Cissy - Dixie!!
Mac - It sure did...a rollercoaster ride of a read.
Dixie Kane - HI
O - EWWWWWWW Texas
Mary f - Hello Dixie
Dixie Kane - Who is here?
Dixie Kane - Hi, Mary
Cissy - Just a few of us right now, Dixie - there's be more here in the next 10 minutes or so
Dixie Kane - Who said ewww, Texas? I'm from Texas
Mac - HOwdy
Dixie Kane - Howdy, How y'all? How's your mom and them? That's Texas talk.
O - Me there are too many writers from Texas
Cissy - Dixie, O has a phobia about Texas. Seems all the authors she talks to are from Texas and she can't find any from Rhode Island, where she lives
Cissy - LOL, Dixie
Dixie Kane - But I live in Louisiana, now
Mac - I'm in Arkansas, so I'm sort of next door...lol
Mary f - Howdy back atcha Dixie!
Dixie Kane - There is an author from Rhode Island.
Cissy - not much of a difference in some areas, Dixie
O - Do you have a accent Dixie?
Dixie Kane - Hi, Mac
Sara - hi,
Dixie Kane - I dont' think I have an accent. I can fake one, if I have to. But I've lived all over, so I think I lost that Texas twang
Sara - O complaining aboug Texas AGAIN?
Mac - Howdy, all
alex - TX is a big state so maybe that's why so many
Dixie Kane - Hi, Ashley, Hi Alex
Ashley - Hi ALL.... .......O there are a few authors from Rhode Island.....Kristine Rolfonso (sp) she writes for Temp.
Cissy - Yup, Sara
Ashley - Hi Dixie......Texas is my DREAM state to visit!!!!!!!
alex - iHi - guess what - i'm in TX!
Sara - figures
Dixie Kane - I was born in Hamilton, in the middle of the state
Cissy - that's okay, WE like Texas, alex!
O - Thanks Ashley i will write her name down
alex - hahahaha... i like it too
Sara - but Dixie is from Louisiana now, so, she doesn't claim Texas anymore
Dixie Kane - I know Kristine--She
Dixie Kane - is the RI author I was thinking of
Ashley - O, I'm from Little Rhody too.....
Cissy - Sara I thought it was "once from Texas, always from Texas"
Dixie Kane - I use Texas settings for some of my books. The one I'm working on now is set in Houston
Ashley - And I'm trying to become another....
Cissy - I also hear that if you've ever changed planes in Dallas, you can claim you're from Texas...
Dixie Kane - I have an uncle who has a ranch. Handy for writing cowboy books
alex - houston is great
Mac - LOL
O - Where do you live Ashley
Dixie Kane - What do you write, Ashley?
Mac - My book is set half in Texas, half in Memphis...lol
Ashley - ....Dixie...my main reason for going there....YEEE-HAAAA
Murialisa - hi
Cissy - Hi Muri
Celeste - Hi everyone
Cissy - Hi Cel
Dixie Kane - Hi, All
Mary f - Hello Muri and Cel (s)
Ashley - Dixie, I have a published book out but not romance and SIL just sent me a rejection letter for my MS but wants something else....So that novel I am sending to Blaze and will work up a new one for SIM
Ashley - O...I'm from east providence...how about you?
Dixie Kane - It took me six years and three completed manuscripts to get published
Ashley - Hi Cel?????? Stranger..
Mary f - Hello Delyn and Bad Barb (s)
BadBarb - hi ashley,celeste,cissy,delyn,dixie,mac,mary,muri,o,sara and alex
BadBarb - hi leena //ave
O - I am from Providence we are close
Cissy - Hi to everyone coming in!
BadBarb - oops
RobinDOwens - Hey, all.
Mary f - Hello Leena
BadBarb - hi robin
Ashley - Dixie, who was your first publishing house?
BadBarb - I missed you last night
Mary f - Hello Robin!
alex - all of a sudden it got BUSY in here
Leena - Hi Barb and everyone
Dixie Kane - I am so glad you call came. It would be embarrasing to have a chat and no one to chat with
Delyn - Hi Maryf, Good Evening Everyone
Cissy - We're just about to get started everyone
Dixie Kane - Silhouette Romance--as Linda Lewis
RobinDOwens - Had another Thanksgiving Day party with close friends. Have cold.
