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| Chat with SECRETS Authors Alice Gaines, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Betsy Morgan, and Doreen DeSalvo 02/01/01 |
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Cissy - Before we start taking questions: Alice, Angela, and MaryJanice - would you introduce yourselves for anyone in our group who might be new to SECRETS?
Go on to Part 2
Angela Knight - OH! I LOVE that idea! My vamp, your werewolf...Ooooo!
ShannonHollis - logged on. - 2/1 at 9:00pm EST
Alice Gaines Chambers - I write as Alice Gaines for Secrets and Alice Chambers for Leisure
MaryJanice - I could tell you my real name, but then I'd have to...oh, what the heck. I'm MaryJanice Davidson, I was proud to be published in Secrets 6. LOVE'S PRISONER seems to be pleasing a few readers. 
Alice Gaines Chambers - I'm in volumes 1 and 6 of Secrets
spin - hi shannon 
Cissy - Welcome, Shannon!
Mari - Hi Shannon
bryony - Shannon
MaryJanice - (watch out for flying plugs) Sample chapters from all my books can be found at http://www.usinternet.com/users/alongi/
Alice Gaines Chambers - Also, I have an e-book out from Hard Shell as Alice Gaines
ShannonHollis - Hi all! Good to be here!
flashy1 - !Hey Shannon!
Angela Knight - I've written three novellas and a novel, for Secrets.
Cissy - Shannon, please jump in and introduce yourselves
Cel - Hi Shannon
Alice Gaines Chambers - Right. My website is http://home.pacbell.net/halice
MaryJanice - Hi, Shannon! People should go to my website to see the WONDERFUL job Shannon does with my site. http://www.usinternet.com/users/alongi/
ShannonHollis - Love those plugs
Angela Knight - Hi, Shannon! You are so good!
Cissy - okay, now you guys were pelting them with questions before I started the protocol! Where'd they go? 
Type ? if you have a question for our authors...
MaryJanice - Angela, a *novel* for Secrets? How'd you manage that?
MaryJanice - I'm sorry, I'll stop telling everyone where to find my website at http://www.usinternet.com/users/alongi/
Angela Knight - I told Alexandria about it, and she liked the idea.
flashy1 - ROTFLMAO
MaryJanice - ?
flashy has timed out.
ShannonHollis - My "office romance" story was in Secrets 5 - How about that hardcover deal with Doubleday, everyone?
Mari - Sorry, I was checking out the sites....
Mari - 
MaryJanice - It's sooooooooo sweet! I love the Doubleday bookclub!
Alice Gaines Chambers - How about that, Shannon. Woohoo 
Camby - 
- 2/1 at 9:04pm EST
Angela Knight - YUM! Gotta love the money.
MaryJanice - What's up, Mari? What can we answer?
Cissy - MaryJanice has the first question (Mari is in line)
flashy1 - Hey Camby!
Cel - Hi Camby
ShannonHollis - So MJ, have you ever really made love in an elevator?!
Sara - what Double Day dea?
Murialisa - hi camby!
bryony - Camby
Camby - Hi all
PattiL - Hi Camby
MaryJanice - When *haven't* I made love in an elevator?
Alice Gaines Chambers - Sara, Secrets is available from the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild
bryony -
Cel - I was going to ask the same thing, Sara (about Doubleday)
ShannonHollis - And you look like such a GOOD girl.
Sara - oh, book clubs
Sara - I already have all six. sorry
MaryJanice - Sara, the Secrets books get turned into book club selections and come out as hardcovers. It's great for us and the money aint' bad neither.
MaryJanice - Hey, I was a Miss Congeniality at my high school pageant. Just goes to show.
Alice Gaines Chambers - I don't know if A-NZ gets the Doubleday Book Club, but if you do, you can get Secrets, hardbound from them.
MaryJanice - Although the guys called me Miss Congenital.
Cissy - Mari has the next question ( Bryony in line)
Cel - I do too Sara...but having them in hardcover would be nice.ht
MaryJanice - Really cheap, too (from Doubleday). Yes, Mari?
Sara - hmm, thinking about that Cel. Hard covers.
Mari - Would any of you consider writing a full length novel for RedSage along the SECRETS anthology lines? And can Angela tell us about hers?
MaryJanice - In a New York minute, baby!!!!!
Alice Gaines Chambers - Yes!!!!!!!!!
ShannonHollis - Yes, Angela, how did you pull this off?
MaryJanice - Yes, you creep, how'd you do it?
