
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves - Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
---from Nelson Mandela's inaugural address

(From left to right) Superromance authors Deb Salonen, Anna Adams and Melinda Curtis, Editor Laura Shin, Superromance author Susan Floyd and myself in San Jose, CA.

Debra Salonen, Kate Donovan and myself in the hospitality suite at the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Reno. What a party!

A panel I was on at the convention, speaking to booksellers.

Me and Bonnie, one of my favorite fans.

One of the greatest thrills of my career to date: presenting the Golden Heart for Best Single Title Manuscript of 2000

Presentation of my workshop: First Sale - and Then What?

Me and Rebecca Wade, who sold her first book shortly after I sold mine. We met after she judged Of Noble Birth in the Golden Heart and looked me up to tell me that she loved it. She writes awesome historicals for Avon Books.

Pamela Morsi, who was celebrating her recent marriage to the hunk she brought with her, me, Tracy Sumner, and Eloise James, who writes for Delacourt

Romance Writers of America's National Conference in Washington DC (2000). New kids on the Superromance block -- Anna Adams, Susan Floyd, me, and Melanie Wooten (who actually hasn't sold to Super yet but is getting pretty darn close).