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Monday Apr 21, 2008
Report from Romantic Times Booklovers Convention
Their biggest attendance ever; rumored to be 1100 registrants, not counting staff. Seemingly all of them - plus many readers from the local area - converged upon the Hilton Hotel ballroom at 11:00 on Saturday morning armed with vintage novels for signatures and ready to buy, buy, buy (from bookseller - Joseph Beth) and they did. People everywhere standing in line for favorite authors such as Christine Feehan, Lisa Jackson, J.R. Ward and Heather Graham among others. By near closing time the crowds in the ballroom had thinned, but not enough to quell panic among a number of attendees when the lights went out and the room went black. They came back on not too long afterward, but the question guests are asking Hilton is not why the lights went out, but why the emergency exit lights did not go on. However no one in the crowd of mostly women readers uttered a word of complaint about being trapped in the dark with the many "studly" young men preparing to compete in the evening's Mr. Romance pageant. More after the jump including The Fabio Incident and Mr Romance 2008 The suprise encounter of the weekend was between Fabio and the Rebel of Romance Liz Maverick who says "perhaps he did not actually mean to put his hand on my bazoonga... it's not really a cop or a feel given that he's not really, like, *gripping* at anything, really. Perhaps it's more of a...shall we say, "grazing"? You'll have to visit her site and judge for yourself when you see the picture. In trolling for other news about the con, I came across Wendell's "Overheard at the RT Convention": Mr. Romance contestant #1: I'm a model and dancer.
As for who won the 2008 Mr Romance competition? Janice Lynn has great coverage on her blog with tons of pictures, but for the record its...Chris Winters. If you want your morning fill of beefcake, check out his gallery Email This Post |
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