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Naked or well-dressed? You choose
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Naked, Dead, Hot
The annual Georgia Romance Writers Convention — aka “Moonlight and Magnolias” — runs Friday through Sunday Sept. 28-30 at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast. There will be panels, agents, authors giving speeches, and lots of networking, as always.
I love the titles they give panels at conferences like this. Here’s a sample. I didn’t make these up!
The Naked and the Dead
Synopsis Writing for the Innocent, the Eager or the Doomed
Is It Hot in Here?
No More Lazy Scenes
Here’s a hint, though: Don’t just show up in the lobby and start handing out that manuscript you know will be a best-seller. Go to the website and register and be taken seriously.
The name is Bentley. Fonzworth Bentley.
I seriously admire Fonzworth Bentley.** The former Atlantan (a Morehouse grad back when he was Derek Watkins) landed a job as P. Diddy’s personal assistant, and then parlayed that into this weird level of celebrity where he promotes old-fashioned style, fashion and general suaveness. He calls himself The First Gentleman of Hip-Hop, and even though - let’s be honest - there isn’t a lot of competition for the title, it’s kind of a cool concept.
A little Miss Manners, a little Kanye West. I’m OK with that. Kanye even gave him a blurb.
Bentley is swinging through town to promote his new book “Advance Your Swagger: How to Use Manners, Confidence and Style to Get Ahead.” It’s a slim volume with a cover photo of a very natty Bentley holding a furled umbrella.
The matchless Bentley will be making two appearances here (reading, talking, signing). At 6 tonight (Sept. 27) he’s at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and at 7 p.m. Friday (Sept. 28), he’s at Wordsmith Books in Decatur.
If you want to say anything about romance writers or Bentley, have at it.
Otherwise, what’s a good book you’ve read lately?
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By Jeff
September 27, 2007 8:01 AM | Link to this
Well, I’m finishing the book I’ve been reading on the 1912 Presidential election, and it does get to what it promised (discussing how “1912 changed America”) - in the last 30 pages or so.
Overall an interesting read, particularly the conclusions on how 1912 changed America. Very solidly written, though nowhere NEAR as enjoyable as the other non-fiction from my lunch series (One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Capt. Nathaniel Fick)
If anyone is interested, the full title and author of this book is:
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs - The Election that Changed the Country by James Chace
By Anna Burke
September 27, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
Writing romance novels is harder than you think. I tried to write a Harlequin Romance and a Second Chance at Love novel one time… had the lost of all the rules that Harlequin & Second Chance required you to follow at the time. I never got past 75 pages. I couldn’t sustain the story of two people falling in love, having misunderstandings/being sabotaged by another woman/man, making up and going through the cycle all over again to the 180 pages they required. Hats off to the writers who do it and make a living. There’s certainly a place in the world for escapist romances!