ARRC09 Day 1 Morning LIVEBLOG

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• 12:57 AM: BookThingo Wandergurl and I are liveblogging ARRC09 via Twitter, cross-posted to the blog. Morning sessions include welcome, keynote speech, panel discussion on romance fiction in academia, and concurrent sessions: paranormal, erotica, Aussie voice.
• 8:53 AM: BookThingo where is my liveblog? *sob*
• 8:57 AM: girlwithabolo got up, registered, went to maccas for takeaway brekkie & went back to bed! Hahaha #arrc
• 8:58 AM: girlwithabolo alive. Awake. Gone to buy coffee
• 9:41 AM: girlwithabolo at the academic romance lecture v interesting!
• 9:42 AM: girlwithabolo they are flashing pics of romance novels fr the 60s w titles like nurse in a cage & 4 girls and a doctor, hahaha eyeloveit
• 10:10 AM: BookThingo I’m finally here!
• 10:14 AM: BookThingo #arrc academic panel. Mainstream lit criticism would help romance image.
• 10:16 AM: BookThingo #arrc Courier Mail dropped romance reviewer. She set up a blog www.romancereaders.com
• 10:21 AM: BookThingo #arrc Covers don’t help image. Neither do dodgy titles. But it’s all marketing. Heavily researched by HQN. Bride title w/ no wedding!
• 10:33 AM: BookThingo #arrc an author said it’s all marketing. She has books with bride in title but no weddings!
• 10:35 AM: BookThingo #arrc it was stephanie laurens!
• 10:38 AM: BookThingo #arrc Cristina Lee HQN marketing: the titles sell. They have excellent marketing research.
• 11:04 AM: girlwithabolo at the paranormal romance panel i only know one author but what theheck
• 11:08 AM: BookThingo #arrc kat at Aussie voice panel. Only around 25 people here
• 11:14 AM: BookThingo #arrc editors changing less Aussie references. Most queries are about slang
• 11:19 AM: BookThingo #arrc Words that cause confusion: couch, doona, lounge room, fairy floss, ute, footy
• 11:19 AM: girlwithabolo paranormal panel v funny!
• 11:20 AM: BookThingo #arrc Moved from outback to more urban setting
• 11:22 AM: girlwithabolo mary janice davidson has a point! U still have to be realistic when u put paranormal characters in real life, u need to follow ur own rules
• 11:23 AM: girlwithabolo i think thats y paranormals are appealing partly bec u show them dealing w ordinary situations
• 11:29 AM: BookThingo #arrc Lots of anecdotes on what gets edited. “She’s so anal,” doesn’t translate well!
• 11:32 AM: girlwithabolo sara mackenzie is so soft spoken, i like keri arthur but her books have a love triangle so i can’t read it.
• 11:36 AM: girlwithabolo most of the questions arent on paranormals but on how they write instead. Its entertaining but i want to hear more paranormal stuff
• 11:45 AM: girlwithabolo i didnt know what a milkbar was either! Except for the dodgy milkbar on parramatta road
• 11:47 AM: BookThingo #arrc very difficult to sell Aussie books to America especially single title
• 12:02 PM: BookThingo #arrc I won a door prize. A gazillion books!
• 1:08 PM: girlwithabolo is it just me or do authors tend to look similar?