Greetings from Denver! I have a terrible hankering to flee my hotel and start heading toward the mountains. The leaves are just beginning to turn as nature begins its fall symphony:) Today is my 15th wedding anniversary - away from my husband who is such a good sport about all of this. I did call home last night and talk to the boys a few minutes. They're doing quite well without mom and have likely already eaten all the groceries I bought. I'll be back Sunday.So...I had such fun last night after falling in with a group of Texans, all writers, and then having dinner with a female doctor who writes medical fiction and also Candace Calvert, nurse and author who has a new book out entitled, Critical Care. If you like those ER dramas on tv this one is for you! I thought of all the nurses in my family and wondered how I ended up a writer. It's really fun to talk books with other authors. That's ALL we talk about which is just fine by me after going solo for so long but must get a little tedious to nonwriters.
The conference actually begins this afternoon at 4 pm for me and then it will be nonstop activity till Sunday noon. I love ACFW's focus on the spiritual aspect of writing. Plus you really never meet a stranger here! I've had wonderful conversations in the bathroom, elevator, Starbucks, and every nook and cranny of the hotel. Of course it doesn't hurt that we have name tags the size of road signs:)
Hope today holds some unexpected blessings and good books for you!
Happy Anniversary!!! Congratulations on 15 years and a fine-looking family! The "Colorado Fall" picture takes my breath!
ReplyDeleteThat's great. And that picture is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! You'll have to celebrate 15 years and a week when you get back home.
ReplyDeleteHey Laura! So glad you are having a great time and Happy Anniversary! Our 15th was in August so we are close together on that too! I hope Randy has something special for you when you get home. Sunday will be here before you know it. I am at work writing this as I am working 60 hours in one week! Feeling a bit achy with a bad cold so hoping it gets better and not worse! Talk to you soon but thinking of you and wishing I could hang out with you in Denver!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for you and all the writers attending. I keep checking Facebook for blog updates and mean to read all I see. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ann. I sure miss my family but have been so busy it has hardly crossed my mind. Wish you were here to see the fanfare about your book! Looking forward to seeing you in Kentucky in November:)
ReplyDeleteHi Rhonda,
ReplyDeleteWish you were here too as you'd like the big Starbucks in the lobby:) I can't believe how many nurses I've met like you who write medical fiction! Hope Sept. is going well for you! Talk soon!
Hi Adge,
ReplyDeleteYes, the picture is gorgeous but it's even prettier in person! Thinking of you:)
Hi Virginia,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the anniversary wishes. I sure miss them but will be home soon right back to sea level. All this book talk makes me dizzy! Or maybe it's the altitude:)
Hi Lori,
ReplyDeleteWish you were here as we'd have some fun talking books and 18th-c. stuff:) Your name is in this year's program for Genesis so congrats!! I can send to you if you like but you may already have or may not need. Thinking of you!
Laura,
ReplyDeleteIs my name mentioned in regards to last year, you mean? I didn't enter the Genesis this time around. But cool that my name is mentioned at all. LOL.
And I forgot to say Happy Anniversary! Brian and I recently celebrated 22 years, which is so hard to believe.
Thanks, Lori! You ARE in the program this year:) I'll send you an email.
ReplyDeleteLaura, I'm excited to hear that you got to meet Candace Calvert. I've emailed her several times, and she seems so nice.
ReplyDeleteHer medical drama romance Critical Care is set in my Sierra Foothills town of Placerville, California. When I heard that, the book became a must read for that fact alone. After staying up until 6 a.m. one morning to finish her riveting page-turner, I can highly recommend it for far better reasons. I lifted my bleary eyes from the last page, held the book up and said, "Now, this is how to write a book." And then I crashed. :)
Hmm. Come to think of it, I had a similar experience when I finished reading The Frontiersman's Daughter, only my words that time were, "What beautiful pictures Laura paints with words as her medium. I wish I could write like her."
Keli,
ReplyDeleteNow I need to add Candace's book to my mountain:) She is a sweetheart. And thank you so much for saying I paint vivid word pictures. When I was finished with TFD I worried that I hadn't done that so very happy to hear from you and others that it did happen. Makes my day!