A friend of mine, a writer who managed to make me laugh AND get teary eyed at the same moment, has started group-blogging as Swagger. This bunch of writers came together at a Highlights Foundation retreat and really bonded. Collectively, they’re an interesting bunch. Rich Wallace, for example, has written lot of great middle grade and YA novels. (On a personal level, he edited the first short story that I sold to HIGHLIGHTS.)
I plan to watch these people get their swagger on.
Kristin Wolden Nitz 
Thanks for sharing the link. It’s awesome how they met at a conference and connected up.
Natalie,
This kind of thing is cool! I’m still in touch with a group from an SCWBI retreat in France from 1999. In fact, we all went back for another SCBWI France retreat at the same abbey about five years ago.