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I have great news! Ever since March, we have been working on finding a way to continue Celebrate Romance for another year. We had such a great time in Kansas City, we just couldn’t let CR die. And thanks to Leanne and the other CR volunteers, we’ve been able to make arrangements for CR 2008.

Next year’s CR will be held in Columbia, South Carolina, from Friday February 29th to Sunday March 2nd. We looked at several other dates, but we ran into conflicts with other events in the area, as well as other romance events. But March in Columbia should be much warmer than it was last year (no snow!)

We looked at several cities in the Southeast, but settled on Columbia because we found a great hotel, the Inn at USC, which is a small hotel near the University of South Carolina. It combines the best of both worlds - it’s small enough to give us individual attention, it’s not too expensive, they have great meeting rooms, and it’s located in the downtown area near lots of shops and restaurants. And they have great food! I need to double check the rates with Leanne, but if I remember correctly, we have a room rate that’s similar to last year’s cost.

We already have two fabulous keynote authors signed up - Sabrina Jeffries and Stephanie Bond. We’re thrilled to have such great authors already! And we’ll have many more authors signing up in the months ahead, so stay tuned! If you are an author and want to find out more, you can email Cybil at csolyn@gmail.com and she’ll give you all the details.

It’s very important that next year’s CR is a success. If CR is going to continue to thrive, we need to find new ways to bring in new attendees, especially readers. We love our authors, but we need more readers to go with them! We’ve been brainstorming to come up with new ways to publicize CR and spread the word about how much fun we have every year, but we need your help. If you have ideas, please send me an email - I’d love to hear from you! karen@crspring.com

The web site will be updated once we have more specific details. (Be sure to sign up for the newsletter if you haven’t already.) See you in Columbia in 2008!

Karen