WASHINGTON - An elderly woman who looks like Nancy Reagan at aMary Kay party is cooing over romance novel covers stapled onto avast display board. Wearing gold pins, pink ribbons and agrandmotherly smile, the romance fiction writer turns, looks at thereporter and says: "Young man, trash us and we'll find you. Thenwe'll kill you. OK, dear?" Another woman - who had been comparingthe covers of "The Cowboy and the Virgin" and "The Pregnant Virgin"on the display - chimes in: "Yeah - use the phrase 'bodice-ripper'and your life won't be worth a nickel."
They are among 2,000 female publishers, agents, writers and would-be writers wafting through the check-in at the 20th Annual …

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