I'm not a big fan of Vegas, I'm not big on gambling so basically it's just a sparkly city in the middle of the freakin' desert. Don't get me wrong, I have been known to dump spare change into slot machines for lack of anything stimulating to do and come away $500 up, but I was there for work. Fortunately the hotel was a nice lil' Resort Spa with 3 pools, one of which a few of us in a slightly inebriated state took a dip in our clothing or in my case my pj's, oh my!
We had some excellent authors: Terry Goodkind got all philosophical and Ayn Rand on our asses......Debbie Macomber made us laugh and choke on our lunches, but I was most impressed with Tim Sanders an inspiring Yahoo Lovecat that had us all in tears and hugging each other in the name of business, I guess Love is the Killer App!
Publishers give us tons of freebies for these conferences I think to torture us with the the thought of having to drag 100lbs worth of books through the airport, ugh. I don't keep the majority of the items, I share with the hotel staff, employees, friends and family......I don't need anymore books.....really....well maybe one more book....heh.
