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So this past weekend I went to Ohio for the Lori Foster Reader/Writer Get Together in Cincinnati! Also known as PORKOPOLIS according to my friend Alex, who picked me up at the airport. I hadn’t seen him in…oh…16 years? Something like that? And I’m pleased to say, it was NOT just like old times — it was much nicer! Funny how that older and wiser business works.
The Get Together was much fun — got to hang out with my friends Anya and Lauren and my agent, Laura Bradford. Always a good time. And I got to meet my new editor from Berkley, Cindy Hwang! And that was…FABBBBBULOUS! Got to spend Friday night chatting with her and went to dinner on Saturday at this restaurant called MESH which was super schwanky. Cindy is a hoot and a half and I’m so excited to be working with her.
Got to meet lots of new people (thanks Laura and Rhonda for braving breakfast with us! That was a LOT of butter!) and came home feeling refreshed and ready to work. All in all, a great trip. And, of course, because that’s how it works with me, I made a video diary about it. See the pictures! Witness the madness!
Oh, and just on a side note: I’m not an advocate of not having a life, of burning yourself out, of overscheduling. I have deadlines out the wazoo and have a comfortable writing pace and feel okay about what I have scheduled for myself. I also have a life. I fart around online, watch Supernatural and play House of the Dead and hang with my kids. I will go on vacation this summer. It’s all good.
If you’re whining about putting out a book a year? STFU. Seriously. If you CAN NOT write more than a book a year, well…that’s too bad. I can. I do. So do many of my friends. I’ll gladly take your slot on the NYT and your movie deals and I will do it while having a life…and yes. I’ll sneer at you for whining. I don’t sneer much in public — I’m pretty much a ‘do as thou needest for thy own career’ type person. But the “hamster wheel pace” of a book a year? Please. I laughed out loud and rolled my eyes and looked for the cheese to go with that whine. Puh-leeze.
Anyway, I’m back, I’m ready to work, it’s summer and I just got some more good news about another project so…yeah. I’d better get on it.
M
PS — people who are searching for “Megan Hart naked” — eeeeew. God. Why? WHY?!!!!
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