Harlequin Blaze Authors 10/25/01 at Writerspace

Harlequin Blaze Authors 10/25/01

Lee-Moderator - Hi Everyone! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
BadBarb - no, I was watching Friends
Lori - don't tell me Jamie--i tape it to watch with my hubby when he comes home at midnight
beacyn - nope...i'm at work...sigh
Cambrie - No
Lee-Moderator - Janelle wrote saying she'd be a little late so we'll go ahead and begin.
Lori - I'll close my eyes if you'll wanna talk about Survivor
cindypk13 - No, it's not on yet (and I only watch it after Friends)
Jamie Denton - BabBarb - oooh, I hate when that happens. I so wanted to watch Friends, but I admit it, I'm a Survivor addict
Cathy Y - LOL! Plenty o' Cathy to go 'round, believe me.
Lee-Moderator - Before we begin with the Qs and As, Jamie and Isabel, could each of you please tell us a little bit about your latest release? Jamie, would you like to lead the way please? And then we'll hear from Isabel.
Deanna - logged on. - from 64.12.101.151 on 10/25 at 9:03pm EST
Cissy - that's why god made VCRs Jamie!
Jamie Denton - I won't ruin for anyone, but it's a good one tonight. Intense.
BadBarb - this is the last year for Friends so Im watching every episode
cindypk13 - Please don't talk about Survivor (or Friends). It's only 6:15 herre
BonnieJean - nope...I don't get to watch tv anymore...my kids always have it...
Jamie Denton - Sure!
Lee-Moderator - Hi Deanna! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
Jamie Denton - FBI agent Chase Bracken has the unsavory job of tracking down a rogue agent. His only solid lead is the guy's sisters, sexy Dr. Dee Romine. Working undercover, Bracken will do anything to get his man...or woman. Including making love to the delectable doctor.
Jamie Denton - Dee is overwhelmed by the new "high school coach" in town. Chase seems to have infiltrated her life, her senses, her body...in a short time. She's breaking her own rules and letting emotions sway her. And Dee's certain he's done the same. Yet something doesn't add up.
Kay Anne - logged on - from 24.26.148.145 on 10/25 at 9:05pm EST
Jamie Denton - Cissy- One must learn how to program said VCR first!
BadBarb - hi kayanne
Jamie Denton - Isabel, your turn <g>
Lee-Moderator - Hi Kay Anne! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
beacyn - lol
Zyx1q2a3z - logged on. - from 152.163.204.193 on 10/25 at 9:05pm EST
IsabelSharpe - The Wild Side is about a good girl looking for man trouble who finds it (and how!), and a bad girl looking to escape man trouble who finds more trouble than she ever dreamed ofd.
IsabelSharpe - dreamed ofd? what am I a writer?
Lee-Moderator - Hi Zyx! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
BadBarb - ?
Sabrina Moses - Sounds , Isabel
BadBarb - hi zyx
JayCraft - ?
Zyx1q2a3z - hi
IsabelSharpe - Thanks, Sabrina! I had a blast writing it.
Lee-Moderator - Okay, let's begin with the Qs and As now. BadBarb has the first question (JayCraft in line)
Sabrina Moses - I'll bet you did, Isabel
cindypk13 - Isabel, I judged a ms. of yours in the GH years ago (and gave it a high mark). It was called Diamond Island or something like that.
BadBarb - Isabel, does The Wild Side have two storylines in it?
Darlene has timed out.
Barbs - I've read Jamie's and Janelle's but not Isabel's-I'm looking forward to it though
IsabelSharpe - no kidding, cindy! That one got rejected. I was so sad!
IsabelSharpe - BadBarb, yes. One dominates, but they are both full love stories
cindypk13 - Yeah, but look where you are now. Congrats!
IsabelSharpe - One relationship is hot, the other sweet
Cambrie - Oh Isabell I enjoyed your first Blaze book. Last Saturday night.
IsabelSharpe - Thanks, Cindy!
IsabelSharpe - Cambrie, thanks!
cindypk13 - ?
Lee-Moderator - JayCraft has the next question. (no one in line)
IsabelSharpe - I am just about to start another one.
JayCraft - Isabel, do you find Blaze easier or harder to write than Duets?
BadBarb - brb
Sabrina Moses - Go Isabel!
IsabelSharpe - Thanks, Sabrina!
Lori - Good question Jaycraft
Jane Sullivan has timed out.