BadBarb - Dixie are you the unknown relative of Erica Kane on All My Children?
BadBarb -
Mac - HIya, Robin
O - i was ask that Barb
BadBarb - Im sorry your name made me think of AMC
Dixie Kane - No. I got my name out of the pantry--Dixie Kane is my third pseudonym
RobinDOwens - Hey, Mac, how's geek?
Mary f - LMAO Barb
Leena - Hope you feel better soon, Robin
Dixie Kane - I'm named after Dixie Crystal Sugar
Mac - Just fine.... ....can't wait until next weekend so I can see him.
O - What is your real name Diixie
BadBarb - Dixie Kane in a pantry? hmm that has possibilities
Cissy - Welcome everyone to our chat with Dixie Kane! We're talking with Dixie tonight about her new book DREAMING OF YOU. We'll be operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
RobinDOwens - Thanks Leena. Off to work tomorrow.
BadBarb - you know Im running out of closets
Dixie Kane - Who's geek? Is there romance in the air?
Cissy - hold onto your quesitons, guys - I'm about get us started!
Dixie Kane - O--my real name is Linda Kay West
Mac - uh-huh, he's absolutely wonderful...even if he did send me an ugly ole tree for my b-day...lol
Cissy - Welcome everyone to our chat with Dixie Kane! We're talking to Dixie tonight about her new release, DREAMING OF YOU. We're operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
O -
Delyn - Mac, Is the "ugly ole tree" still alive?
Cissy - Dixie, before we go on to Q&A, can we get you to tell us a bit about DREAMING OF YOU?
Mac - Yes, it is, strangely enough...LOL
Dixie Kane - DOY has a ghost, a French Quarter ghost. I lived in the Quarter for five years, and the ghost is based on the one in our apartment
Dixie Kane - He sneezed
RobinDOwens - LOL
Dixie Kane - The heroine is a mask maker and the hero is her landlord. He puts the building up for sale and the tenants revolt
Delyn - Some ghosts are just so inconsiderate!
Dixie Kane - They haunt the building to scare off buyers; then the real ghost takes over
RobinDOwens - Revolting tenants.
BadBarb - oooh you lived in the French Quarter?
Dixie Kane - A psychic, a female impersonator and a retired history professor, and the mask maker
Cissy - somehow I'm sure this landlord is going to lose...
Dixie Kane - Yes, Bad Barb, and I lived to write about it.
Dixie Kane - No, he wins.
O - The French Quarter sounds like a fun place
RobinDOwens - Ah, a win-win situation
Sara - well, you got to hand it to the tenants, though, they started with other remedies to run off prospective buyers -- the air conditioning, the electrical wires, the plumbing
Lydia F - Hello! Everyone
Dixie Kane - It was
Cissy - Hi Lydia Welcome to our chat with Dixie Kane! We're talking to Dixie tonight about her new release, DREAMING OF YOU. We're operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
BadBarb - I loved New Orleans
Mary f - Hello Lydia
BadBarb - Hi lydia
Sara - cost poor Nick a fortune and the ghost was the only thing money couldn't fix
RobinDOwens - Hi, Lydia!
Sara - I did like that part, Dixie
Dixie Kane - Don't forget the Formosan termites!
Cissy - Okay, let's go on to questions for Dixie. Remember, if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Cissy - O has the first question (no one in line)
Cissy - Formosan termites?
O - Did you ever see a ghost is that why you wrote about it ?
RobinDOwens - HI, Sha.
BadBarb - hi sha
Sara - oh, yes, the termites! Formosan! I chuckled at that one (parked outside Frye's -- made dh wait until I came to a "stopping" point)
Lydia F - HI Sha
BadBarb - ?
Dixie Kane - I didn't see him, but I heard him. I was sleeping and he sneezed right next to my ear.
BadBarb - I want to get this one, it sounds good
BadBarb - eww I hope he used kleenex
Cissy - Hi sha Welcome to our chat with Dixie Kane! We're talking to Dixie tonight about her new release, DREAMING OF YOU. We're operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Dixie Kane - I raced up the spiral staircase to my sister's room and told her there was someone in my bedroom. But there wasn't.
