Chat with Jill Barnett 07/29/01 at Writerspace

Chat with Jill Barnett 07/29/01

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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
Jill Barnett
In her stunning hardcover debut, New York Times bestselling author Jill Barnett creates a powerful novel of love, honor, and courage, set against the epic panorama of World War II. Passionate, poignant and powerfully told, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY is an intense, grandly classic novel of love and war, spanning three continents and an infinite range of human emotion. It is a triumphant adventure, a extraordinary tale of the choices made for love and country at a time when ordinary, everyday people become heroes.

Ann - Jill had typos? I din;t noticean y tupos.
spin - i'm sure mine is evil
spin - the computor i men
spin - the computor i mean
talpianna - Ann, you're needed. Didn't you see the AnnSignal?
april - I just asked if you were going back to paperback or staying with hardcover?
Gin - That is because you are so used to decoding mine, it is like second nature now Ann
Jill Barnett - say never, but I'm not a fast writer. I would like to write the sequels to BEWITCHING & DREAMING and I would like to do them in paperback. I have no idea when. I am working on my 60s book, and then maybe a Christmas book with some character you all know (that's all I'm saying) and then I'm doing another book like these. Then I want to do this book about a special woman and I can't tell you about it.
talpianna - My lovely new computer Spot never makes misteaks.
Cissy - BethS has the next question (Talpianna, Marjbird in line) - the queue is closed
Jill Barnett - Ann! LOL
april - So, basically, you're busy.
marjbird - Do you do an putline before starting to write a book?
Gin - Jill have you been taking teaser lessons?
spin - huh anne what r u talking about>??
Gin - LOL Marj
marjbird - Tease, tease, tease!!!
april - ?
Javon - logged on - from 216.51.102.179 on 7/29 at 9:39pm EST
BethS - Jill you said you didn't like the poster when it came out - the poster for PEARL HARBOR or the poster for SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY? And what didn't you like?
YH - what, we'll get back to guessing games on the board? (regarding future books that is...)
Gin - Hi Javon
Cissy - Tonight we're just finishing up our chat with Jill Barnett about her spectacular new book, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, a powerful novel of love, honor, and courage, set against the backdrop of WWII. We've closed the question queue, but please join us!
april - Oh, I loved the title guessing game! LOL
Javon - hi everyone
Jill Barnett - REgarding PPB, April. I have to become a more prolific writer to do that. I can't churn out books like some of these gals can. I wish I could, but I don't write plot driven books. The character driven ones take a while. However, I'm am now working on one a year and I think I can do that and still have a liffe and not drop dead in five years. )
Jill Barnett - GA
Cissy - april, I'll sneak you into the queue
Gin - *Sigh* well Jill I guess we can live with that , if you can
Cissy - Oops, Javon - there was supposed to be a "welcome Javon" at the front of my post!
YH - authors, having life... yeah I guess you need one, instead of staying in front of computer night and day writing...
Jill Barnett - PH the movie had a poster that was all the characters heads in the sky and then they switched it and had one with Affleck and KAte Beckinsale kissing like SJ!
marjbird - Take your time and keep your writing the grand think that it is!!!
Kiki - dogs barking to go out....gotta go...Thanks Jill! Goodnight everyone!
Jill Barnett - Did I miss a ? GA
BethS - oh no!
april - Thanks.
MissKate - Have a good night, Kiki!
YH - Night Kiki!
Cissy - Talpianna has the next question (Marjbird, April in line) queue is closed
Jill Barnett - Goodnight! Enjoy the journey when you can get to it!
spin - bye kiki
Kiki - - from a060-0125.cmb2.splitrock.net on 7/29 at 9:42pm EST
Javon - hi Cissy! Jill i'm a big fan and can't wait to read SJ
Jill Barnett - That you Marj and I love that period too, but I was born in 1949
talpianna - I've been asking this question around lately; there doesn't seem to be an official answer: what is the dividing line between historical and contemporary. It first came up with queries to Elizabeth Lowell about writing the story of the parents of the Donovan clan. Be gentle with your answer: I was born a couple of months after Pearl Harbor! (just one damned thing after another.............)
Jill Barnett - Hi Javon, what a pretty name.
Javon - Thank you Jill
spin - sorry ladies but i must go to its getting very cold again and i dont want to get any worse than what i am so happy reading and sweet dreams
gerri has timed out.
spin - - from akcf1.xtra.co.nz on 7/29 at 9:44pm EST
talpianna - Night, spin
YH - bye spin!
YH - darn, missed her.
Jill Barnett - I believe and this is my take on it, not anyone else's. that Vietnam is historical. We are in 2001. My books to me are historical, the WWII one, the 60s one and the ones I'll be writing in the 50s and 30s
Jill Barnett - Goodnight!
Jill Barnett - GA
marjbird - Just wanted to say that I was glad you made the point that these was a German soldier and then there were Nazi's.
YH - Hey April and Kate, a hint!
Cel - Goodnight Ms. B and thank you for chatting with us
MissKate - Oh, the thirties and the fifties? Those are great time periods. Lots of interesting events and trends in both of them.