Sabrina Moses - Encouragment is always needed
IsabelSharpe - Jaycraft, good question! The Blaze was my first attempt at a longer book, so I'd say it was harder, just because there was more to keep track of.
Cathy Y - ?
IsabelSharpe - But I think it was partly because I'd written four Duets so they come more easily to me
Denise - ?
IsabelSharpe - I think any book is hard while you're writing it, then afterwards you forget. Like labor. And it seems to have been the best time of your life.
Lee-Moderator - Cindy has the next question. (Cathy, Denise, Lee in line)
Lori - Isabel, really? I'm finding sexy much easier than funny, even though Duets are shorter
beacyn1 - logged on. - from 130.111.129.23 on 10/25 at 9:11pm EST
cindypk13 - Isabel, is one the sec character's story, then?
cindypk13 - Lori, as in Wilde?
redellen - logged on. - from 205.188.196.37 on 10/25 at 9:11pm EST
Lee-Moderator - wb Bea in Hot Pink! Suits you!
Lori - cindy, yup
IsabelSharpe - Cindy, yes. The hero and secondary hero are buddies. The two ladies get tangled up in the suspense plot
BadBarb - Lori Wilde is an ok writer
Lee-Moderator - Hi Redellen! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
Sabrina Moses - Oh! That LORI
BadBarb - hi redellen
Sabrina Moses - Lori
beacyn1 - thanks...lee..sorry about that...one of the student dared to tought my computer...*weg*
Deanna - ooh I'm from OK!
Lori - thanks barb. better than terrible
cindypk13 - Thanks, Isabel. Hi, Lori!
Missy - logged on. - from 216.221.108.51 on 10/25 at 9:13pm EST
BadBarb - LOL no prob Lori
beacyn1 - touch my computer and close my window here...
BadBarb - hi Missy //wve
Lori - His sabrina
redellen - hi hope everbody doing fine tonight
Darlene - - from 64.12.104.44 on 10/25 at 9:13pm EST
Lee-Moderator - Denise has the next question. (Lee in line)
Jamie Denton -
Lee-Moderator - Hi Missy! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
Denise - Jamie, this is for you. How many lines are you writing for right now?
Cathy Y - Hi, Redellen, Missy...
Missy - ?
Sabrina Moses - ?
Jamie Denton - Denise - Temptation and Blaze are my two primary lines. My editor is attempting to convince me to write a Temptation lead in for a double Duets. And then there's teh occasional American Romance.
redellen - hi cathy y
Denise - wow, busy lady!
Jamie Denton - Sometimes too busy
beacyn has timed out.
Lee-Moderator - sorry - my computer just burped. Cathy Y, did you send up a ? or am I mistaken?
Sabrina Moses - Busy busy
Cathy Y - Lee -- you missed me, but I figured I can talk to 'em anytime...
cindypk13 - ?
Kay Anne - - from 24.26.148.145 on 10/25 at 9:16pm EST
BadBarb - did your computer excuse itself?
Lee-Moderator - I'm so sorry! Please go ahead with your question now.
beacyn1 - lol good one BadBarb.
BadBarb - Lee isnt sorry Cathy
Cathy Y - I was just going to ask a question they posed in the Temptation chat: how would you advise a writer on writing those steamy scenes?
Lee-Moderator - yes BadBarb. I smacked it anyway. <g>
BadBarb - thanks bea
Lori - Hmm, I see why Barb is bad, she's a mixer.
BonnieJean -
Lee-Moderator - LOL
Jamie Denton - Research, research and more research
BadBarb - hehe, hey I earned that nickname
IsabelSharpe - Oh, Cathy. Hmmm. Well I'd say write whatever is sexy to you. Don't write what you think other people will find sexy or it won't ring true. Make sure the heat flows out of the characters and what they want, not your desire to turn on the reader.
Lee-Moderator - LOL Jamie!!
Cathy Y - ROFL Jamie!
Deanna - lol
IsabelSharpe - :[
Jamie Denton - Seriously, don't be caged in by your own comfort zone. It's tough being innovative when it comes to writing love scenes. I mean really? How many ways can part a be inserted into part b?
Lee-Moderator - Missy has the next question. (Sabrina, Cindy, Lee in line)
cindypk13 - My husband could tell you, Jamie
IsabelSharpe - ooooh, lucky Cindy!
Cel has timed out.
Jamie Denton - lol
BonnieJean - @ Cindy
Lee-Moderator - ROFL, Cindy!!
cindypk13 - Unfortunately, he's out of town.
