Useful Austin writing group; 2008 conference

I attended a Freelance Austin meeting this afternoon. I think it will be at least as useful to anyone working on breaking into the field as the Writers League of Texas - and I consider them invaluable. And for breaking into published author status, I took the leap of signing up for the 2008 Agents and Editors conference. Now the pressure's on to create two manuscripts. (I'm not limiting myself to one, even with graduate school.)