Books from the ECWC

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Emerald City Writer's Conference sponsored by the Greater Seattle Romance Writers of America Chapter. As is tradition with this conference, it featured a book fair on Saturday afternoon with over 50 authors signing their books with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit DAWN of King County (Domestic Violence Women's Network). Additionally, several books were given as freebes both in the goody-bags for attendees and by one of the keynote speakers. Here's what I picked up:

Free:
Knight of Desire - Margaret Mallory
My Fair Temptress - Christina Dodd
Love, Suburban Style - Wendy Markham
Quinn's Woman - Susan Mallery
Kiss of Fire - Deborah Cooke (keynote speaker gift to attendees)

Purchased at the fair (Craft related):
Passionate Ink: A Guide to Writing Erotic Romance - Angela Knight
Writing Romance - The Ultimate Guide on Craft, Creation and Industry Connections - San Francisco Area RWA
Goal, Motivation & Conflict (aka The Bible for any writer) - Debra Dixon (hint: if you want this book and if you're a writer you do - get it directly from Gryphon Books as most other places are charging insane amounts for this book)
Writing The Breakout Novel Workbook - Donald Maass

Purchased at the fair (Novels - All but Ms. Cameron's signed by the author):
Cypress Nights - Stella Cameron (already read - report to follow soon)
The Conqueror - Kris Kennedy (This was really special - Kris is a fellow Hearts Through History RWA chapter member - I went up to say hi and check out her book and decided to get it - she told me that this was her first book, her first book signing and I was her first sale!)
Dark Warrior Unbroken - Alexis Morgan (2nd in the Talions series - the first is Dark Warrior Unleashed)
An Inconvenient Wife - Megan Chance
Sinjin - Julia Templeton
Outlaw in Petticoats - Paty Jager
Giving Up the "V" - Serena Robar

I'm excited to share my reports on these and all the others waiting on my to be read shelf -

Reading Now: Angel Creek by Linda Howard (from the library)