#1 My friend and fan Lyda Mae doing a spontaneous tai chi routine for me in the middle of the lobby at UVU on the first day. She’s been confined to a wheel chair for years, but after a successful surgery SHE CAN WALK AGAIN! This was the best news of the weekend.
#2 James A. Owen’s keynote address, which was so incredibly inspiring (listen to the audio here, it’s worth your time). James is not only a motivational speaker, but is an amazing illustrator and author. Please check out his books after you listen to his speech.
#3 Having dinner with James A. Owen and some of my friends Thursday night. The best dinner ever at LTUE.
#4 Tracy Hickman saying he was having a “fan boy moment” when he ran into me while I was being interviewed on Residual Hauntings Revived
#5 Attending a seminar on how to give a good reading by Hugo and Campbell award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal—she’s the best reader in sci-fi fantasy writing today. She also did a two minute shadow puppet show—she’s a professional puppeteer and totally awesome.
#6 Listening to Mary Robinette Kowal read from her upcoming novel, Glamour in Glass, coming in April 2012. It’s Jane Austen with magic.
#7 Getting to hang out with Patrick Tracy, my best friend.
Authors Dan Wells, Paul Genesse, Larry Correia, and Zachary Hill
#8 Seeing so many friends and fans.
# 9 The Secret Empire (my third book) hitting number 57 on Amazon.com’s eBook bestseller list the first day of the conference. It went from 20,0000 to 57 that day.
#10 Selling out of Book 1, The Golden Cord in the UVU bookstore.
11 comments:
What a great conference. Thanks for posting the pictures and for writing wonderful books about dragons.
Thanks, Cathy. You are so welcome. Thank you for reading.
Author Paul Genesse
Is this because I posted my list of ten? ;) Haha Nah. Great pictures!
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to hang out with you for a while. It was good to see you there. And congratulations on your books!
Thanks, Jaleta. I'm glad I got to see you at least.
Bonnie, I totally got the idea of a top ten list from you. ;)
It is alway good to see you at LTUE, Paul. Congratulations again on your new book. Way to go.
Thanks, Anna, it was great seeing you too!
Thank you for this post - #3 is awesome. :)
James is giving away a free copy of the Drawing Out The Dragons ebook for the next week because of something that happened as a result of the keynote he gave at LTUE. He wrote about it on his Facebook page -
http://on.fb.me/JAOoneDay
Hi Heidi,
Thanks for that link. I hope lots of people download the book.
Paul
Wow! Thanks for posting those pictures. I wrote about you in my blog post here: http://wordsmith-at-play.blogspot.com/2012/02/catalyst.html
Thanks, Wordsmith. I really appreciate the post on your blog. Thanks again!
Paul
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