My First RNA Conference
Last weekend was my first Romantic Novelists Association conference, held this year in Telford. I travelled up from Wales with my good friend and fellow writer, Rachael Thomas http://www.rachaelthomas.co.uk and we were so busy chatting about dark desert heroes that we almost ended up in Ironbridge! Rachael got her long-deserved Call from Mills and Boon earlier this year and her first Harlequin Presents book A Deal Before The Alter is due out in October. The conference itself was full on and fab from start to finish. I learned a lot about my writing and about myself as an aspiring author. The sessions were informative, informal and fun, and just being with other writers - published and yet to be published - was like an infusion of energy and enthusiasm. The chance to have a one to one appointment with an editor or publisher is reason enough for joining the RNA 's new writers scheme but the camaraderie to be found among its members is a joy. Although a newbie, I