Celebrate Romance! 1999

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Celebrate Romance! 1999

Dates: May 21 - May 23, 1999

Contact: Sara Reyes, (972) 741-0988 sjreyes@ticnet.com 972.741.0988 214.583.0865 facsimile P.O. Box 1340 Addison, Texas 75001-1340

Cyber Romance Readers Meet for Off-line Conference

Celebrate Romance! 1999

Westin Suites, Philadelphia Airport, Philadelphia, PA

May 21 - 23, 1999

http://home.earthlink.net/~elaineklee/

On-line readers of romance converge on Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, for the second annual romance cyber-readers conference uniting active readers with romance authors including New York Times best-selling authors Dorothy Garlock, Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney and NEBULA nominee Catherine Asaro.

Confirmed authors, booksellers, readers include: Catherine Asaro, Jo Beverley, Terri Brisbin, Christine Bush, Suzanne Coleburn, Linda Cutler Smith, Judy DiCanio, Tracy Fobes, Lori Foster, Dorothy Garlock, Jo Goodman, Shirley Hailstock, Sandra Hill, Linda Hurst, Miranda Jarrett, Michelle Jerott, Mary Jo Putney, Ann Lawrence, Gail Link, Victoria Malvey, May McGoldrick, Stephanie Mittman, Alice Orr, Katie Rose, Barbara Sheridan, Deborah Simmons, and Mariah Stewart.

From author chats, to reader chats, to meeting on-line friends, Celebrate Romance! 1999 is where the cyber world collides with the physical world!!! Participants will be exploring such diverse topics as "Nourishing the To-Be-Read Pile", book trends, on-line shopping, collectible books, cyber communities, starting and nurturing book groups, and the state of the publishing industry.

All sub genres of romance will be represented: contemporary, Regency, time travel, historical, paranormal, futuristic, medieval, multicultural, category and "other". This conference represents a valuable opportunity to share stories, discuss books and do real-time chat with fellow readers.

Romance books are the largest segment of paperbacks sold in the United States and represent a billion dollar market in the United States in 1997. Nineteen publishers produced 2,020 books in 1996. 1999 has seen the debut of category books on the New York Times Bestseller lists with Nora Roberts. (statistics compiled from Publishers Weekly, Ingrams, the Book Industry Study Group, and ABA.)

The book signing on Sunday at the Philadelphia Airport Westin Suites Hotel is open to the public. Visit the web site http://home.earthlink.net/~elaineklee/ for information on times, biographies, registration and activities.

Celebrate Romance! 1999 is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a community for cyber readers of romance fiction. Executive Director is Margie Wilhelm who can be reached via e-mail at dreams@ns.net.

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