Do It Even Though It Is So Tacky And Obnoxious: Name Dropping

I can't help myself. The past two weeks of travelling from San Francisco to Washington, DC and New York have been bursting with amazing places, interesting people, and cool things.

I promise this is only a sample!

PLACES

Yankees Stadium: They have caramel apples. Yankees Stadium 1. Giants Stadium 0.






The Popover Cafe: Air-conditioned pit-stop after strolling through Central Park







Baked by Melissa: bite sized cupcake genius






Serendipity: the picture speaks for itself - frozen hot chocolate goodness!







Mooncake: Closest I got to "Food-O'-My-People" just a few blocks from Penn before returning via train to San Francisco to new York








Writers House: Check out that shelf! How do I get on it? If you look really hard on the left side you will see a teensy peek of my agent, Maya!





PEOPLE

Sophie Littlefield: While her booksigning was the highlight of my time with Sophie, last-minute McD's runs and pajama party rank up there, too


Lynn Coddington: Fellow PensFatales got a quote in the Washington Post! They also awarded her a PhD in English to accompany her actual PhD in, I believe, Socio-Linguistics.



Ellen Oh: Her Blueboard avatar is an adorable little pig but in real life she's an adorable human with great taste in Korean food and no compunction about stalking fellow Blueboarders Marissa Doyle and Melissa Marr at the RWA Literacy signing.





Shana Silver: Her Blueboard avatar makes her seem six feet tall but in real life we're evenly matched at five feet! I only met her for a few hours at New York's A Voce but am convinced she's going to take over the world with her next manuscript.





Lizette Serrano: We've always met up on my turf so it was great to see her on her turf (Scholastic = Heaven) and to meet the wonderful ladies she works with - Scholastic authors are a lucky bunch!


THINGS

The RITA Award!! San Francisco Area's Romance Writers of America congratulates its member, Pam Rosenthal, for her RITA win! And we thank her for letting us touch it!