O - did you say Bless you
Sara - you weren't fulfilling Nick's fantasy, were you, Dixie?
Dixie Kane - After that, we heard him sneeze and cough from time to time
Sara - ?
RobinDOwens - Poor thing.
sha - Hi all.
Dixie Kane - The ghost in my book died of pneumonia--No, Sara
Cissy - BadBarb has the next question (Sara in line)
BadBarb - Dixie, this sounds like a fun book, are you planning anymore set in the French Quarter?
Dixie Kane - Our spiral staircase was the model for the one in the book, however
O -
Sara - ah, good, Dixie, didn't want you to shock your sister....although I did enjoy Nick's fantasy of the venus rising from the trapdoor
Dixie Kane - Probably. It's a neat place
Dixie Kane - Actually, the next book, Chasing Lily has one scene in the Quarter
RobinDOwens - ?
Cissy - Sara has the next question (O, RobinD in line)
Delyn - ?
Sara - Dixie, I had a lot of fun reading DREAMING OF YOU this weekend
BadBarb - hi caffey
Dixie Kane - Sara?
Sara - it is fast paced, funny and sexy! Great reading!
BadBarb - I really want to get this one
Cissy - Hi Caffey! Welcome to our chat with Dixie Kane! We're talking to Dixie tonight about her new release, DREAMING OF YOU. We're operating on protocol, so if you have questions for Dixie, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Dixie Kane - Good, I'm glad you enjoyed it
Sara - now, my question --
Lydia F - Hi Caffey
Mary f - Hello Caffey
Caffey - Hey, all
BadBarb - hi simpson, is this Maggie or Lisa?
BadBarb - oops I mean Marge
BadBarb -
Sara - did you hvae to buy a bunch of masks to do research? I love shopping in the French Quarter!
SIMPSON - LOL...very funny! (and it would be Maggie thank you)
Sara - could be a good excuse, research!
Caffey - Hi Dixie!
Lydia F - Hi Simpson
SIMPSON - everyone!
RobinDOwens - Hey Caffe
Mary f - Hello Simpson
BadBarb - ?
Sara - and did you find a Sex Kitten mask?
SIMPSON - evening Cissy....
BadBarb - sex kitten mask???
Dixie Kane - I knew a mask maker who made the kinds of masks my heroine makes
RobinDOwens - Caffie
Dixie Kane - I made up the sex kitten mask
Caffey - Hi Robin (sry about earlier... <g>
RobinDOwens - Hi, Simpson, CAFFEY!
Sara - ah, Nick's dreams, Barb! They involve an animal trainer, black leather, a velvet whip and a sex kitten mask. Oh, yeah!
RobinDOwens - Caffey -- just sent you an email.
RobinDOwens - I know Buffalo.
BadBarb - ooh I take it this is Sara?
RobinDOwens - Whew! Some hot dreams.....
Lydia F - Oh I can't wait to get this book.
BadBarb - I need something steamy it is sooo cold here
Caffey - its nasty here!
BadBarb - me too
Cissy - LOL, Sara!
Dixie Kane - Hence the title, Dreaming of You
BadBarb - Caffey how cold are you in Buffalo?
Caffey - I love the cover!
RobinDOwens - Keep warm!
Cissy - O has the next question (RobinD, Delyn, BadBarb in line)
Caffey - 20's and a white out
Sara - along with a visitor arriving in his bedroom sans clothes via an iron circular staircase and a trap door....slowly rising to fulfil his fantastical dreams. (There was other "rising" but I am not allowed to go into detail during this chat or cissy murders moi)
BadBarb - wow
BadBarb - how much snow caffey?
O - So is Nick a slum landlord?
Dixie Kane - Can we tell them about the missing condoms?
BadBarb - why not Sara? Is it a hard subject?
Dixie Kane - Nick is an absentee landlord--he lives in New York
Caffey - lol Sara
Cissy - oh yes, tell about the missing condoms!
RobinDOwens -
BadBarb - ooh missing condoms?
