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I just wanted to thank everyone for a wonderful weekend.  It was so much fun for all of us to see our hard work come together.  It was great to see new relationships forming as the weekend passed.  Forming friendships is what CR is all about to me. 

 As many of you know, CR attendance has been declining over the years.  Since Karen, Cybil, and I took over the conference,  I’ve been putting money into the conference to keep it alive.  Circumstances dictate that I can’t do that anymore.  We had decided that 2007 was going to be the last year as much as it saddened us to make that decision.

When people heard the news, several authors came forward with ideas to save CR.  I’d like to hear ideas from all you about attracting more readers.  I’d be especially interested in attracting younger readers.  That’s not saying that all of us are old:) but we need to keep bringing in more people if CR is to survive.

One of the ideas from authors was to combine CR with an RWA chapter conference.  While it has it’s advantages, we’ve decided against it for 2008.  The concern is that we would have to condense CR to one day.  Can you envision that?  We don’t run out of topics to discuss in two days; keeping it to one day boggles my mind:). 

 The new schedule flowed very well and we will keep it for 2008.  Please contact me with any ideas of activities or topics for discussion that you would like to see. 

 Thank you again for all the support and the fun.