Yes, I am a bad blogger. But we already knew that. I truly have been swamped – or perhaps just swampy, like George in WAWW — now that I am in thick of writing RV2: This Time It’s Personal. The writing goes well some days, less so others. But that’s the way it is.

On a more positive note, I had a terrific time at the July 4th gathering at Proud Books. Thanks to Jocques and Fay Jacobs for arranging the reading. It was a great turnout. Here are a few photos — the super grainy one is from my new cell phone — I hadn’t fiddled with the settings yet — photo credit for the rest goes to the other writers:

KI Thompson

Colette Moody

Stefani Deoul

Fay Jacobs

And here’s me and my buddy, Jackie, who was so cool to stop by:

Better late than never, I suppose!

Saturday in Orlando was by far the busiest day for me. I had a coffee chat and reading scheduled for the afternoon. Then off to a quick dinner and rushing to get ready for the awards reception. Phew!

I was nervous about the coffee chat since I haven’t had much experience “off-the-cuff”. But knowing I would be flanked by Tracey Richardson and Andi Marquette I knew it would be okay — that they would throw me a life line if I started to go down. We had a nice group in attendance who asked thoughtful questions about our work. A few photos. This one is practically an action shot — my hand is all ablur.

Andi making an aside to Tracey. Sorry about the leg, Trace!

After, I had to run off to my reading — I only have one shot of this and I look kind of funny in it so I will post it. I look sort of like, As the Hilton tilted and began to sink into the marshy Florida ground, she gripped the podium, gritted her teeth and continued with her reading. (Thanks to Margot for this one!):

That’s all for tonight — next up will be the awards reception and even some fun dancing shots!