BonnieJean - but its what happens before the "a" into "b" that get you there
Deanna - hehe
cindypk13 - There's always the phone
Lee-Moderator - Missy? are you still with us?
Jamie Denton - BonnieJean - Exactly
IsabelSharpe - Bonnie, so true! If you're a woman. Men just need to know B exists and they're 9/10s of the way there.
BonnieJean - hahahahahaha
beacyn1 - Bonnie....LOL
Jamie Denton - Lee - I think Missy left us.
Lee-Moderator - Okay, we'll come back to Missy......... Sabrina has the next question. (Cindy, Lee in line)
dopple - 9/10ths?
Sabrina Moses - Do you ladies find yourself writing two stories at the same time? Or is it just me? I 'jump around' a lot and find it hard to stick with one story at a time
dopple - how about 99.9%
Cathy Y - Dopple: if you're lucky.
Denise - dopple, especially those under the age of 21
IsabelSharpe - Sabrina, I'm an a-z one-book-at-a-time writer. Because I find a lot of the work I do on books is the mental time between bouts at the computer. I couldn't juggle two stories in my head without losing what precious little is left of my mind.
dopple - now, that's true from both cathy and Denise
cindypk13 - LOL Denise
Jamie Denton - Sabrina - I'm too linear a writer to write more than one story at a time. That doesn't mean however that the next one isn't percolating or that I'm not doing research on the next book.
beacyn1 - A .....B men and women???? huh...ok i'm lost now....sighing
Helena - - from 64.12.101.176 on 10/25 at 9:23pm EST
IsabelSharpe - (small kids at home, don'tcha know)
Lee-Moderator - Hi Helena! Welcome to the monthly Harlequin Blaze chat! Tonight we're chatting with romance authors Janelle Denison, Jamie Denton and Isabel Sharpe about their latest releases. Please note that protocol is in effect. Feel free to make comments at anytime, but for any questions you would like to ask the authors, please type a '?' to join the queue and I'll call on you in turn. Thanks and enjoy!
Cissy - Hey Helena
Helena -
Lori - Hi Helena
Sabrina Moses - Helena
BonnieJean - Hi Helena
Denise - just wait, Isabel. youwon't have any mind left at all by the time they leave. <G>
Cathy Y - Hi, Helena. Cool logo thingy.
IsabelSharpe - Hi Helena!
Sabrina Moses - Isabel, did you get my question?
IsabelSharpe - Denise, you mean it gets WORSE?
Missy has timed out.
redellen - ?
Jamie Denton - Denise - Amen to that!
IsabelSharpe - Sabrina, yes, I answered it
Denise - oh, lots worse. but at least grandkids are fun and a great revenge
Lee-Moderator - Cindy has the next question. (Redellen, Lee in line)
Sabrina Moses - Oh ....sorry
cindypk13 - Jamie and Isabel, who are your editors and what are they like to work with?
IsabelSharpe - Denise--I can imagine. When I had my kids, every time I saw my mom I just wanted to apologize . . .
IsabelSharpe - No problem, Sabrina! Good question!
Barbs - I agree Denise grandchildren are great
IsabelSharpe - Cindy, I have Susan Sheppard. I can't praise her highly enough for her faith in me and the way she leaves my stuff the way I wrote it. I adore her.
Sabrina Moses - @Isabel's remark about her mom
Jamie Denton - Cindy - When I first started with Temptation, Birgit Davis Todd was my editor, however this past year, I've been working with Jennifer Tam who is an absolute angel.
Janelle Denison - logged on - from 63.25.57.128 on 10/25 at 9:26pm EST
Jamie Denton - I miss the day to day contact with Birgit, but she couldn't have passed me on to a better editor.
BonnieJean - hi Janelle
Janelle Denison - Hey, Everyone! Better late than never
Lori - Hi Janelle1
Lee-Moderator - Hi Janelle!
Denise - Hi Janelle
Cathy Y - Hi, Janelle!
Lee-Moderator - Glad you made it!
Lori - I'm in the middle of Heat Waves--fabulous
Sabrina Moses - Janelle
Helena - Janelle
beacyn1 - Hi Janelle
IsabelSharpe - I think every one who writes for Harlequin Toronto loves their editors. Or if they don't they're not complaining to me! Wonderful bunch of women.
cindypk13 - Thanks, Jamie and Isabel. I've had positive experiences with them both in contests.
IsabelSharpe - hi Janelle
Jamie Denton - Hey Janellie!!