Cissy - Marjbird has the next question (April in line) queue is closed
april - Darn, I hate the fact I slept through history.
Jill Barnett - I think the 80s is pushing it. Barnett
talpianna - I have problems with a book dealing with an era I lived through being historical! And who put that bronze plaque on my butt?
YH - okay, who we know have offsprings that can be in those times? hmm...
Cel - Ooops...I wasn't trying to rush you out Ms. B...thought you were leaving
YH - lol talpianna!
Jill Barnett - I think you need to not think of it as history, per se, but as time past...nostaligia.
Sara - sorry, Tal. I am younger than you by a generation, and I think that the sixties are history
Sara - for that matter so is the 90s
Jill Barnett - I'm here.
marjbird - That is a thought, that my ear is historical, I prefer to think it is histerical! HA!
talpianna - I spent much of the 60s in grad school in Berkeley, and had the dubious privilege of being teargassed in the privacy of my own home.
Jill Barnett - I like to think of myself as living in history. I saw a president assassinated, his assassin murder on live TV. I saw Civil
YH - ugh talpianna. teargases are awful.
talpianna - Sara, EVERYBODY is younger than me by at LEAST a generation! And don't believe all you hear about me and Millard Fillmore; we were just friends!
Jill Barnett - Rights and the Abortion laws changed. I saw women get a better stake in things. I lived through three wars...Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War. IU love that.
YH - and talpinanna, although I'm younger than you are, we all are still living history...
Cissy - Marjbird, did you get to ask your question?
YH - Come on, I remember the times before the internet, when typewriters were more popular than computers, and tapes were the things, not CDs!
Jill Barnett - Talpianna, can I email you for research...seriously. Barnett
talpianna - I watched a war in my living room at dinnertime.
marjbird - Yes, I snuck it in. THanks!
Jill Barnett - I remember 33 and third record and worse...78 rpm
Cissy - April has the last question
Javon - i was my father's remote :/
Cissy - lol, Javon
april - Oh, pressure!
YH - not to mention, when E.Germany was still under communism, for that matter, the cold war!
Jill Barnett - I missed Marjbird
YH - LOL Javon!
talpianna - Sure, at talpianna@aol.com
Jill Barnett - That's right. Ther Berlin airlift adn the Berlin Wall
april - OK, uh my question is kind of superficial. I was chatting with an author and we got to talking (because it's what I do best). Have you ever fallen in love with and/or hated a cover? Although, ASJ is, by far, the nicest cover.
marjbird - My grandfather was James Knox Polk-Wall. I bet I can beat you all on memories.
talpianna - But I'm not talking about me and Millard!
marjbird - I remember wind-up victrolas.
Gin has timed out.
Cissy - SJ has a GORGEOUS cover...
talpianna - My father once met General Custer's widow. My mother's grandfather was Sitting Bull's interpreter.
april - Although a person isn't supposed to judge a book on them, covers do make me buy a book or not.
marjbird - Adam and Eve are my distant relatives.
talpianna - - from spider-ntc-tb083.proxy.aol.com on 7/29 at 9:52pm EST
YH - LOL marjbird!
Jill Barnett - Oh..yes! I hated...despised, wanted to rip into peices the orginal cover of SURRENDER A DREAM. I was not happy with JAKA and I adored WONDERFUL. Didn't like WILD and begged them to change it. Loved WICKED. I'm trying to get a special coer for CD--the 60s book. Keep your fingers crossed
MissKate - LOL, marjbird and talpianna! I'm feeling green in comparison.
Jill Barnett - They are getting ready to repackage BEWITCHING DREAMING, SURRENDER A DREAM AND CARRIED AWAY. The new covers will out this coming MArch.
talpianna - Just clicked on it; it is lovely. Reminds me, oddly enough, of Michael Hague's illustration for the "Wayfarers All" chapter of
talpianna - WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
YH - Well, yeah, I can understand your dislike of those covers...hee... having one up on my wall...
gerri has timed out.
april - Newer than the new covers?
Jill Barnett - SURRENDER A DREMA had Howdy Doody on the cover insteadk of Michael Bolton
Cissy - Jill, thanks so much for chatting with us tonight! And much, much success with SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. We're not kicking you out -- feel free to chat as long as you like, but we like to offer our authors a graceful exit after an hour on the hotseat
YH - Wonderful was an all around wonderful book... wonderful characters, story, cover, etc, etc...
Jill Barnett - Those new covers are five years old.
april - Really? Gosh, where have I been.
talpianna - I remember when margarine came white, with a little packet of yellow food coloring that my mother had to work in by hand. Top that!
Jill Barnett - They need to repackage them to get the bookstaores to take the books. They won't take my backlist because of the covers.
MissKate - I haven't seen the original SAD, but I admit, I did wince when I saw JAKA. I agree about WONDERFUL and WICKED - the stepbacks are lovely.
Jill Barnett - That's why people have to order my books all the time
Cissy - seriously, Jill?? That's awful!
april - You haven't? I'll show you. I've got it.
marjbird - I got mile from the cow, and stirred it in a churn
YH - I have original Heart's Haven...
april - But there's a new book out called the Pleasure Master and they'll sell that one! That's ridiculous.
