A Message to All Sixers

[Mike Handley]

Greetings, fellow Sixers. You are invited to join us this weekend (Sept. 3-6) in New Orleans, La., for the first House of Writers conference. We’re staying at the Doubletree Inn on Canal Street within walking distance of Bourbon Street and the French Quarter.

This gathering has been announced for weeks, but I thought I'd issue one last reminder to those impulse shoppers who might be inclined to make a last-minute trip to meet the faces behind the words.

This is not a convention. There will be no hourly schedule and no gray-meat banquets. It’s just a bunch of online friends getting together to have fun and flex our writing skills.

Many of us -- Joe, Grey Johnson, Mike Handley, Teresa Cortez, Gita Smith, Michael Brown, Shauna McClure, Sandra and Julia Davies and Jared Culpepper, to name a few -- will be there. If you can make it, be sure to look us up at the Doubletree.

[Absolutely*Kate]

BON VOYAGE piranhas and leopards and winos -- Oh My!

~ Absolutely*Kate wishin' one of you 6-rs of gumption to give Drew Brees my best

[Angela]

Everyone - please travel safely. See you soon.

[Jared Handley]

Leopard print? Oh my my. I'm bringing a video camera. That's my tool for blackmail contribution. I'll be in around check-in time (3pm) Friday.

[Cath Barton]

I can tell - perceptive me - that you're all getting just a little bit hyper. I'm only jealous! I'll be on holiday this weekend, on our very own South Walian shore. But I'll raise a glass to you.

And what say you cross the pond next year. We could give you a good time in the UK you know.....

[Brittany]

Well, looks like we may have a couple of closet piranha wrestling lasses ;) go get em' ladies!! Na'wlins will love you.

[jkdavies]

hmmm....
oh, erm, yeah, me too ;)

[Sandra Davies]

I lied

[jkdavies]

you said you wouldn't tell everyone my hobbies!

[Sandra Davies]

are we back to seizing fucking piranhas again?

[jkdavies]

damn... I have to keep my celebrity alter ego under wraps too?