RWAustralia Conference

I spent the weekend in Melbourne (it was freezing as expected). As usual it was great to put faces to names and catch up with other who I hadn’t seen for a while.
Some of the highlights for me were:
Author day—very interesting listening to others speak about their journey and learn from their experience, I also got grilled by Jennifer St George in the media training.
Going to the Harlequin dinner for the first time—everyone was so welcoming and I sat with some lovely ladies including fellow Carina author Janni Nell.
Bob Mayer did the Friday workshop and the take home for me was that naturally we play to our strengths. So I need to look at my weakness and find some courses/books to help with them (no, I’m not sharing what they are)
Friday cocktail party…
Saturday I shopped, but it was for research (and an awesome pair of jeans, three pairs of shoes and a couple of tops).
Sunday I went to the King Tut exhibition. Very interesting and while ancient Egypt fascinates me, it doesn’t inspire me—not in the same way Celtic mythology does. Also on Sunday the Carina Press authors had lunch and it was great to meet them and talk to them and Angela James (who was the first editor to tell me ‘not this but send me something else’ 3 years ago).
By the time I left Melbourne I was exhausted and I have yet to read the conference notes in full.

The overall message was persistence, and it doesn’t matter how you publish it's about reaching the readers—they’re the people that count.