Ann Jacobs - Hey, my banner's rolling! Take a look.
Ladyrogue74 - I know mine did and I got gift certificates and I was one of the lucky ones to win one of the gift baskets at elloras cave too...
Delyn - Had to go and bookmark authors' sites to visit later.
Cissy - haven't forgotten you, bry!
Delyn - Nope, still having snack attacks... pumpkin pie later tonight.
Cissy - Hopefully some Red Sage authors will join us shortly
cassiewalder - Good for you. LadyRogue...
Ladyrogue74 - we still have way to many snack foods in the house....ugh...no more...
Lanette/Lani - Congrats, Ladyrogue!
cassiewalder - Snacks? I've still got good food enough to feed the family for a week.
Ladyrogue74 - thanks Cassie...am really looking forward to it...
Ladyrogue74 - Thanks Lanette
cassiewalder - Which of my earrings did you get?
Ladyrogue74 - I dont know I got the 11th day basket...
Delyn - Congratulations, Ladyrogue...
bryony - *supergluing self to Cissy*
cassiewalder - I put together silver earrings for each basket.
Lanette/Lani - Oh, then you got my arc of IMMORTAL HEAT from the APHRODITE'S TOUCH anthology!
bryony - *waving to Alice and Snake*
Ann Jacobs - Hi, Alice.
Ladyrogue74 - I couldn t believe it I was sooo excited it was a great early christmas present...
AliceGainesChambers - Snake's waving back, Bry
Ladyrogue74 - yeah...there are a lot of goodies in there...
O - What is eveybody reading?
AliceGainesChambers - She has to wave with her tail, of course
cassiewalder - Glad that you got it.
Ann Jacobs - I just got Secrets 8 as a present from my good friend and CP, Jeanie Cesarini. More for the TBR pile!
bryony - Just great. LadyRogue wins a brill book and goodie basket and I win a cricket bat and bag. My life sucks
Cissy - Hi Alice!!
Ladyrogue74 - I haven't had a chance to read it yet too...so it is even better...
O - Lady
AliceGainesChambers - I'm reading a fantasy, O -- Kushiel's Dart
Lanette/Lani - Cool!
Ladyrogue74 - sorry bry...It was the cap to a really crappy day for me so it was even better appreciated...
O - Who is the author Alice
cassiewalder - Ive always wanted a cricket bat
Delyn - Bryony... did you get that cricket bat and bag yet? LOL
Cissy - Alice, you have to tell us about My Champion, My Lover!
AliceGainesChambers - Jacqueline Carey
Cissy - Volume 8!!!!
Ann Jacobs - And Lucavarious. I read Chris's A THIRD PARTY-- cool and supersexy, fun read!!
bryony - I'm staring at them now, Delyn
O - I am rading Jennifer Aslley "Periles of the heart " it is good
AliceGainesChambers - Well, the hero's in his forties, tall, bald and shy, and an excellent lover!
Ladyrogue74 - that is a good series Alice.
Lanette/Lani - Alice, MY CHAMPION, MY LOVER is a great story! I really enjoyed it!!
bryony - I was aiming to win a day at the cricket in a Super Box but didn't quite make it *sigh*
AliceGainesChambers - Anna G. of Tor expressed an interest in one of my stories
cassiewalder - Hey, you won something.
AliceGainesChambers - She suggested I read this to get an idea of how to do fantasy
Ann Jacobs - Alice, that hero sounds like my DH. LOL
cassiewalder - Way to go, Alice. Tor is a great house.
AliceGainesChambers - And I must say, I love it. The writing is fabulous!
bryony - I suppose I can bash muggers with the bat and hide the bodies in the bag
Cissy - he sounds like a great hero, Alice!
cassiewalder - LOL.
AliceGainesChambers - I loved the hero in my V8 story. I even gave him my father's name -- Robert
bryony - Congrats Alice, that's great news
Ladyrogue74 - Kushiels is definitely a twist on fantasy...good book very political though...
Ladyrogue74 - Bry that sounds like it might be fun I have some on my list wanna come and help me?
AliceGainesChambers - I'm very excited. I'm going to spend the next six months writing my fantasy.
Ann Jacobs - Has anybody read Secrets 8 yet?
AliceGainesChambers - It may never sell to anyone, but it's going to be a great learning experience for me.
Ladyrogue74 - mine is backordered through work...ugh...
Lanette/Lani - I have...well, not all of the stories yet.
AliceGainesChambers - I read volume 8 months ago. One of the perks of being in the anthology
cassiewalder - We have to stretch or we grow stale, Alice.
Ann Jacobs - Which ones? I haven't had time to do more than open it and read my buddy's message...
AliceGainesChambers - I always wanted to write fantasy romance. My first Secrets was a fantasy
Ann Jacobs - Hi, MaryJanice. Happy holidays!
Lanette/Lani - I've read JARED'S WOLF and MY CHAMPION, MY LOVE.
MaryJanice - Thanks, Ann. Popping in briefly...stole away from the in-laws and logged on in secret...
MaryJanice - Stupid forced together family time...
bryony - No problems LR, we can take preorders for muggings
Delyn - Hi MaryJanice... nobody's telling from here.
bryony - MJ!! You remembered!! *fainting*
Ladyrogue74 - cool thanks bry...its a long list though...lol
Lanette/Lani - Hi MJ!
Cissy - Hi MaryJanice!
