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By: Gennita Low

Gennita Low — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:19:21 +0000

Rock on, Lauren :twisted:! Brrrrrring her the hookah!

By: Deidre Knight

Deidre Knight — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:18:26 +0000

I think I just spit out my last glass of Saturday night wine. Or would that be whine, if others (who shall remain nameless) had their descriptive say about me, you and everyone else who cares about educating RWA’s members?

Lauren, you rock and so does this blog post. Thank you for saying it all, with humor and grace!
Deidre Knight
(Did someone pay you a 1k advance for writing this??)

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:42:34 +0000

I’ve been a librarian for over 10 years now, and I’ve yet to join ALA. And they are actually relevent to my career (I’m told anyway). The only reason I was planning on going to DC this year was to see you and all of the other writers I’ve met at RT and Lori Fosters, and the book signing. As far as writing, nothing they say can help me make my books better, and that’s what I’m focusing on for now.
Rant on, Lauren, you rock. :)

By: Tuscan Capo

Tuscan Capo — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:16:24 +0000

Argh maties, where’s me shining gold thousand gildas?

You make some excellent points!

By: RWA Needs Change-but not sure I care enough to stay : Melissaschroeder.net

RWA Needs Change-but not sure I care enough to stay : Melissaschroeder.net — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:40:39 +0000

[...] Lauren Dane -She’s been posting several blogs about this for awhile now. Take the time to read them, good info and thoughts. [...]

By: Brandy W

Brandy W — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:24:26 +0000

I can tell I’m way out of my league with all of this. I want to understand but really don’t. I’m not sure if that stems from me being a reader and looking at the end product or if there is something else.

I want my books in any format that I can get. Hell I just set up my phone so I can read on it. One fantastic multi-functional piece of technology. I’ve yet to figure out how to cram a print book in it.

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:38:05 +0000

You know, babe, many of our shared friends have encouraged me to join RWA. But I can’t bring myself to. I just can’t. And it’s for this reason.

I want to be part of an organization that takes me for what I am. A writer. It doesn’t matter how I get my fiction out there — and right now, I’m doing it as a bottom-feeder (and making a profit, mind you). What matters is that I deserve the respect and support of everyone else out there working hard to improve my craft.

Maybe it’s because I’m Jewish and I’m sick of these same attitudes in the Jewish community: You’re not Jewish enough. I don’t know. But I do know that until ALL these writing organizations get off their high horses and respond to the changing industry, I’m not joining any more of them.

If that means I’m as solo as I am right now, so be it. At least no one’s cutting me down for building a readership and serving them.

By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:34:03 +0000

oops, forgot to add…

“Publishers, make that $1000 vow of faith.”

(stupid fingers pressing the submit button too fast.)

By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:32:34 +0000

Hey Lauren,

Your husband is a very smart man, sounds like mine!

I too wonder about this woman’s obsession with $1000 dollars. It reminds me of Robert Tilton the tele-evangelist that comes on TV at about 4 am asking for a $1000 vow of faith.

Maybe Pershing regularly meets Tilton for coffee and they’ve both determined $1000 to be a good amount of money to focus on.

Doesn’t sound like career-level money to me though.

Maybe Pershing needs her own television show.

By: Cynthia Eden

Cynthia Eden — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:10:38 +0000

I’m really curious…I wonder how many of the 10,000+ members are actually epublished? B/c I think that number is fairly large (not such a minority after all). In my local chapter, the epubbed outnumber the print pubs and that’s the case in several other chapters I know of, too. Just curious…