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Announcing CR 2009

Posted Sunday, May 4, 2008 by Karen Wheless

Announcing Celebrate Romance 2009!

Next year’s conference will be held in Portland, Oregon, from Friday February 27th to Sunday March 1st. The registration fee will be the same as it was this year, $150.

Leanne has made arrangements for us at a beautiful hotel in the heart of downtown Portland, The Benson. It’s a gorgeous hotel, originally built in 1912, with all kinds of modern amenities. The hotel rate is $129 per night, which is about the same as it was this year.

You can check out the hotel at their web site: http://www.bensonhotel.com/

I’m really looking forward to it - I’ve never been to Portland before and I can’t wait until the end of February! Only ten months away!

Karen

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CR in 2009

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by Karen Wheless

The sad news… CR is over for another year. But there is good news - we’ve already started planning Celebrate Romance 2009! We’re still working out the details, but we are looking at several cities in the West and Northwest, and dates in March. (It may be a bit chilly, but CR is always hot…)

If you want to keep up on all the latest CR news, please sign up for our newsletter. You’ll be the first to hear about next year’s plans.  Of course, it will be announced here as well.  See you in 2009!

Karen

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All The Buzz About CR

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 by Karen Wheless

We’re famous!  CR has been written up and discussed on blogs and discussion groups all over the web.  Here are a few of the sites:

http://www.myspace.com/celebrateromance

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/03/11/celebrate-romance-report-2008/

http://www.romancenovel.tv/wordpress/rntv/marias-blog/

http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288/post/650022665.html

http://flickr.com/photos/freshfiction/sets/72157604039528325

http://www.kodakgallery.com/pjsgallery/rwa

I’m sure there are more that I’ve missed, so if I’ve missed your favorite, send me a link and I’ll add it to the list!  Karen at crspring dot com

 Karen

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Your Two Cents

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 by Karen Wheless

CR 2008 was a great success, and I had a great time - I hope everyone else did, too!

If you’d like to share your thoughts on the conference, please take our survey - there’s one for authors and one for readers.  (Most of the questions are the same in both surveys.)

If you’re an author, please use this survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MpjM_2f114dswN0sRNG8ShNw_3d_3d

If you’re a reader, please use this survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=WI2zEczrLYSsPoEFwjBpAQ_3d_3d
 

Hope you have fun,

Karen

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Events Schedule 2008

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 by Cybil Solyn

FRIDAY
5:30pm: Registration opens

7:00pm: Dinner and meet and greet hosted by Jade Lee & Elizabeth Hoyt

SATURDAY
9:00AM: Stephanie Bond, “New Genres & New Settings: How Dead Bodies lead to Romance”

9:20AM: Jenna Black, “Demons, They’re not just evil anymore: How Urban Fantasy is taking romance by storm”

9:40AM: Linnea Sinclair, “Science Fiction: Finding a Future in Romance Reader’s Hearts.”

15MIN BREAK

10:15 DISCUSSION GROUP TALKS BEGIN

GROUP 1 (40min)
Rosemary Laurey, Viki Lewis Thompson, Cindy Holby
“Nerds, Mythical Beasts, and Betas: The New Unconventional Hero”
A discussion on how romance characters are changing with new hero
types, and role reversals of hero and heroine. Do we like it?

GROUP 2 (40min)
Linnea Sinclair, Jenna Black, & BA Tortuga
“Blurring of Genres: The Good, The Bad, and the Just Too Weird”
A discussion of what we all think about new genres, new romance rules,
and what’s in the market.

12PM-1:30PM LUNCH

1:30PM FINAL DISCUSSION PANEL
Isabo Kelly, Linnea Sinclair, Julia Talbot
“Bringing it all together: Unconventional tales and the Changing Face of Romantic Fiction.”

2:30PM FREE TIME, ABT, Off site Book signing, etc

SUNDAY
9:00AM Sabrina Jeffries, “The Tale of My Addiction to Romances”

9:20AM Sara Reyes, “Starting a Book Club”

9:40AM Isabo Kelly, “Beings of Myth, Legend, and Fantasy”

10:00AM Book Signing and Raffle

12:00PM Good Bye!

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