The Harlequin Historical Authors’ Tea

On Thursday, we enjoyed a great luncheon with Lisa Kleypas. She gave a great speech, and later that afternoon, I had tea with the Harlequin Historical authors and the Mills & Boon editors. Pictured from left to right are Jenna Kernan, Julia Justiss, and Amanda McCabe. We enjoyed fabulous desserts and ice cream, along with mint lemonade. Mmmmm…. I sat next to Diane Gaston, and not far from Maddie Rowe who is an editorial assistant for the Historical line. We had a fun chat, and I tried to coerce Maddie into telling me about the cover art for Her Warrior King. Sadly, she wouldn’t tell me a thing. Torture, I tell you.

Pictured from left to right are Maddie Rowe, Kate Bridges, Elizabeth Lane, and Meg Sleightholme. It was really nice to meet everyone, and the authors in particular were so helpful to me in sharing their knowledge.

The other attendees on my side of the table (pictured from right to left) were editor Tessa Shapcott, author Kathryn Allbright, and editor Kimberly Young. After the tea, we went back to the hotel, and I stopped by the cocktail reception for a little while. Later that evening I went out to dinner with my agent Carolyn Grayson, author and agent Lois Winston, and a new client Jessica (I am terrible because I’ve completely forgotten her last name. Sorry!). We got back at a quarter to ten, where I went to the Harlequin pajama party.

The PJ party is always great fun, but this year I didn’t actually change into my jammies because I had just returned from dinner. Instead, I joined up with pals Trish Wylie (shown to the right with her leprechaun Sean), Fiona Harper, Jenna Bayley-Burke, and other friends from eharlequin such as Gail and Melissa.

But one of the highlights was when Lindsey showed up in her animal print pajamas, complete with Tarzan shown below on the left with Jane Hoogenberk of eHarlequin on the right. We romance writers know how to have a good time!