{"id":7429,"date":"2016-08-21T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2020-12-30T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:44:54","slug":"romance-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=7429","title":{"rendered":"Romance by the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7430\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7430\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/room-view.jpg\" alt=\"The view from my balcony at the hotel\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/room-view.jpg 600w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/room-view-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/room-view-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from my balcony at the hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A balcony, a sunset, a sea view and a glass of wine \u2013 no, not a romantic weekend away (I wish) \u2013 it was the 25th Annual Romance Writers of Australia conference. This had the theme Ain\u2019t Love Grand, and was held in the lovely city of Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time I have travelled down under for this conference\u2026 and what a great time I\u2019ve had both times. These are my tribe \u2013 like minded readers and writers, most of whom have the same accent I have.<\/p>\n<p>There were some great speakers (I will share some of that with you in the next week or two when I recover) \u2026 some fun social events\u2026 and many books, of course. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cabaret theme was celebrated in costume at the cocktail party, and some famous faces dropped in to help raise money for the Indigenous Literacy charity that was being supported throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The booksigning (organised by Australian Romance Readers Association) featured more than 60 writers \u2013 and it was a real pleasure to be one of them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7432\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7432\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/booksigning.jpg\" alt=\"booksigning\" width=\"259\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/booksigning.jpg 370w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/booksigning-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/booksigning-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting ready to meet readers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And of course \u2013 there was the gala dinner and presentation of the Romantic Book of the Year Awards \u2013 congratulations to all the worthy winners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7434\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7434\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cake.jpg\" alt=\"The 25th Anniversary cake\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cake.jpg 335w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cake-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cake-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 25th Anniversary cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ll be posting some notes and tips from the conference sessions next week \u2013 but to whet you appetite, over on the Take Five Authors Blog, I share some of the things I learned in the pre-conference all day workshop with the fab Michael Hauge. There was really really helpful stuff in that workshop &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/takefiveauthors.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/20\/the-second-time-is-the-charm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">so take a look. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A balcony, a sunset, a sea view and a glass of wine \u2013 no, not a romantic weekend away (I wish) \u2013 it was the 25th Annual Romance Writers of Australia conference.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12,6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-events","category-my-travels","category-reading","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-1VP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}