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There are still 3000 romance authors in the bar, but a batallion of bartenders. Our bartender says of the attendees: “There’s a whole lot of drinking, but there’s a whooooole lot of Diet Coke and water, too.”

Alesia Holliday dyed her hair blue to support her newest novel. Candy, who has a swath of purple hair, thought this was fantabulous. I did, too.

Angela James, Samhain Publishing. “Business as usual,” she says. The red eye is the flash, not her magic powers. She hasn’t used those yet, except for the ones that guarantee that she looks professional and fabulous all the time. Those powers are on max.

This picture doesn’t show it, but Gena Showalter also has her powers of looking fabulous set to Max all the time as well. It’s dreadful, I tell you.

This is the line to get into the signing where people were looking fabulous. The line was probably 200 to 300 people long. It was insane.

Marjorie Liu, with Candy, activating Powers of Looking Fabulous, Asian Plug-In.

Gena Showalter, Candy, and PC Cast, again, Powers of Fabulous. PC Cast was rocking a serious number of PRISM winning pins, plus they both signed until they ran out of books.

If you are going to a book signing, and you want to activate your powers of Hard Core Book Signing Person, bring along a giant egg cart on wheels so as to fill the whole crate with books. A LOT of books.

Candy, Nora Roberts, and Sarah. Nora’s Powers of Looking Fabulous are beyond Maximum setting, and really, there isn’t a scale. Mine, not so much. But we won’t discuss that. 

So far it’s behind the scenes of the how’s and why’s of the creation of a cover. Some of this I know.

But! EC’s “A Game of Dress Up,” Samhain’s “challenging Carter” and Liquid Silver’s “Until Now” all have the same shiny, strappy ass on the cover. Brings new meaning to the term “booty call.”

Waltz With a Vampire by Maggie MacKeever (- think) is a Regency romance. Yet it has a cartoon contemporary looking cover.

“Bad teeth would have helped.”

I was talking to Sandra Hill at one of the author signings, telling her how much the bitchery has enjoyed her Viking covers, and she told me that if we look closely enough at the, uh, fur-covered portions on the blond-bewigged DeSalvo on The Outlaw Viking, there’s a surprise awaiting us. So, anyone brave enough to hunt it out and look?

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Cassie Edwards Articles

• A centralized document of the Cassie Edwards texts (Rev. E, 2/21/2008, Tracks 22 Books, Added a Table of Contents)

One Big-Ass Bastard

• Bill Napoli, who’s a real sexist ass-hat
• Engaging in some friendly Googlebombing
• Another Napoli Update
• Smart Bitch Endorsed Art Auction
• WE WIN AT THE INTERNET