ARRC09 Day 2 Afternoon LIVEBLOG

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• 7:57 AM: BookThingo Wandergurl and I are liveblogging ARRC09 via Twitter, cross-posted to the blog. Afternoon sessions include book signing, author speed-dating, panel discussions on series romance, crossing genres, and romance with attitude, keynote speech by Sherrilyn Kenyon, group farewell, and close.
• 12:16 PM: BookThingo #arrc Lined up for book signing. 15 mins before start and it’s already up to the end of the corridor.
• 12:22 PM: BookThingo #arrc People standing up. Might be starting soon.
• 12:23 PM: BookThingo #arrc Didn’t tweet gala dinner but I won the Reader Challenge. Quite unexpected
• 12:26 PM: BookThingo #arrc Acheron by @sherrilynkenyon won best paranormal rom. Sofia from Galaxy wore stockings. Much Kenyon love.
• 12:26 PM: BookThingo #arrc Stephanie Laurens won best Australian romance author
• 12:27 PM: BookThingo #arrc Melanie Milburne won best category romance
• 12:28 PM: BookThingo #arrc Untouched by Anna Campbell won best historical romance
• 12:33 PM: BookThingo #arrc Still waiting. Started reading Tempt the Devil.
• 12:34 PM: BookThingo #arrc Thoughts on cover: Pneumonia. And is the hero wearing a chastity belt?!?
• 1:28 PM: BookThingo #arrc Scored sooo many free HQNs. Anna Campbell is so much fun. Have author crush.
• 1:30 PM: BookThingo #arrc Goodies room has run out of snazzy rulers and door signs
• 1:31 PM: BookThingo #arrc Smart Bitches and Stephanie Laurens getting lots of bids in silent auction
• 1:33 PM: BookThingo #arrc So are JR Ward and Nalini Singh and @sherrilynkenyon
• 1:56 PM: BookThingo #arrc So are Laurel Hamilton and Kerri Arthur. Low battery.
• 1:57 PM: BookThingo #arrc Attending series romance panel
• 2:04 PM: BookThingo #arrc This will be a raucous session, I can tell
• 2:06 PM: BookThingo #arrc Paula Roe labelled a contest slut!
• 2:08 PM: BookThingo #arrc Readers buy series because they know what they’re getting
• 2:10 PM: BookThingo #arrc No formula, just attached reader expectation
• 2:11 PM: girlwithabolo am at writers w an attitude & the ladies next to me think im bored! Im live blogging!
• 2:13 PM: girlwithabolo mjd is telling us about how its hard for her to be symphatetic to people that whine about lousy childhoods,she had one & she laughed thru it
• 2:15 PM: girlwithabolo eating junk for lunch as pressed for time having fun tho
• 2:16 PM: BookThingo #arrc Writing from male POV lets authors push boundaries bec con justify hero’s actions better
• 2:18 PM: girlwithabolo @bookthingo no formula! Bull
• 2:18 PM: girlwithabolo talking abt secondary characters now. Including kids and animals
• 2:20 PM: BookThingo #arrc Not passive. Reader interacts with text
• 2:21 PM: BookThingo #arrc Women shouldn’t be devalued for reading hobby. Just part of balanced diet.
• 2:22 PM: girlwithabolo jane tara’s best line: i write to escape my kids!ally blair:i was hoping some1 else had a diff opinion than me!
• 2:24 PM: girlwithabolo issues with kids reading adult books. Mjd gets a lot of them
• 2:26 PM: BookThingo #arrc Demographics: 1% male, 45-65, would like younger market, need to target channels for youthful readers
• 2:27 PM: girlwithabolo @bookthingo oooh we’re underage! Hee hee
• 2:30 PM: BookThingo #arrc Heroines getting stronger and independent, ethnic variety, changes reflert popular culture
• 2:34 PM: BookThingo #arrc Some lines don’t work in all geographies so it just depends
• 2:34 PM: girlwithabolo talking about screenplays now, about how it helps u write/practice writing dialogue
• 2:36 PM: BookThingo #arrc Harlequin launching YA line in July
• 2:39 PM: BookThingo #arrc About 12 archetypal themes used.
• 2:44 PM: girlwithabolo mjd is talking about free shoes fr beverley feldman. Who is that? I should know her.
• 2:48 PM: BookThingo #arrc Editors get lots of reader feedback. Short female with talk guy, logistics just aren’t right!
• 2:52 PM: girlwithabolo authors talking about having no control over everything after writing the book
• 2:54 PM: girlwithabolo question on whether sex scenes are based on real life. mjd’s husband said, b careful when u answer!
• 2:55 PM: girlwithabolo amy andrews husband read one of her books and said, well do u want to do this hahahahaha
• 3:08 PM: BookThingo #arrc Was too engrossed to tweet. Very good panel, that.
• 3:34 PM: girlwithabolo at the sherrilyn kenyon & dianna love talk
• 3:36 PM: BookThingo #arrc Q&A with Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love
• 3:39 PM: BookThingo #arrc World will end when Kenyon sets foot in Salem
• 3:41 PM: BookThingo #arrc A fan once dropped her pants in front of Kenyon, resulting in pants dropping mexican wave
• 3:43 PM: girlwithabolo #aarc
• 3:44 PM: girlwithabolo #aarc bookthingo here cos i ran out of batteries
• 3:47 PM: girlwithabolo brendanovak.com evry may sherrilyn, dianna and others donate for diabetes
• 3:48 PM: girlwithabolo who’s the league! Allison we need u, help!
• 4:22 PM: girlwithabolo sherri’s family is very very funny and she calls them rednecks, bogan they are!
• 4:23 PM: girlwithabolo re zarek “my hero is from the shit pitt”
• 4:24 PM: girlwithabolo of course i can only spell pit like brad pitt.