{"id":87,"date":"2009-07-22T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-07-22T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T01:36:06","slug":"rwa-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/2009\/07\/22\/rwa-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"RWA in DC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-84\" title=\"terri-with-harlequin-sign-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/terri-with-harlequin-sign-2009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"terri-with-harlequin-sign-2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I had a great time at the RWA (Romance Writers of America)&#8217;s annual Conference last week in Washington DC. The weather cooperated&#8211;the usual mid-July heat and humidity was replaced by mid-80 degree days that were comfortable for walking about and eating at lovely sidewalk cafes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had the chance to sign at the Literacy Signing on Wednesday (which raised more than $60,000 in two hours!) and at the Harlequin signing for conference attendees.\u00a0 I got to meet readers and talk writing and to see old friends and to make a few new ones.<\/p>\n<p>And, I really enjoyed being an RWA RITA finalist for Best Romance Novella. It&#8217;s like being a princess at the ball for a week. Meeting Stephanie Laurens, who won the RITA in my category, was a big thrill for me, too. My inner romance reader was screaming in delight!<\/p>\n<p>So, now I&#8217;m home and trying to do a little R&amp;R before hunkering down on a new writing deadline&#8230;But, gosh, it was fun in DC!<\/p>\n<p>Terri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time at the RWA (Romance Writers of America)&#8217;s annual Conference last week in Washington DC. The weather cooperated&#8211;the usual mid-July heat and humidity was replaced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-ladys-private-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}