Suzanne Welsh and Sandy Blair celebrating Suzanne’s Double Golden Heart Finals for 2006.

Shelley Bradley teaches: Story Boarding For the Plotting Challenged.

Kathy Garbera receives several flowers from PAN Liaison Sylvia McDaniel for the SALES vase.

Treasurer Franny Karkosak and Membership Director Phyllis Middleton welcome members and guests with smiles.

Guest Speaker, Lani Diane Rich, teaches us how to break the rules on the road to publication.

Rob Preece adding another SALE flower to the vase.

Kay Sisk marks another sale with a flower to the SALE vase.

Jana DeLeon proudly displays her cover for her 1st book, Rumble on the Bayou…due out Oct, 2006!

Caroline Clemmons gave us tricks on making our characters go from flat to attention getting.

Cari Manderscheid, out-going Program Director, introduces Caroline.

Jennifer Evans receives her Pro Pin.

Julia London spoke about the art of writing humor. She gave us several scenarios which we were to flesh out with different types of humor techniques!

Treasurer, Franny Karkosak, and Membership Director, Phyllis Middleton, showing off new DARA Café Press items.

Diane O’Brien Kelly receives a carnation for the sales vase for a short story sale.

Author, Janis Susan May received another pink rose for the burgeoning sales vase.

A very full Sales vase, and the year is only half finished!

Guest Speaker, Cindy Dees, lead us through her Master Character Class.

Tracy Garrett received her First Sale white rose for her western historical.

Victoria Chancellor adds two more pink roses to the vase for her books 18 & 19 with Harlequin.

Somewhere behind the burgeoning DARA sales vase hides Pan Liaison, Sylvia McDaniel.

Sara Thacker receives her First Sale white carnation for her dark romantic suspense with Wild Rose Press.

Lise Sherwood-Fabre tells us about her Blackrosette story with Wild Rose Press before adding her sales carnation to the vase.

Lorraine Heath recognizes the outgoing board members and committee chairs, aka the Motely Crew.

Guest speaker, Vicki Lewis Thompson revealed the inside scoop on category and main stream romances publishing.

Vicki Lewis Thompson and DARA Program Director, Jo Dittman.

Author Celya Bowers receives two pink roses for the sales vase.

Multi-published author Kara Lennox celebrates two more sales.

Jo Dittman receives her “first sale” white rose.

A fantastic way to end the year’s sales record for DARA authors.