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| Sarah Bird 10/24/01 |
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SaraR - A big welcome to Sarah Bird (one of my favorite authors)
Go on to Part 2
Lolaaa - logged on. - from 64.160.14.116 on 10/24 at 10:05pm EST
torycates - oops, trusty Earthlink just bounced me then I couldn't get back in as Sarah Bird, so I'm gonna be torycates. sorry. it's me
SaraR - 
- from 4.33.100.182 on 10/24 at 10:05pm EST
SaraR - logged on. - from 4.33.100.182 on 10/24 at 10:06pm EST
SaraR - A big welcome to Sarah Bird, one of my favorite authors.
torycates - I told you I was a chat room virgin and now you see why
SaraR - you just write too slow!
Lolaaa - 
gerri - - from 172.134.201.38 on 10/24 at 10:06pm EST
SaraR - hi, Lolaaa, Our guest tonight is Sarah Bird. Her "...latest novel, THE YOKOTA OFFICERS CLUB, is for anyone who enjoys reading about great loves, broken hearts, oddball families, sibling rivalry, motherhood at its best (and worst), and life in the trenches from the point of view of a military daughter. Laughter comes often and is uncontrolled. The compulsion to read segments out loud (even if no one is listening) is overwhelming. And it helps to have a box of tissue handy, as Bird recounts great tragedy as well." Jeanne Ray, author of Julie and Romeo, for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. We are operating on protocol, so please type a 
and I will call on you in turn.
SaraR - Sarah, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your new book?
gerri - 
- from 205.188.195.56 on 10/24 at 10:07pm EST
torycates - Well, like my heroine, I did come from a large, wacky Catholic Air Force family
SaraR - wb, Gerri
SuzeK - logged on. - from 4.33.100.182 on 10/24 at 10:09pm EST
SuzeK - hi,
torycates - Have to say it again, trusty Earthlink just bounced me then I couldn't get back in as Sarah Bird, so I'm gonna be torycates. sorry. it's me
SaraR - and?? tell us more, Tory/Sarah
Helena - 
- from 64.12.101.159 on 10/24 at 10:10pm EST
SaraR - did you spend time in Okinawa too?
Helena - all 
torycates - I started out my writing career as Tory Cates writing Silhouette Special Editions. Then I based a novel called "Boyfriend School" on that experience
torycates - Yes, my family was stationed on Okinawa and Yokota Air Base in Japan
SaraR - welcome, Our guest tonight is Sarah Bird. Her latest novel, THE YOKOTA OFFICERS CLUB is now available. We are operating on protocol, so please type a and I will call on you in turn.
SaraR - oh, yes! and that was my first book of yours! You were talked about on RRA-L for so long I had to hunt that book down!
SarahBird has timed out.
torycates - I adapated my novel, Boyfriend School for a film that had the disastrous title of Don't Tell Her It's Me with Steve Guttenberg and Shelley Long
torycates - What is RRa-L
SaraR - Romance Readers Anonymous List -- it is a list started by librarians to help each other find romance fiction for their libraries.
BethS has timed out.
Cissy - why was the title a disaster, Sarah?
torycates - Ohmigod and they were talking about me!! very cool
SaraR - you are infamous there, Sarah
torycates - The title Don't Tell Her It's Me is totally forgettable.
SaraR - an icon, of sorts
Rocky - logged on. - from 166.82.53.193 on 10/24 at 10:14pm EST
SaraR - it sounds like a teenie bopper movie, I am afraid (I have a teen who sees movies by titles like that)
Rocky - Hello
torycates - They're showing the movie now on cable under my title Boyfriend School. sure wish i was getting residuals but the company that made the film is long bankrupt
SaraR - welcome Rocky, Our guest tonight is Sarah Bird. Her latest novel, THE YOKOTA OFFICERS CLUB is now available. We are operating on protocol, so please type a and I will call on you in turn.
Rocky - Oh
SaraR - ah, I noticed it had the book title.
Cissy - oh wow, that sucks, Sarah
torycates - jeez, i WISH teeny boppers would have gone to see it!
Rocky - Have you read it?
torycates - Hollywood is diabolical but they've paid my bills for most of my writing life
SaraR - yes, teen boppers spend beaucoup on movies, don't they?
Lolaaa has timed out.
SaraR - really? I noticed in IMDB that you are a casting director. What exactly is that?
BethS - logged on. - from 66.79.24.96 on 10/24 at 10:16pm EST
Rocky - - from 166.82.53.193 on 10/24 at 10:16pm EST
Martha - ?
torycates - Oh no, the OTHER Sarah Bird, apparently there is a woman in London who is a lesbian casting director. not me.
Cissy - ?
torycates - But good research on the IMDB
torycates - Internet Movie Data Base. very great source
Cissy - "Lesbian casting director" -- she casts lesbians or she is a lesbian? 