Alice Gaines Chambers - I think if Angela's book works out (and how could it not?) AK will do more
Angela Knight - Mine is called MIDNIGHT'S MASTER, a 100,000 word vampire novel.
Cel - Poor Angela...gang up time. 
ShannonHollis - Holy smokes. When's it coming out?
Sara - so, you will have a full length AND an anthology out in December?
MaryJanice - Youch, 100,000 words. I could never do that. Good on you!
Cissy - Angela, I can't wait!!
Angela Knight - Alexandria liked the idea. Yep. December is good for vampires. 
MaryJanice - Angela, you should put a sample chapter on my website which, in case you've forgotten can be found at http://www.usinternet.com/users/alongi/
Alice Gaines Chambers - Angela, did you...ahem...use secondary characters a lot in the book?
Cel - Oh wow...December is not going to come fast enought now.
Cissy - bryony has the next question (no one in line)
bryony - Mari just hogged my question re Angela's books.
ShannonHollis - W
Angela Knight - Secondary characters? Just nasty vampires with riding crops. Sick varmints.
Alice Gaines Chambers - //MaryJanice. What was that website again
bryony - But can Angela be bribed?
Sara - ?
Cissy - Mary, we're trying to talk Angela into a site of her own ... We think she'd love it here 
MaryJanice - I have a question...does anyone know if Alex has filled up Secrets 7? I just pitched her a proposal on the sequel to LOVE'S PRISONER...
Angela Knight - LOL!! Mary Janice, you're a bad, bad girl.
Alice Gaines Chambers - Don't know, MJ
MaryJanice - I deserved that, Alice.
Cissy - Sara has the next question
Angela Knight - Oh! A sequel! Oh, yeah! Gotta rid that one!
Mari - Yes, SECRETS authors at Writerspace!!!! Yeehaw!!!
Alice Gaines Chambers - 
Sara - was that Byrony's question? bribery?
Camby - ?
spin1 - logged on. - 2/1 at 9:11pm EST
Nanette - logged on - 2/1 at 9:11pm EST
MaryJanice - Ask, ask, Sara!!!!
spin1 - hi again
spin has timed out.
spin1 - hi nanette
Sara - okay, I am going to START with Alice.
bryony - Tongue in cheek Sara
flashy1 - Hey Spin! LOL
Cissy - Hi Nanette We're chatting tonight with several authors from Red Sage Publishing, who provide us with those wonderful SECRETS anthologies. We'll be using protocol, so please type ? to line up with a question and I'll call on you in turn.
Mari - wb spin // drink and Hi Nan
Angela Knight - Cissy, yeah, and I'm going to get one here. As soon as I thiink my bank account can manage it.
Sara - Alice, tell us where you got the idea for the tutor.
MaryJanice - Ooooh, she's starting with you, Alice.
Sara - ?
Nanette - HI all
flashy1 - Hey nanette!
spin1 - yeah i need it i just stepped out to check out mary's web page and i got botted 
Cissy - Loved that story, Allice!! 
Alice Gaines Chambers - Thanks, Sara. I've always been intrigued with the idea of a more experienced person teaching a younger one about physical love in a very gentle and nurturing way.
Alice Gaines Chambers - I discovered when I was mostly through the story that Robin Schone had the same idea
MaryJanice - Just in case anyone's missed it (how is that *possible*?) my website is http://www.usinternet.com/users/alongi/
Mari - Yes, where are those tutors found???
Sara - well, I was a bit taken aback by the premise. But I thoroughly ENJOYED the story.
Cissy - LMAO, Mari!
MaryJanice - Catherine Zeta Jones found one.
flashy1 - Not around here! Snort! LOL
Camby - Wow. What a dream!
Alice Gaines Chambers - Thanks, Sara. The resemblance to The Lady's Tutor has been pretty embarrassing.
ShannonHollis - I dreamed the other night I made love with the hero in my current w.i.p. My heroine is a lucky woman!
Cissy - Why can't I have dreams like that? 
bryony - Why don't I have dreams like that *sigh*
Sara - nah, you did it better. No embarrassing historical detail mistakes 
Mari - Do you eat anything special to have those dreams? *looking wistful*
Sara - so, if this was a dream and you only did part of it, when do we get to see part 2?
MaryJanice - That stuff happens, Alice. We've all heard about there being nothing new under the sun. It doesn't mean you didn't write a fabulous novella.
ShannonHollis - These people are in our heads all the time--it's hard to avoid 'em at night!
