People! You need to help me decide!
The new site for RWA National was announced tonight: The Swan and Dolphin at Walt Disney Resorts.
::cue hysterical laughter::
Right, I move across the country and the conference finally winds up in Florida. In July.
Anyhow... I can go to National, as planned, and since it's now in Florida going early to Miami and leaving the kids with my mother. However, I'm not presenting a workshop, I'm not presenting at the awards, the book's not going to be out yet and I was really only going to get face time and network and talk up the new book. The other glitch in this is that if I take the kids, it's problematic, since they start camp on Monday, August 2nd, meaning I'd have to leave Nationals early in order to drive back to Miami and fly back to Seattle.
Or...
The Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is also having their conference at roughly the same time.
In LA. The kids can stay at home, I don't have to be away for as long, and it's a much shorter trip within the same time zone, even.
Plus, it's children's publishing professionals, so if I'm going to network and talk the book up anyway, maybe it makes more sense to do it there? (Also, meet some local booksellers, like from Vroman's, etc?)
Bonus, F2F time with LAistas.
LA makes more sense, doesn't it?
How did I not realize that that was a picture of brenda's sister? I am dim. And possibly blinded by the Glory of Sloth. It's a very cute picture.
Or I can just sauté it. That could be fun.
I feel like a bad daughter. I only send my mother a card.
We really just do cards in my family, too.
I feel like a bad daughter. I only send my mother a card.
Mine got a card with a lottery ticket inside.
Totally go to LA, Barb.
I may have a conference in Baltimore in September; unfortunately because of the yet-unfinalized reorganization (we are now into year three of this reorganization, people, in case you were keeping track), I don't know who to ask for permission to register. Because where I am will determine whose funds get spent on the trip.
Thing is, if I don't get to go I will be ROYALLY pissed; this conference is only held once every three years and I have a good chance of being on a panel. But I can't request to go yet, must wait until June, I'm told. Bah.
I bailed on visiting my parents tonight because I had a grumpy tummy so instead I'm watching WNTW and eating scrambled eggs.
ETA: Congratulations on the job Jesse!
I'm giving my mom me, since I'm going down to help them cull and pack before they move. If I don't disappear into the mess of their basement forever, I might take her out to breakfast, too.