SaraR - ah, I wondered 
SaraR - Martha has the first question (Cissy in line)
torycates - I was told she specializes in lesbian films. don't know her.
SaraR - and I love IMDB. Wonderful thing!
SaraR - well, we will have to squash that rumor about you then. not being a casting director that is!
torycates - am I supposed to be seeing Martha's question?
gerri - - from 205.188.195.56 on 10/24 at 10:19pm EST
SaraR - it was said you went off to Hollywood to write and cast movies. that is why no new books
Martha - hi, I just wanted to say that I didn't know you had a new book out, and I have it on order now. Like Sara said, you are famous in romance circles.
torycates - well that just tickles me pink!! I am so deeply grateful to romance.
Martha - my question, why did you write the Boyfriend School and does your new book have a relationship in it?
Martha - Sorry, I am typing slow tonight -- broken pinkie
torycates - I wrote the Boyfriend School because I got so damn tired of the incredible amount of condescension heaped on the genre...
torycates - ...by people who had no idea how hard they were and how difficult the craft was to master...
SaraR - ah, still true I am afraid, even with Nora Roberts in the NYT list every week!
torycates - ...my new book has tons of relationships in it, not any paricularly romantic ones though.
torycates - broken pinkie. ouch. you're a trooper
Martha - so true, most people think we are idiots I guess when they see we read romance books. Thank goodness for the Internet where we can find people to talk to about romance.
zyg1q2a3z - ok
torycates - does cissy have a question? is my computer just real slow?
SaraR - Well, you have kept your trademark humor, because I laughed out loud when reading TOC. I even tortured my daughter with sections of it!
SaraR - Cissy has the next question
torycates - hey, story about my first exposure to the genre. i went to the first RWA at the Woodlands in Houston and buddied up with the only...
Cissy - yep, Sarah - I'm just waiting for Sara to call on me 
SaraR - I did!! ... but waiting for the story!
torycates - other woman there wearing pants. she'd just published her first book, Irish Thoroughbred and her name was Ellie Aufdem Brinke. and her pen name is.....?
SaraR - the only what?
SaraR - with la Nora?
torycates - Yell it out!! You know it.
torycates - Bien sur
SaraR - - from 4.33.100.182 on 10/24 at 10:26pm EST
SaraR - logged on. - from 4.33.100.182 on 10/24 at 10:26pm EST
Cissy - okay, I have 2 questions actually. (1) Did you write the screenplay for DON'T TELL HER IT'S ME and (2) Can you tell us a bit more about Yokota Officers Club? Does it follow one particular character?
SaraR - REALLY? wow!!!
torycates - in the next five years i wrote five Special Eds and Nora wrote SIXTY!!! Showed me I wasn't gonna burn up the genre
torycates - I did write the screenplay for DONT TELL
SuzeK - ?
torycates - 2. Yokota is my big mushy valentine to military families and it centers on a true incident in my life...
torycates - ...when i went to visit my family stationed on Okinawa and won a dance contest...
torycates - ...so I toured the bases around Tokyo with this fifth rate Borscht belt comedian who thought he was Bob Hope and I was gonna be Joey Heatherton!!
SaraR - ah, you weren't Joey Heatherton?
Cissy - wow, what a wild experience, Sarah
torycates - not quite. it started out to be a fairly straightforward funny book but got into some serious stuff about military dads and so on
torycates - it was a totally wild experience. i was 18 and completely naive.
SaraR - and although I was only a military wife, I really enjoyed Yokota Officers Club. It had bits that I recognized from the late 70s when I lived in Germany. Different places but felt like the same people
Cissy - is it available now, Sarah?
SaraR - SuzeK has the next question
Lilliana - logged on. - from 66.92.152.114 on 10/24 at 10:31pm EST
torycates - yeah, i toured this summer and that's what i kept hearing, that essentially, that world is still like the one i described
SuzeK - hi, Sarah. I read TBS too. I didn't know you were also Tory Cates. Have you ever considered doing more romances?
SaraR - I am just pissed that you toured up here in Dallas and I didn't know about it! I would have been there for ya!
torycates - you know, really, i did look at nora writing 60 in the time it took me to write 5 and i just knew i wasn't ever gonna pay my rent that way
SaraR - and the military world is still like your descriptions. I asked dh about it (he was a MB too)
torycates - Hey, Sara R, i'm comin back to fort worth on nov 3!!!
SaraR - really? where? I can do Ft Worth!
SaraR - give me details -- you have my email address!
torycates - YAYYY!! The borders on Coit? IS that right? I'll check. the wonderful manager there has built up a little cult following for me.
SaraR - are you going to do Yokota for film? it would make a great film
SuzeK - .
