Conference Gossip Guessing Game — Updated!

Okay, back from conference, where of course I had a marvelous time and learned a lot about craft and the industry and blah de blah blah blah blah…. but come on! Let’s get to the juicy stuff. The gossip!

Note: If you actually attended the STAR conference, you are barred from playing this game.

1. Which editor copped to turning down Anne Rice?

2. Which writer got an offer from an agent at the conference?

3. What author’s mailing list boasts 50,000 members? Which author (not present) can beat that with 75k?

4. Which editor cajoled yours truly into committing a crime not once, but twice, within the space of two hours?

5. Which author admitted to changing the identity of her villain at the page proof stage?

6. Which editor and agent got into a wrestling match for the microphone during one panel?

7. Which agent rejected the Time Traveler’s Wife?

8. What publishing house has been calling agents in search of historical romance novels?

9. Which Harlequin author loves using “the F-word” in her books?

10. What multi-published author claimed she’d never write in one of her most popular genres again?

11. What is the name of the new Silhouette paranormal line and which senior editor couldn’t remember it?

12. Which multipublished author couldn’t remember the name of a lead character in a famous book named after the lead character?

13. Which agent almost got her client and her client’s editor arrested?

14. Which author has a 120 pages to write before Tuesday?

15. Which three authors admitted to not having started their contributions to a project due Friday?

16. Which Golden Heart finalist handcuffed herself to a senior editor?

Fun, huh? This is why I love conferences…

Update:

17. Which agent lost her client’s manuscript in one of the ballrooms?

18. Which conference attendee had a groom, still in his wedding togs, invite her up to the bridal suite for a drink? (multiple answer apply)

19. Which author “pulled a Marley” and pitched her friend’s manuscript to an editor over dinner?

20. Which writer won her registration fee to the Atlanta National RWA conference?

21. Which writer has a picture of herself groping Fabio’s crotch?

22. Which author taught a group of attendees how to open a wine bottle without using a cork screw?

23. Which agent went to Divinity School?

24. Which non-attending bestselling author was talked about most? (hint: not Nora)