{"id":1729,"date":"2012-04-17T19:51:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2012-04-17T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T02:01:03","slug":"recapping-rt-booklovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Recapping RT Booklovers & C2E2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another RT Booklovers convention is in the books (so to speak), and I am home from Chicago again.<\/p>\n

The verdict? Such a great con<\/em>. Exhausting, but amazing. \u00a0It was a great opportunity to meet readers and writers (including Charlaine Harris and Jeaniene Frost), vent about the writing biz, and be inspired by others.<\/p>\n

Here are a few snapshots from my four-day spell in Chicago:<\/p>\n

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The conference hotel — The Hyatt Regency. It was, by far, the largest hotel I’ve ever been in. Much concrete, with a large central tower that held four elevators. I’m fairly certain it will be used to house and contain humans when the zombie apocalypse comes.<\/p>\n

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My stack of books, bookmarks and pens, and my trusty Cadogan seal stamp, ready for signing at the Saturday Book Fair. There were soooo many people (readers and authors) there.<\/p>\n

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I got books signed by JR Ward, Kasey McKenzie, Jaye Wells, Suzanne McLeod, Veronica Wolf, and Charlaine Harris.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the panel and book fair at RT, Charlaine Harris, Christina Henry, and a bunch of other authors headed over to C2E2 (Chicago’s ComicCon) to speak about urban fantasy and paranormal romance heroines.<\/p>\n

We had a pretty good crowd for the panel (and that’s only 2\/3 of the room):<\/p>\n

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For every awesome conference featuring lots of awesome chicks (and some dudes!), there must be cake.<\/p>\n

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Next year’s RT Booklovers is scheduled to occur May 1-5, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri. I’m definitely planning to attend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another RT Booklovers convention is in the books (so to speak), and I am home from Chicago again. The verdict? Such a great con. Exhausting, but amazing. \u00a0It was a great opportunity to meet readers and writers (including Charlaine Harris and Jeaniene Frost), vent about the writing biz, and be inspired by others. Here are[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}