Here we are waiting for the pizza to be delivered. In clockwise order starting with the first person on the bed, Sandra Marton, new Presents author Jenny Lucas, Medical author Olivia Gates, Modern Extra author Jenna Bayley-Burke, Romance and Modern Extra author Trish Wylie, Romance and Medical author Marion Lennox, Romance author Fiona Harper and Romance author Carol Culver.
Marion and Fiona are both RITA finalists. Marion has two books in the finals. Fiona's first book is a finalist in two categories: Traditional and Best First Book.
Jenna and Trish were a lot of fun. They made a run to the bar and brought up two bottles of win and a bottle of bubbly! We were an international group with the following countries represented: Australia, Egypt, England, Ireland and the USA. Three of us were from the Pacific Northwest!
Marion brought yummy Tim Tams all the way from Australia for us to eat. They were chocolate and very yummy. I ended up sticking three in my purse to take home to the kidlets! Jenna said her kids love them.
Olivia brought melt in your mouth baklava all the way from Alexandria, Egypt. She also gave each one of us a lovely Egyptian pewter frame! If you visit the community boards at eharlequin, you might remember Olivia's story of selling her first book a couple of years ago.
A final group shot after dinner before we headed out to other parties or off to sleep. It was really fun meeting HMB authors who's books I've read and enjoyed (some for many, many years!)
