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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Yetis do Tulsa

Finally recouped from this weekend's Conestoga 12 conference in Tulsa, Okla. It was an inspiring weekend. Met awesome people and great authors, discovered new books to check out, and learned some secrets of the trade.

Made Mark Henry some brain cake. (See photo of Eliza and the bubble-gum pink icing.) (Guilty admission: Don't have a picture of the final cake. Anyone else?)

Learned interesting tidbits about life that I was better off not knowing. (Can anyone say "olive fetishes"?)

Bought a couple of books, had them signed, and I've already finished one of them (highly enjoyable). Received free books, bookmarks, buttons, postcards, pens and the like. Shay wants a shirt that says "Swag Whore."

The best part of going besides the fun times, cool people, was how the panelists made writing a book and being published seem not only easy, but an attainable goal. The projected mindset was "If we could do it, you can definitely do it."

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