Cissy - Camby has the next question
Alice Gaines Chambers - Thanks, Sara. Of course, I didn't have much historical detail. But I do admire Robin Schone
flashy1 - chocolate before bed perhaps? LOL
Angela Knight - Shannon -- That sounds like fun.
Helena - 
- 2/1 at 9:15pm EST
Mari - Hi Helena
spin1 - hi helena
Cissy - Hi Helena We're chatting tonight with several authors from Red Sage Publishing, who provide us with those wonderful SECRETS anthologies. We'll be using protocol, so please type ? to line up with a question and I'll call on you in turn.
MaryJanice - Yoink! Nice symbol, Helena.
flashy1 - Hey Helena!
Nanette - hi helena
bryony - Helena
Alice Gaines Chambers - Oh, if you don't mind, I must tell you all. My dh put down the galleys for my latest Leisure book so that he could finish his Robin Schone. Since then I've been telling him "Humph. Maybe RS will cook your dinner, too."
Sara - leaving the historical detail behind, Alice was quite all right in your story
Camby - MaryJanice, did you say you pitched the sequel to Love's Prisoner? And just who would this sequel be about pray tell?
ShannonHollis - Angela--it was great!
Cissy - LMAO, Alice!
MaryJanice - LOL!
Mari - Get him Alice!!!
Alice Gaines Chambers - Part 2 of the Dream. Interesting
Sara - tut tut
flashy1 - HE actually reads you gallies! Way to train a man! LOL
Helena - Alice
Alice Gaines Chambers - But that would be a fantasy...
Angela Knight - Alice \
Sara - ?
MaryJanice - The sequel is about Moira, the pretty little blonde werewolf who lives in Wyndham manor. She's got a problem...she promised her mother she wouldn't mate with a human. But she's *stronger* than most humans! Enter Jared, werewolf bounty hunter...
Alice Gaines Chambers - flashy, he's been showing me typos in the newspaper for 21 years. He'd better read my gallesy
ShannonHollis - Werewolf bounty hunter! I gotta read this...
flashy1 - ROTFLMAO Use those God given talents! LOL
MaryJanice - I'm really lucky; my dh reads my drafts before a publisher sees them. He *hated* LOVE'S PRISONER. So now every time I get an award or a check for it, I wave it under his nose.
Camby - Werewolf Bounty Hunter, huh? Oooohhhh! I get shivers just thinking about it!
flashy1 - LOL Sweet revenge! LOL
Alice Gaines Chambers - Get that man to a doctor, MJ!
Angela Knight - My husband was reading KISSING THE HUNTER, and told me he had to quit because he was getting too..hot and bothered. I asked him what page it was. he said, "Page 4." Damn, mary janice! That sounds just like KISSING THE HUNTER!
Cissy - Sara has the next question
Camby - Kissing the Hunter? 
Sara - okay, my next question .... are you guys scared yet? ...
MaryJanice - I guess guys just don't like erotica for women. When he read my sample chapter for the sequel, he said, "You've got another winner, because I can't stand this one, either." Still, I love the big dumbass.
Angela Knight - Maryjance -- LOL!
flashy1 - ROTLMAO
Cissy - What is it he doesn't like, MaryJanice?
ShannonHollis - MJ, what they don't like is us thinking about our heroes!
Sara - Shannon, tell us about YOUR business experience. This 'strictly business' idea you came up with!
spin1 - of what sara??
Mari - LOL MaryJanice!!!
Genie - logged on - 2/1 at 9:20pm EST
Angela Knight - Kissing the hunter is about a Navy SEAL vampire hunter and a female vampire.
Alice Gaines Chambers - brb...gotta put the lord and master's dinner in the oven
flashy1 - or writing things that they are afraid that they can never do? LOL
Mari - Hi Genie
flashy1 - Hey Genie!
Camby - Where is that story Angela?
Cissy - oh wow, Angela....
ShannonHollis - Ha ha, Strictly Business was a compilation of office gossip and my personal speculative take on it. They asked me specifically NOT to use my company name anywhere in my PR for that reason!!
Genie - Hi, sorry I'm late!!
spin1 - hi genie
Mari - Flashy LOL!
Camby - Oops! Maybe I should've gotten in line for that question. Sorry Cissy!
Angela Knight - But I was just kidding about "exactly the same." You're really good. I love your stuff.
Sara - oh, really???? how cool!!! so, what company is it, Shannon?
bryony - Genie
Cissy - that's okay, protocol is kind of hit and miss tonight
Alice Gaines Chambers - I'm baaaaaaaack
ShannonHollis - Sara, I'm bound to secrecy! But tales of making love on conference room tables were too much for me to resist.
