Aww, I’m really sad that this two-day conference is all the way across the country from me.
But if any romance readers or writers are going to be near the Washington, D.C. area in mid-February, it might be worth the time to register:
“What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age” will be held at the US Library of Congress, on February 10th and 11th, 2015.
From the announcement:
Registration now is open for those wishing to attend the conference “What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age” to be held Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Library of Congress.
The event is hosted by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Harlequin, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, is the lead sponsor. Additional support is provided by the Popular Romance Project; the Nora Roberts Foundation; the Romance Writers of America; and Berkley/NAL, imprints of Penguin Random House.
Romance fiction is the second-best-selling genre in the publishing industry, generating more than $1 billion in publisher revenues in 2013, according to Bookstats. Romance accounts for 21 percent of the adult fiction market.
The conference will speak to the business and social aspects of romance writing, romance literature scholarship and public engagement with people who love the genre. The Popular Romance Project, led by Laurie Kahn of Blueberry Hill Productions, also includes the feature-length documentary film “Love Between the Covers,” directed by Kahn. There will be a preview screening of the film at the Library of Congress on the evening of Feb. 10.
The conference and film screening are free and open to the public; attendees are asked to register at www.popularromanceproject.org/prp-conference.
* For those of you not familiar with semi-archaic English, this is a huge and topical howler of a pun. I cannot believe the organizers are not aware of it. Bravo, folks, bravo.