Janelle Denison - Hi, everyone! Sorry about being late! I had an appointment I couldn't cancel. But I'm glad I made it!
Lee-Moderator - We'll pause with the Qs and As for a few minutes..........
Sabrina Moses - Glad you made it too!
IsabelSharpe - cindy--great, that means you finalled!
cindypk13 - Hi, Janelle. I'm reading your book right now and loving it!
Cissy - Hi Janelle!
Lee-Moderator - Janelle, please tell us about HEAT WAVES
Janelle Denison - What did I mess? Were you all being bad while I was gone?
Cambrie - Hi Janelle. Thanks for RWA Workbook and your surprize gift of your first City
Denise - Jamie, I meant to tell you that your books are a huge hit at Indiana U of Pennsylvania
Janelle Denison - Oops, Miss!
Lee-Moderator - and then we'll resume with the questions.
cindypk13 - Isabel, yes, that was last year in the Orange Rose, adn she requested it. But it got sent to someone else, who rejected it.
Janelle Denison - Thanks Cindy -- I hope you enjoy HEAT WAVES!
Cambrie - in the City Blaze
Cambrie - in the City Blaze
Jamie Denton - Now who do I have to thank for that? Denise?
IsabelSharpe - Cindy--ewwww! But that kind of encouragement is all you need to keep trying! Getting that close is a good sign.
Denise - don't look at me. I didn't want your books to leave here. Still don't have them all back!
cindypk13 - I have an idea for a Blaze radio station story, Janelle, and now I've read two in the last months! I really want to make sure I don't duplicate ideas.
IsabelSharpe - cindy--sometimes it just takes hitting the right story
cindypk13 - Thanks, Isabel. FWIW, the rejecting ed is letting me revise (but I had to ask)
Lori - Cindy--yipes, I have a radio station in my March Blaze but it's not the central issue in the story
Deanna has timed out.
IsabelSharpe - cindy--you go!
Sabrina Moses - Well, that's good news, cindy
cindypk13 - Isabel, or the right ed. I seem to do better with certain HQ eds than others.
Janelle Denison - About HEAT WAVES -- Radio personality Erica McCree really likes sex. Talking about sex, that is. But she's more than a little hot and bothered when one of her regular listeners, Ian Carlisle, decides to turn up the heat. Ian's deep sexy voice quickly seduces Erica's imagination. Little does she guess that he's planning to seduce the rest of her, too . . .
BonnieJean - oooooooooooooo
cindypk13 - Lori, I'm thinking of switching to a TV show
Lee-Moderator - Terrific story!! <g>
IsabelSharpe - cindy--I think that's the case with everyone! Different people, different tastes . . .
Lee-Moderator - Okay,...... Qs and As again.......
Lee-Moderator - Redellen has the next question. (Lee in line)
BonnieJean - I have to find that bok Janelle
Janelle Denison - Cindy -- I think a dozen different writers can come up with the initial premise, but the end result will be a dozen different stories!
BonnieJean - oops...book
redellen - jamie, isabel, what is the name of your new releases and the name of the next books to come out
cindypk13 - Thanks, Sabrina.
Lori - Cindy--regarding the radio--I think there's something really sexy about anonmyous voices on the air waves
Sabrina Moses - I agree, Janelle
Sabrina Moses - That's what happens when GMTA
cindypk13 - Janelle, true, I'm just wondering if the line is getting inundated with radio stories (I've always wanted to do one)
Jamie Denton - Redellen - SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY is my Blaze for this month. Next up for me will be a Temptation "Heat", UNDER THE COVERS in December.
Denise - Lori, it's like telling your life's story to a stranger on a train or bus
beacyn1 - oh me too Lori...sigh...i have this one book by Lori Foster that is sooooo hot...atlease for me it is.
IsabelSharpe - Redellen, The Wild Side Blaze is on the shelves now. My next releases will be a 3-book miniseries called The Manhunters. Hot On His Heels, Temptation April 2002 and a Double Duets in May--One Fine Prey/Two Catch a Fox.
cindypk13 - Lori, I agree!
Deanna - logged on. - from 152.163.195.184 on 10/25 at 9:33pm EST
Lee-Moderator - Lee has the next question. (no one in line)
Lori - beacyn1--Lori Foster is always hot.
Lee-Moderator - This is for Janelle...... How did you come up with the character/personality for your hero? Was it a situation or a particular person who inspired Ian's character?
Lee-Moderator - wb Deanna!
Deanna - thanks!

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