Mari - wb Alice 
Cissy - welcome back, Alice!
MaryJanice - How was the bathroom, Alice?
spin1 - wb alice 
have a drink
Genie - wb Alice
Alice Gaines Chambers - I heard stories about a couch in a basement lab on the Berkeley Campus, Shannon
Sara - trust me, Shannon, I know some that would make your eyes roll back in your head. And I can name names, places and companies
Alice Gaines Chambers - Pink and blue, the usual, MJ
MaryJanice - Hee, hee...
ShannonHollis - I love stories like this
Angela Knight - logged on. - 2/1 at 9:23pm EST
Sara - the freezer one still floors me, though. SRHEN
flashy1 - Oh Sara! LOL
Angela Knight - logged on. - 2/1 at 9:23pm EST
Genie - wb Angela
Mari - wb Angela
Camby - wb Angela
ShannonHollis - Ooh, Sara, we need to talk!
spin1 - wb angela 
heres ur to
flashy1 - angela!
Cissy - welcome back, Angela - decide to go with something a little more blood red?
MaryJanice - I think that's why Secrets are for WOMEN. You know, grown-ups. Ladies who aren't afraid to take a little risk in their reading or their living.
Sara - actually, *shudder* makes buying milk at a convenient store very very kinky!
spin1 - freezer !!!! sara u r joking rnt u???
Genie -
Camby - LOL Sara. No names changed to protect the innocent coz they're not innocent?
Sara - nope, I had to fire the guy, Spin!
Angela Knight - My computer is giving me trouble, y'all. If I disappear, that's why.
PattiL has timed out.
MaryJanice - Sorry, there's nothing kinky about freezer burn on nipples.
Alice Gaines Chambers - My best friend is a sexy doctor. I keep thinking of his examining table and those stirrups. "Scoot down."
flashy1 - ROTFLMAO Chest or stand up> ROTFLMAO
Cissy - *fanning* Alice...
spin1 - OMG sara thats unbelivable *shuddering to think about it*
ShannonHollis - Uh-oh, were there body parts in that freezer or what?
Cissy - Genie, go ahead with your question
Alice Gaines Chambers - I'm bad. Someone should slap me
Sara - walk-in freezer, in a store
MaryJanice - It never failed...the huger I was (with pregnancy) the cuter the doctor. Sigh.
Camby - LOL Alice. No way! *shudder* Don't think I could do that!
Angela Knight - Alice -- Bad girl! LOL!
Genie - Angela, when is Sage releasing your full length vampire novel? Date?
Mari - You could use ties on the stirrups and...No, never mind.
flashy1 - Shiver! ROTFLMAO SAra! LOL
spin1 - LOL alice ur not that kinky r u*giggling*
flashy1 - Mari! LOL
Angela Knight - December on the Vampire novel.
Alice Gaines Chambers - The fun is thinking up things you'd never, in your life, ever do
Camby - Well Alice, at least the "instrument" wouldn't be ice cold!
Genie - ROTFLMAO!!!!
Nanette - had a friend talk about her kids swingsat
Cissy - exactly, Alice
MaryJanice - Do you know if Doubleday will pick it up, Angela? We'll keep our fingers crossed!
flashy1 - Unless...no never mind! ROTFLMAO
flashy1 - Unless...no never mind! ROTFLMAO
Alice Gaines Chambers - Camby -- wine on my screen!!!!
Genie - That is a LONG way off Angela!
Nanette - swingset ... said slide was perfect height
MaryJanice - Alice is so right. That's the best part of the writing...where will these people go with this? Are they in love? In lust? What happens next?!?
Camby - Alice
Angela Knight - Alexandria said Doubleday will do it.
Mari - My mind has run amok with the slide image!!!
MaryJanice - Hooray!!!!! I'm glad.
Sara - swingset? oh, dear me!!
Alice Gaines Chambers - Doubleday is now publishing original romances. I forget the name of their line
spin1 - nanette mymind just conflused then LOL
Sara - hmm, any one listen to Morning Edition on NPR today?
flashy1 - more plausable then the suspension boots Sara! LOL
Cissy - Angela, I have to say you did a GREAT job with building sexual tension in CANDIDATE FOR THE KISS. I didn't know that was possible in a novella but the way the hero talked to the heroine in the first section... oh my
Genie - Is it going to be as as your othr stories?? Or will Doubleday make you tone it down?
MaryJanice - I didn't know that about Doubleday. I'll have to check that out. I'm always looking for new markets.
Sara - and the story with the liquidation consultant? the ex-SEAL? Wolf?
