Posted by Walt 07 31st, 2005
A short piece of interesting news for you.
(7/31/05 - HOUSTON) — A newborn baby was abandoned in the alley of a business. It’s a baby authorities may not have found alive if a teenager wasn’t doing his job.
Chris Patten walks with trash bags just about every day. But on this day, a trip [...]
Posted by Walt 07 31st, 2005
The end of the RWA Conference — the big awards.
True, there are other awards given at RWA, but none quite so prized as what is handed out on the Saturday night, the last night of the RWA Conference. The award ceremony is akin to the Oscars, where only other published authors have [...]
Posted by Walt 07 29th, 2005
The luncheons at the RWA Conferences are your classic Huge Room / Hotel’s Best Rubber Chicken Extravaganza. Yes, a room large enough to hold 2,000 women eating at once. The luncheon food at the three conferences I’ve attended hasn’t been terrible - although there’s not much choice in what you eat or perhaps even [...]
Posted by The Perfessor 07 28th, 2005
Sorry it’s taken so long to post my War of the Worlds movie review, but like I said, my system was down (and I don’t mean depressed — that was me), for a bit. (as you may recall, one of my cousins appeared briefly in a walk-on part. He sent me some addittional info about [...]
Posted by Walt 07 27th, 2005
More on my male take on the female driven Romance Writers of America Conference:
Thursday morning is the beginning of the conference for the rank and file members of RWA. Registration and a quick dash to the “Goody Room” is the order of the morning. Many will forgo breakfast, or perhaps even [...]
Posted by The Perfessor 07 27th, 2005
You may have heard of this tragedy already, or perhaps you haven’t, but at the Boy Scouts of America’s International Jamboree, which is being held in Bowling Green, VA, four scout leaders were killed.
As a Boy Scout, Scout leader, and the father of a Scout, I can only express my deep, deep sorrow, and my [...]
Posted by Walt 07 25th, 2005
The Romance Writers of America are having their annual get together later this week. It’s a big deal. Well… it used to be. I think it still is. It’s just so hard to tell anymore.
I’ve been to three RWA National Conferences. My first was in Orlando. I went to [...]