I’m so in. When and where and I’m there.

But, more importantly, I’ll go to your book signing if you come to mine.

You speak the truth. And I’m totally writing a letter

My main problem with the session was that half of it had nothing to do with the steps or knowledge we would need to help us become published authors. Instead it was two hours of self-adoration, especially by Mr. “My blog pays my mortgage”. I found there to be too much condescension and not enough nuts and bolts of the business. I don’t expect a panelist to blow smoke up my hoohaw and serenade me with “it’s all rainbows and unicorns” – I’m a realist and I expect hard truths. But I don’t expect or appreciate spending so much money and time in order to build up someone’s ego. Since both authors followed the same format, I don’t know if this was something the BlogHer powers that be implimented or if it was the authors idea – but it was a bad one.

That being said, as a first time BlogHer attendee, I found the conference to be a great networking and socializing platform and I loved meeting my online friends and finding new folks who I clicked with. I also learned some interesting and helpful information – just not as much as I imagined I would.

I’d probably give it another go, especially since I heard from so many people that last years panels were so much more informative (so maybe this was a fluke?) I’d be interested in hearing from veterans to get their take on it.

I can’t wait to get my summary post up…. And I can’t wait to get back to writing. It was awesome to meet you!

Apparently I’m very forgettable. And I’ll take the core of awesomeness any day. Who wouldn’t want friends that live in their phone!

And I’ll fully admit that a core of awesome readers beats a readership of 20 million, though a book deal would be wonderful. If only I had a manuscript….