How Far to Pittsburgh?

In between the endless, lonely work of querying agents (2 rejections and one request for pages so far), I did a little daydreaming about being able to afford to go to the Romantic Times convention. In browsing the site I couldn't quite believe my eyes when I came across the Cover Model Dinner.

To spice up our 25th Anniversary Convention we've rounded up several cover models for an exclusive, intimate dinner with these gorgeous hunks that will make a lifetime of memories.

For an extra $100 you get dinner with Fabio, Adrian Paul (not sure what he has to do with romance covers?), and the ubiquitous, uni-expressioned John DeSalvo, who you may recognize from this:




And this:




Oh, the drama.

But it gets better:

Fortin and Sanders Illustrations have been commissioned to paint Adrian's and Fabio's portraits, which will be raffled with proceeds going to The Peace Fund, and Support Our Soldiers America, Inc.

If you think a painted portrait of Fabio sounds bad, it could be worse. One of the other models at the dinner looks like this:




And one looks like this:




That is some scary shit on your bedroom wall. Scary. Shit. Will anyone keep their dinner down?

I'm tempted by the portrait, if only for the Ebay potential, but... nah. I think I'll keep my money and stay home. You can send out a lot of pages with a hundred bucks.