Cissy - what, Sara?
Genie - I hope we see more of the wolf pack from you MaryJanice..
Camby - Genie, you obviously haven't read through a Doubleday catalog. LOL Some of the books they sell..... whew!
ShannonHollis - Liquidation consultant? Is that like a murderer?
Nanette - said her dh was even upside down on slide...who knows
Angela Knight - Cissy! Thanks. I enjoyed having him talk dirty. (I just had to get rid of my 15-year-old to type that.)
MaryJanice - It makes sense for a spy to be a vampire (in CANDIDATE); only the undead could pull off those stunts!
Genie - Nope Camby I haven't!!!
MaryJanice - You will, Genie, my publisher permitting. I'd like to do a series. I'm also thinking about doing Derik's story.
Alice Gaines Chambers - We should say that Doubleday publishes Secrets in the erotica section. We were the FEATURED SELECTION of the Venus Book Club, their erotica club
Sara - they did an interview with this ex-Seal who now is a consultant who closes down businesses. He was compared to Wolf in PULP FICTION, remember him? (Harvey Keitel)
Genie - Yea.....I loved Derik.
ShannonHollis - Quite the cover, too.
Angela Knight - About the vampire novel...He's a former Texas Ranger, and there's this dream where she's on a horse with him, nude...
Sara - well, all I could think of, in Dallas traffic, was Angela's new story!
MaryJanice - Not to mention the story of Michael and Jeannie's daughter, grown to adulthood and ready to take over the pack from her father...
bryony -
MaryJanice - I get a lot of reader mail about Derik. Everyone wants to see him settle down with the right lady!
Cissy - do you guys get frustrated (no pun) with SECRETS being billed as erotic more than romance? Do you think that closes out potential markets or do you think that's less of an issue these days.
flashy1 - Darn it! I have to run! Sick children need me! Good noght everybody!
Angela Knight - Sara -- Ack...! Well, I don't want to put you in danger!
Genie - nite flash, get writing!!
flashy1 - night, that is
MaryJanice - Hope they feel better, flashy1.
Alice Gaines Chambers - Night, flashy
Mari - night flash
Camby - G'nite Flash
flashy1 - LOL YEs ma'am!
Cel - Night flashy
spin1 - nite flashy
ShannonHollis - Cissy, I think sexy romance is really coming into its own. The market is speeding up.
Angela Knight - I'm a little concerned about the erotica thing. And I'm afraid MIDNIGHT'S MASTER won't be hot enough. I wrote it as a parnormal.
MaryJanice - Shannon's right. They're not your mother's romance novels...
MaryJanice - Angela, I know you'll make it sizzle.
Cissy - Angela, if you have any worries on that score, I'll be glad to read the MS and give you my opinion 
Helena has timed out.
Murialisa has timed out.
Angela Knight - Cissy..Lol!
e has timed out.
Genie - Send me MS and I'll give you my unbiased opinion!!! LOL
Alice Gaines Chambers - Angela, I was very pleased to find us a featured selection. On the whole, I think most erotica is too impersonal, and it was good to get that recognition that we're doing something really right
Camby - Cissy, you're MUCH too busy for that. I'll do it.
Cissy - Hey, I'm an English teacher, I'll even proof it while I'm at it
bryony - Mary Janice, I haven't been able to get any of the Secrets books yet, (I'm in Oz). What's the first in your ww stories? Is there a specific order for them?
MaryJanice - Well, men's idea of erotica...and women's idea...well, it's different, for sure.
nalo - logged on. - 2/1 at 9:35pm EST
bryony - Sorry Cissy. ot of order
Sara - Cissy is a good proofer!!!
Angela Knight - Alice -- Yeah, erotica is impersonal. It's writen for men, for one thing.
Mari - Hi nalo
MaryJanice - The first is the only, so far, byrony: LOVE'S PRISONER, in Secrets 6.
Cissy - that's fine, bryony - we kind of lost protocol awhile back
nalo - Hi, Mari, hi, Shannon. late, but here.
Camby - Hey! I'm a professional writer and editor (okay, magazine articles) I should do it! LOL
Genie - I just bet you will Cissy! 
Alice Gaines Chambers - But I find that true even of erotica women write, MJ. Maybe they're trying to be too much like male writers. I dunno
bryony - Oh, i thought you'd done a few.
ShannonHollis - Nalo, welcome!
spin1 - yeah theyre not in NZ either
Angela Knight - Cissy -- Actually, I could use a reader. I need all the help I can get.
Genie - Hi nalo
