Barb, what is RITA? I've never heard of it before.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Aug 07, 2008 7:06:51 am PDT #6881 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan walker - Aug 07, 2008 7:25:54 am PDT #6882 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
When I was in junior high, my mom signed us all up for an Agatha-Christie-Book-of-the-Month Club (black leather covers), until we got the whole set. It was very cool to go from the Nancy Drew club to Agatha Christie!
I have this set and I love it. It took over six years to get them all.
Aims - Aug 07, 2008 8:09:45 am PDT #6883 of 28385
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Not Barb, but a RITA is an award given to romance authors by the RWA. It's named after the first RWA president Rita Clay Estrada.
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I have no idea why I know this.
Amy - Aug 07, 2008 8:11:52 am PDT #6884 of 28385
Because books.
Heh. I was going to say, Aims. Points for useless trivia!
Aims - Aug 07, 2008 8:15:57 am PDT #6885 of 28385
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yes, but somewhere in my brain I have lost the name of my first dog.
Amy - Aug 07, 2008 8:18:39 am PDT #6886 of 28385
Because books.
::snerk::
DavidS - Aug 07, 2008 8:19:06 am PDT #6887 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yes, but somewhere in my brain I have lost the name of my first dog.
Was it Rita?
Aims - Aug 07, 2008 8:20:10 am PDT #6888 of 28385
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Could have been.
Scrappy - Aug 07, 2008 9:31:02 am PDT #6889 of 28385
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I also was way into all the Algonquin authors at 14-15. Parker, Thurber, Benchley, Ferber, Perelman, etc. I was convinced if I lived back then I would totally have fit in with that crowd. I was also obsessed with the Marx Brothers around then.
Barb - Aug 07, 2008 9:35:20 am PDT #6890 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Not Barb, but a RITA is an award given to romance authors by the RWA. It's named after the first RWA president Rita Clay Estrada.
Cute story-- I was reading one of the Nationals blog recaps and an unpubbed was working on her MS on the plane and noticed the older lady across the aisle from her was working on her computer, then a while later, reading a Desire. They happened to catch each other's eyes and the older lady asked the unpubbed if she was a writer and she said she was and was on her way home from National. Then she asked the older lady, noticing the book and remembering that she'd seen her working on her computer earlier in the flight, if she was also a writer.
Older lady leaned over, shook the unpubbed's hand and said, "Why yes I am-- I'm Rita Clay Estrada."
I've heard similar stories about people finding themselves sitting next to Nora in workshops and not having a clue because Nora will just be speaking to them like a normal person. One of the things I love best about National.