Oy. We’ve been busy this spring and summer. Rocky Mountain
Fiction Writers’ May and June education events, RMFW board meetings, Crested
Butte Writers Conference, family vacations and writing retreats. Yes, there has
been some writing in there as well. We’ve had fun, but we’ve been busy. As
anyone can tell by looking too closely at my house. It’s a good thing I have teenagers who
love me and are willing to keep our environment livable.
Have you been to the Colorado Gold Conference?
Planning to attend this year? Will this be your first time? Please share your anecdotes
from past Colorado Gold Conferences or any other. Some of you know, I’m hanging
myself out there with this request considering the amount of time my husband
has spent in the hospitality suite. Be kind. Please.
Coming up next…the RMFW picnic. The weekend after that, Marne,
Mike and I are off to a writing retreat in the mountains above Telluride. If
you haven’t been to Priest Gulch Campground… http://www.priestgulch.com/ … you should
visit. It is amazing. Every year we get a cabin with a porch over-looking the
Dolores River and spend five days writing. Actually two of those days are my
office’s work retreat. A couple years ago, we decided to combine it with a
writing retreat, so I take some vacation time and we show up a few days early.
After the retreat the next big event is The Colorado Gold
Conference!! It’s seems so far away, but deadlines are looming. Anyone who
wants to take part in the free pitch sessions or the editor/agent critique workshops,
needs to be registered for the conference by July 15th.
The Colorado Gold Conference is my favorite weekend of the
year. Luckily it is also Mike’s. Otherwise his feelings might be hurt by my
previous statement. Oh, and my best-friends’ favorite weekend as well. So, I’m
good to go, right? A hotel full of good friends, agents and editors to schmooze
and so many things to learn. Who wouldn’t love the weekend?
