{"id":1292,"date":"2017-07-20T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2017-07-20T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:40:50","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-romance-writers-of-america-conference-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-the-romance-writers-of-america-conference-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the Romance Writers of America Conference Next Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/RWA2017-e1490916416464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1294 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/RWA2017-e1490916416464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/RWA2017-e1490916416464.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/RWA2017-e1490916416464-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m super excited to be going to the RWA annual conference next week! It&#8217;ll be just me and the hubby &#8211; NO KIDS!!! &#8211; at the Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando for about a week. I&#8217;m hoping to network, meet interesting people and make lots of connections, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1295 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PassionatePlumeFinalistButton-002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>VENGEANCE is also a finalist in the Passionate Plume contest, put on by Passionate Ink! They&#8217;re announcing the winners at a dinner during the conference, so I plan on getting drunk and having a good time whether or not I win. I&#8217;ll probably embarrass myself, because that&#8217;s what I do best! I always try to remind myself that contests aren&#8217;t super important; they&#8217;re based off a few people&#8217;s personal opinions. And let&#8217;s face it &#8211; my stuff can be weird, and doesn&#8217;t perfectly fit into any one\u00a0category of romance.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever. Here&#8217;s to a drunken, half-naked, helluvah good time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m super excited to be going to the RWA annual conference next week! It&#8217;ll be just me and the hubby &#8211; NO KIDS!!! &#8211; at the Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando for about a week. I&#8217;m hoping to network, meet interesting people and make lots of connections, etc. VENGEANCE is also a finalist in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-the-romance-writers-of-america-conference-next-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Ready for the Romance Writers of America Conference Next Week!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-kQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}