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July 28, 2005

Reno Day 3 - it's OFFICIAL!!

From Alesia, contemplating blackjack

The lovely and talented Barbara Ferrer is now officially a pubbed author!! Two-book deal with MTV books/Simon & Schuster! We at the Literary Chicks are SO happy for her and her well-deserved success!! And I am so happy that I was standing next to her in the casino when she got THE CALL!! (Fingertip-shaped bruises on my arm to prove it . . .)

I have pics too but am too computer challenged to know how to load them, so here is a little update till I get there:

The chick lit party was FANTASTIC!!! I have never seen so many great shoes in one room in my LIFE!! What a fun time and it was great to see everyone.

This morning, I had to get up ridiculously early to do a workshop at 8:30 am with my brilliant agent and the lovely Beth Kendrick and her editor. We had a packed house - standing room only!! Marianne Mancusi was kind enough to wake up early and reschedule her meeting with her editor to moderate for us. Gave away tons of the new mass market edition of AMERICAN IDLE - it's so CUTE!!

Many meetings and breakfasts and lunches and this afternoon a fun reception at the national classic car museum. I'll be sure to take pics there! Then a reporter is taking Lani and me and the other Best First Book Rita finalists to the roulette wheel to spin on our ISBN numbers! She's going to write a column about us and I'm so LAME I'm sure this will be my only gambling. LOLOL!!

Trust me, the way this week is going, I feel like I'm already a winner. :)
hugs,
Alesia

Posted by Alesia at 6:23 PM