Sara - rising object but not doughy
Dixie Kane - But the Quarter is not a slum
Caffey - Barb
Dixie Kane - The ghost moved them
Sara - Nick is not a slum guy, he inherits the building from his grand pere
Cissy - it's an old-fashioned ghost?
RobinDOwens - Now that's major interference!
O -
Mary f - I have to get this book!
BadBarb - Sara, is it bigger then a breadstick?
sha - I'm having a hard time following this conversation
Sara - yes, Antoine didn't approve of birth control, I imagine!
Caffey - me too Mary
BadBarb -
BadBarb - oh Dixie, Im sorry can I be bad for your chat? I forgot to ask you
Sara - or shaving or watching the clock
Dixie Kane - Antoine ( the ghost) wanted Nick and maggie to get together. H
Dixie Kane - Antoine ( the ghost) wanted Nick and maggie to get together. H
Dixie Kane - He was trying to help!
Dixie Kane - It's okay with me, Bad Barb
Cissy - RobinD has the next question (Delyn, BadBarb, Oin line)
BadBarb - thanks Dixie
SIMPSON - can someone donate the book to a very poor book lover??? me???
Sara - oh, and poor Maggie's mom!! Antoine was MEAN to her!
RobinDOwens - So where are the next two set?
BadBarb - Simpson, I dont share I have sharing issues
Dixie Kane - He was desperate
SIMPSON - Ok, well, I just thought that I'd ask....I'm not allowed to get any new books until February.....I'm cut off!!!
Dixie Kane - Chasing Lily goes from Alabama to California and back. Making Merry is set in Houston
Sara - desperate, humpf! he just enjoyed making trouble!
RobinDOwens - Wow. Sometimes it pays to be single.
Delyn - Is Chasing Lily a sequel to Dreaming of You or just the next book that you are working on?
Dixie Kane - Well, it's boring being a ghost
SIMPSON - yes, sometimes it does Robin!!! LOL
O - Are the books connected
RobinDOwens - Simpson, check out the Writerspace contests.
Dixie Kane - Chasing Lily is finished--the cover is on my website. I'm working on Making Merry
sha - Dixie ,I love your writting because of your sense of humor.
SIMPSON - that I did already Robin...thanks though!!!
Dixie Kane - The books are not connected
Caffey - I got to check out the cover of CHASING LILY!
Cissy - Delyn has the next question (BadBarb, O in line)
Dixie Kane - That's what connects the books, Sha--they're all funny, or supposed to be.
Delyn - Sorry, I don't know what happened there... was all queued up for my question and when the screen automatically refreshed... There it was.
RobinDOwens - to Dixie! I see you every day on my fridge.
RobinDOwens - Got the RITA Finalists poster.
Dixie Kane - Robin--How do you do that?
Delyn - My question was: Is Chasing Lily a sequel to DOY, or the next book that you have coming out?
Caffey - you got a magnet of the book cover Robin?
Sara - well, I laughed, Dixie. Unfortunately while dh was driving on the interestate -- 12 lanes of traffic -- he was bemused!
O - what is she doing on your fridge Robin?
Dixie Kane - Linda Kay was the Rita Finalist, not Dixie. I hope Dixie follows in her footsteps
RobinDOwens - LOL
Dixie Kane - Delyn-- Chasing Lily isn't a sequel. It's a Little Red Riding Hood story
RobinDOwens - Whew, Sara!
SIMPSON - ?
Dixie Kane - I was Linda Kay before I was Dixie Kane. Before that I was Linda Lewis. Too many names!
RobinDOwens - You type fast Dixie!
sha - I'll read your books no matter what name you write under or what awards you win. I've never been let down by your stories yet.
Cissy - BadBarb has the next question (O, Simpson in line)
Delyn - That is a teasing post if I ever saw one... A Little Red Riding Hood story that goes from Alabama to California and back. You've learned you teasing lessons well.
Dixie Kane - I've written five books in three years
Sara - He told me to get out of the car to go into Frye's (computer / electronics place) that the book would still be there when we were done. I wan't sure, since Antoine had just swipped the condoms and he had a habit by this time of moving stuff. I NEEDED to finish the story!