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Southern Lights RWA conference in Jacksonville Florida
March 28-30, 2008, New York Times best selling author,
Suzanne Brockmann, me and Ed Gaffney
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Four of us Savannah Georgia writing gals
at the Jacksonville, Florida
Southern Lights RWA Conference
March 28-30, 2008. |
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Linda Howard, New York Times Best selling author
and me in Atlanta September 2007 at the
Moonlights and Magnolia Writers conference. |
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The wonderful, unstoppable New York Times
Best
Selling Author, Nora Roberts and me at the
Nat'l RWA
Conference in Atlanta, July '06. I hope
her writing mojo
rubbed off on me - I was
squeezing it out of her.
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New York Times best selling author Sherrilyn
Kenyon and me in Feb. 2007 at a conference in
Miami - Feb 2007
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Scholar and New York Times best selling author
Eloisa James, with me, in Miami, Florida - Feb 2007 |
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In Miami, Florida - February 2007. Me, with authors
Jade Lee and Kathy Stephenson |
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New York Times best selling author Heather
Graham and me at the Fun in the Sun, Miami Feb.07 |
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Two authors, Leanne Banks, with me and
Rhonda Pollero at the Miami, Florida conference,
February 2007 |
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Fellow FTHRW Members, me, Joan Frantschuk,
Helen Taylor, in Miami, Florida - February 2007 |
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The very funny and beautiful Meg Cabot of the
Princess Diaries fame, and me, after a luncheon
during the National RWA conference in
Atlanta, July '06.
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Virginia "Ginny" Murphy, engineer and presidential
honored herione, and me. Thirty or so of my friends
celebrated my 45th birthday at my favorite Mexican
restaurant 'Jalepeno's' on Sept 26, 2006. |
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Jennifer Cruisie & Bob Mayer, Two New York Times
Best Selling Authors and all around great people, and me,
at their book signing during the Nat'l RWA Conference in
Atlanta, July '06
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Incredible, talented and super sweet Pat Mason,
Author and Assistant District Attorney, me, and
Pat's sister Jacqueline Mason at my 45th birthday
luncheon, Sept. 26, 2006.
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A terrific good-looking group, the Tuesday Morning
Carpe Vas Bible Study Group at my friend Ann
Phillips' coffee shop across from the historic and
gorgeous Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah.
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Thomas Peter Lavrisa and me,
Lois Marie Lavrisa, on our
wedding day in Chicago, IL,
Sept. 14, 1991
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My husband of 15 yrs, Tom, an
Aerospace engineer by day -
"biker dude" by night. I'm the "go-go"
girl, Halloween 2006.
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Emro Family Reunion, July 2006, in Mazon, IL
The Lavrisa family: L to R, Tom, Melanie (age 13),
Ryan (age 6), Tiffany (age 8), Sean (age 14), and me
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Emro Family Reunion, July 2006, in Mazon, IL |
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My hubby Tom & our first born
son-Sean -
Boy
Scout Troop 57 Savannah GA, 2007 |
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The ‘Downtown Divas’ all friends extraordinaire and
some of my favorite people too- October 2007 |
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The 1985-86 National Basketball Association
Chicago Bulls Cheerleaders - "The Luvabulls."
I'm the one on the far right balancing my
backside on the chair. |
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