RWA invites industry professionals from Eligible Publishers and RWA-eligible Agents to participate in the 2008 RWA National Conference, which will be held July 30–August 2, 2008, at the San Francisco Marriott in San Francisco, California.

What is an Eligible Publisher? An Eligible Publisher: (1) is not a Subsidy Publisher or Vanity Publisher; (2) has been releasing romance novels via national distribution for no fewer than three years, with no fewer than two full-length romance novels or novel-length romance anthologies published in each of three consecutive years; (3) provides advances of at least $1,000 for all books; and (4) pays all authors participating in an anthology an advance of at least $500.

To be RWA-Eligible, an agent must: (1) Be currently associated with an RWA-Eligible Agency, or have been associated with an RWA-Eligible Agency for at least three of the previous five years, or (2) Own her/his own commission-based literary agency for a period of three years or longer, or (3) Have sold to RWA-Eligible Publishers at least three romance novels in the previous year, or (4) Have sold to RWA-Eligible Publishers at least 10 book-length works of fiction in the previous three years.

Click here to view the current list of industry professionals attending the 2008 National Conference.

For more information on how to be a part of the RWA Conference, e-mail conference@rwanational.org