A few weeks ago I finally found a conference I want to go to that I can afford. It’s called The Book Academy, a conference for writers & readers, here at UVU, and it only cost me $40! Plus it pays for breakfast & lunch! So many times I hear of a great conference that I would absolutely love to go to, but it costs upwards of $200 and more! I can’t believe what these people are charging. Are their costs really that high?
Anyway, this sounds like it will be a really great conference. Of course I wanted to go to about 3/4 of the available workshops, but obviously that’s not going to work. Luckily my boss is going to come too so we’re splitting up the list of workshops we want to go to and then exchanging notes afterwards. That way I can get the information from more workshops than I might otherwise. (I wish they’d sell or give the transcripts and presentations from all the workshops after the conference.)
Either way, this ought to be a great conference. I’m so glad I could go. I sure wish more conferences were affordable (okay, so the term affordable is subjective, but it takes much less to save up $40 compared to $200).
