!! (inside joke) These girls sure had a good time making fun of my maritime accent. I kept thinking, what accent? Lisa (the gorgeous on in the middle back row) is the one with the Texas accent. Ya'all, ya'all. Yes, I picked that up!

I did my first book signing ever. Do I look happy? I had that smile on for days. Actually, I'm still smiling. It was especially trilling when a reader came up to me looking for my book. Wow, I'll never get used to that for sure.

I met lots of editors, had breakfast at the Ritz Carlton with the Avon Red authors and Avon editors, Lucia Macro and Esi Sogah. They are both fantastic. I went to the Avon Family Dinner. Susan Elizabeth Phillips stopped by my table to say hello. Not to me directly but still...wow!

I went to the keynote luncheons and listened to Meg Cabot and Christina Dodd speak. They were both funny and inspirational. I took in a few workshops, caught the spotlight on Tor, Warner, and Avon. Avon has something special happening on August 23rd. (my daughter's birthday). Check it out. www.avonfanlit.com

I had lunch at the aquarium with the Passionate Ink members. Yes, sometimes the conference felt like a big food fest. Back to the gym for me.

My presentation on Pillow talk, along with my Ellora's Cave Editor Heather Osborn and fellow Allure authors, Sylvia Day and Delilah Devlin went really well. It was a lot of fun and I had drinks and dinner (yup, more food) with Heather afterwards. I LOVE her. She is so smart, very easy to talk to and so sweet! I also met Raelene Gorlinsky. She is wonderful and wears really cool hats so everyone will recognize her.

I chatted with Adam Nevill, erotica editor of Black Lace. He is such a nice man (very sexy accent!) I really enjoyed talking about the industry with him.

Today is also the GRAND OPENING OF MOONGLADE ELITE AUTHORS. I'm so thrilled to be a part of this group. Tonight all the authors are going to be doing a chat and there will be lots of prizes. Please stop by to say hello. Chat starts at 8 eastern. Check us out here.

www.moongladeeliteauthors.com

We have so much going on. We even have a Book-A-Day-Give-Away During our Month-Long Grand Opening Celebrations. Yay

Well I think that is all for now. I'm off to work on my newsletter, The Fox Factor. If you're not a member but would like to be, hop on over to my homepage and sign up! I'd love to see you there.

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