Awards And Conference Wrap Usher In Writers Rainbows End

Fabulous, frantic, frenetic and deliriously informative is how this past weekend's SD25 has been described. Indeed, it was every bit all that and more. With so many great writers, agents, and editors in attendance, all delving headlong into the fresh waters of today's empowerment possibilities -- from smart, smaller and indie press alternatives to N.Y.'s flailing corporate houses, to the growing prospects of digital vindication every author must now embrace -- this year a virtual pot o' gold awaited writers in San Diego: information = opportunity.  And as you can see in the photo, the rainbow that planted in the golf course directly outside our hotel Sunday afternoon affirmed it.  The informed writer is the writer most likely to succeed.  And at SD25, we reveled naughtily in that promise.  Now onto the awards...