Jill Barnett - White margarine? Yuck . I remember oleo tasted like gasoline
YH - but I've got covers for ALL the books in my computer...
talpianna - I begin to think that farriers and buggy whip makers know more about what books readers really want than publishers and booksellers.
Jill Barnett - The business is pretty difficult for the publishers.
Javon - i totally agree with you there tal
YH - and I'm crossing my fingers that I won't lose them all when I reset my computer...
Jill Barnett - The Heart's Haven has Elvis on the cover and he's wearing blue eyeshadow.
april - If you do, YH, I'll scan them again.
talpianna - Jill, have you been following the lawsuit over e-book rights?
cate - ooh, computer problems, got to go. Thanks Ms. Barnett, this was great and so are you! 'Nite girls!
april - OMG, I love the eyeshadow. LOL
Cissy - Elvis in blue eyeshadow, hmm?
Cissy - Night, cate - thanks for coming
YH - night cate
talpianna - A friend of mine who writes fantasy has what LOOKS like a woman with three breasts on the cover of one of his books
MissKate - Good night, Cate!
Sara - Thank you for chatting with us, Ms. Barnett
YH - thanks april!
Ann - Elvis? I seem to have missed a few covers along my 25 years of reading romance! *lol*
Jill Barnett - I think these new cover will be plainer and will pop on the newsstands and the bookshelves. Cover tastes change and the bookstores demand certain covers. Waldens doesn't carry my backlist because they don't like the covers.
YH - My computer is driving me insane, so my solution is to reset the harddrive...
MissKate - Hehehe...I've seen that cover of THH - Kit *does* look...um...dramatic.
Sara - I hope to see your next book soon ... okay, next year?
cate - - from sa10-p12.dreamscape.com on 7/29 at 9:58pm EST
Jill Barnett - Goodnigt to whomese is leaving adn thanks for ciming by! GA
Sara - - from evrtwa1-ar4-100-182.elnk.dsl.gtei.net on 7/29 at 9:58pm EST
BethS - I have to go, but I loved chatting with you! Thank you for doing this.
BethS - - from 5gis162.gulftel.com on 7/29 at 9:59pm EST
YH - but you ARE staying, right Ms B?
marjbird - Once you know an author, the cover isn't as important. It is the new reader that the cover must appeal to.
Cissy - Oh surely we can coax Jill back sooner than next year!?
Jill Barnett - I'm working on it. IT opens with a letter from one charcter to the other six. It opens in 1990 and then goes back to 1966.
YH - So what does it matter that my cousin is sleeping in this room? I can still type!
Javon - that is very true marjbird.
april - Hey, covers are important. I bought Bewitching because it was purple.
YH - yeah, I started READING JB because of Bewitching's cover...
Jill Barnett - I can a few minutes more but Cissy needs to rest. She';s been working too hard.
YH - And the synopsis...
Jill Barnett - IF you ahve anymore questions I will answer them.
Jill Barnett - YH...whcih one?
talpianna - I don't much like covers that depict the characters because they restrict the imagination
YH - I agree marjbird though, for new readers, covers are important, but not for people already hooked on the books...
YH - The original one Ms. B.
talpianna - I have a question for Cissy (and a reminder to re enable PM)
Jill Barnett - Thank you Cissy for the great chat. I'll be happy to do something again.
Helena has timed out.
april - Oh, I got my mom to start ASJ. She said she's reading it so I'll stop nagging her.
Ramona - logged on - from 015gra040.chartermi.net on 7/29 at 10:02pm EST
YH - I was out of good authors to read, and the purple drew me... and the stars were nice...
marjbird - Thanks Jill Barnett! Till the next chat and the next book, Take care!
Cel - Night Jill B
YH - But I was puzzled by the way Alec looked on the cover once I started to read Bewitching...
Jill Barnett - Thank you, April )
Cissy - Thanks for coming, Jill! What a fun chat
april - HAHA I have Bewitching on my computer. I had no idea.
YH - If you are going, Ms. B, thank you, and take care!
MissKate - Good night, Jill! Thanks for chatting with us!
april - I never noticed the stars.
talpianna - Thank you, Jill. And I'll answer any questions I can (except about Millard)
YH - you didn't? I thought that was different...
april - Thank you very much!
Jill Barnett - Goodnight to all! IF the questions are done, I'll bip over to the website. I owe Mireya an answer and April and Joey some answers, too. I've been gone so much!
YH - so, you are back, Ms B?
YH - and how's the new book going?
Cissy - Thanks again, Jill! Come back soon.
Javon - it was a pleasure Ms Barnett, thank you
Jill Barnett - Thanks you, guys. I hope you will always want to read a Jill Barnett book. Know that I'm trying to make each one special and different. Bye! Jill
april - Thanks, Ms. B and Cissy! Cissy, I said it before, but you still are the best chat moderator!
Javon - goodnight everyone
Jill Barnett - YH, I'll post on the BB
Cissy - aw, thanks, april
YH - As always, it was a pleasure to chat with you Ms. B!
Jill Barnett - - from spider-ntc-ta032.proxy.aol.com on 7/29 at 10:05pm EST

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