Top Ten Conference and Tour Highlights of 2014
December 11, 2014
Here’s a recap of my conference highlights this year.
#10-Giving a presentation at the Pasadena Memorial High School in Texas. I received such a warm welcome from this school. The kids were so fun and helpful and even carried all my stuff to the car. They provided a fantastic lunch and were such fabulous hosts. I’d love to go back!
#9-The Utah Tour. I did a four school visit with Bree Despain and a book signing with local Utah authors. Had a blast seeing my long time friends (I used to live there) and shopping with the girls. Found out I love touring with other authors and hope I can do that more often in the future.
#8-The AZ tour. It was so fun touring Arizona with my mom and family members. My brothers have now all officially been to either one of my book signings or school visits. It was so cool for me to visit the schools of my nieces and nephews! Most favorite school experience was when a 10 year old boy started crying when I ran out of books.
#7-Meeting and conversing with a pair of Deaf twin girls at the Romantic Times Convention in New Orleans. My fellow authors were so impressed that I was able to converse with them and they were so awesome to chat with.
#6-Winning a prize at the steampunk tea party at the Romantic Times convention. It’s always cool to win something and I love seeing all the costumes! Next year we are actually dressing up too!
#5-Dancing at the Saints and Sinners party at the Romantic Times convention with my sisters. We laughed at the cover models that were dancing with a lot of…ahem…enthusiasm at the party with the attendees. We learned a new line dance to the Cupid Shuffle which was so fun!
#4-Another dancing one. I danced with the other YA authors at the Teen Party at the Romantic Times convention to Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel-one of my favorite songs ever!
#3-Took a picture with Jennifer Armentrout and her cover model for the Lux series, Pepe Toth. He smelled so good! I told my husband and he started wearing what I call man lotion from Bath & Body works. It’s called Whitewater Rush. Smells so good!
#2-The Rocky Road Marshmallow dessert we got at Perry’s Steakhouse and Grill in Houston. Soooo yummy!
#1-The YASH author brunch at the Romantic Times convention. It was a lot of work to get it ready but it was so nice to gather together as authors and just chat. Unfortunately, we aren’t going to do it next year since I’m already committed to do other things but we will try to do it again on a future date.
And there you have it. My top ten favorite conference experiences this year!
Colleen
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