Friday, April 23, 2010

Kathleen Comes to Arizona

Last weekend I had a wonderful time at my local Romance Writers of America conference. My chapter always does a great job with the conference, but this year was a little more fun and exciting for me as my Harlequin American editor Kathleen Scheibling attended. It's always enjoyable for us authors to get to spend some quality time with our editors as well as a little social interacting :)

I picked her up at the airport on Friday (yes, I scrambled on Thursday to get the car washed). I was so paranoid about forgetting where I parked my car in the HUGE parking garage, I actually typed the info into my cell phone (two years ago when I picked up two editors at the airport, I DID forget where I parked and we wandered for 45 minutes ).

Saturday we sat together at lunch. That afternoon, we had our Harlequin panel workshop and it went well, I think. I did purchase a cd of the workshop as a souvenir!!

That's Kathleen on the far right, me next to her, Linda Style on my other side and Carrie Weaver on the far left. Both Linda and Carrie are Super Romance authors and members of my RWA chapter. That evening, we took Kathleen to the Westin Kierland Resort for dinner. I'd never been there before but I will definitely go back again one day. The place was gorgeous and the food amazingly good.

I ended the "editor intensive" weekend by having breakfast with Kathleen Sunday morning. And, yes, I did pitch a new series idea :)

This wasn't the first time I've met my editor, but it was certainly one of the best times I had with her. My only regret was that she didn't have an extra day to see the sights as she'd never been to Arizona before.

Cathy Mc

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Kathleen said...

I had a really good time. And that was one clean car! :-) Candy apple red -- my fave.

It was a great conference, and a real treat for me to meet a whole bunch of new people. Not to mention be out in the AZ sunshine! Fantastic.

Estella said...

Sounds like you all enjoyed the conference.

Pamela Stone said...

Sounds like a wonderful conference. Smaller conferences are so nice. More intimate. National is great too, but can be a little overwhelming.

linda s said...

The conference sounds awesome. I love conferences. There's always so much to learn and so many great people to meet.

Victoria Chancellor said...

Glad you had a great conference, Cathy. Nice photo, also. Spending time like that with your editor is priceless.