AliceGainesChambers - LOL. The snake is bound and determined to get on the keyboard. I may have to put her to bed
Lora Leigh - Hi MJ
Cissy - MJ, tell us about Jared’s Wolf!
Delyn - I bet MJ is escaping... <grin>
O - EWWWW Please do Alice
MaryJanice - Hi, guys. Yeah, Bry, I, uh, remembered. Sure!
Ann Jacobs - Speaking of family, I've gotta go-- the natives seem to think it's snack time.
MaryJanice - Jared's Wolf...intrepid werewolf hunter Jared Rocke comes up against intrepid werewolf Moira Wolfbauer...sparks don't fly, fists do!
Ladyrogue74 - night Ann
O - bye Ann
bryony - JARED'S WOLF *swooning*
MaryJanice - Just got pulled away by my ma-in-law, who wants me to get her TV off DVD and back on TV. What, because I'm sitting at a computer now I'm a cable repairman?
MaryJanice - Thanks, Bry, I had lots of fun with Jared and Moira.
MaryJanice - And I just heard from Alex today; she read my proposal for BEGGARMAN, THIEF and wants it sometime next year. I was like, um, WHEN?!?
AliceGainesChambers - MJ, I thank heaven I have a small family
Cissy - I know what it's like to be the family geek, MJ
O -
MaryJanice - I have a small family, too, but I married into a big one! D'oh!
Delyn - MJ... don't you know that because you use the computer... you become an expert at anything electronic... LOL
MaryJanice - Guess so, Delyn!
cassiewalder - Try having a Masters in CS, and see how many times you have to bail out the relatives
AliceGainesChambers - My dh's family is mostly on the East Coast -- a safe distance away
MaryJanice - So is mine! But we keep visiting. Love those beaches.
Ladyrogue74 - Threaten to charge them they will stop asking you to do anything electronics related then
Cissy - MJ, tell us more about JARED'S WOLF!
O - Most of us on the East coast are burried in snow and we cna't move
Delyn - Is next year too soon for Beggarman, Thief, MJ?
MaryJanice - Well, let's see...there's lots of sex, and not a little bit of violence, and a really terrific, suspenseful ending. I loved writing it and I hope you guys enjoy reading it.
MaryJanice - Sorry, Delyn, Beggarman would be in Volume 10.
Ladyrogue74 - I am in the midwest and we got snowed on too...not as bad but it slowed us down some on christmas eve...
Cissy - Alice and MJ - what are you favorite scenes from your new novellas?
Delyn - Ahhh... that's quite a ways off.
AliceGainesChambers - Oh, gosh...I guess the two chapter love scene
AliceGainesChambers - It starts with tea and orgasms in the conservatory and then moves to the bedroom
MaryJanice - Um...when Jared confronts his sister's killer, with Moira's help.
O - I guess they do it slow Alice
AliceGainesChambers - And then, he does something kind of interesting with the whipped cream
Cissy - TWO CHAPTER LOVE SCENE?? Oh, I'm so there, Alice!
cassiewalder - Alice, what made that special?
MaryJanice - Tell me, Delyn! But it's just as well; I doubt I'd have made the deadline for Secrets 9, with my other contracts.
Cissy - "tea and orgasms" -- beats the hell out of tea and sympathy
cassiewalder - A sympathetic orgasm?
Lanette/Lani - What is the deadline for 9?
Delyn - MJ... which is good news too... means money coming in.
AliceGainesChambers - Good question, Cassie. The thing that's special about these two is that they both have very strong appetites but haven't had satisfaction their entire lives
MaryJanice - True enough, Delyn, but right now I've got too many contracts for a day job, but I'm too poor to quit the day job!
O - They can't get no satisfaction ....But they try
AliceGainesChambers - As a person, I feel very strongly that the sexual urge is unrelated to beauty
cassiewalder - What's the deadline for 9
AliceGainesChambers - Not that these two are unattractive. Even though he's balding, he's a nice looking man
Cissy - oh, cool angle, Alice
MaryJanice - Heck, Alice, it's barely related to a person's gonads!
Cissy - just never met anyone who could match their appetites, huh?
AliceGainesChambers - But they aren't young. They've both been married and widowed. Now they've found someone who shares their passions
MaryJanice - Back in a flash...time to fix tea for the 7 year old...
Delyn - MJ, day jobs put food on the table.
cassiewalder - Nothing wrong with older h/h
AliceGainesChambers - Exactly, Cissy. And too, it's Victorian times. Finding another voluptuary is hazardous
O - What are working on next?
Cissy - this sounds so fun, Alice
AliceGainesChambers - In fact, she's in a mental institution because her step children found porn in her room
Cissy - MJ, your story's a sequel to your last one, right?
Delyn - Hi Mary, Hi Markdp
markdp - Hi Everyone! How's things?
cassiewalder - MJ went off and to the side
Cissy - yeesh, hope nobody searches My room!
Delyn - I'm so not liking her stepchildren.
Mary f - Hello Everyone
AliceGainesChambers - They're bad. But they don't appear in the story
cassiewalder - Victorian Era mental institutions weren't nice, Alice
AliceGainesChambers - In the end, the hero rescues her by marrying her. Then, he's her guardian
AliceGainesChambers - She's quite wealthy, Cassie, so the place she's in is nice
AliceGainesChambers - In fact, she was really put away to take her inheritance away
AliceGainesChambers - I'm giving away the whole story. But the sex is nice
Delyn - Sounds like the kids just wanted control of the money.
AliceGainesChambers - Exactly, Delyn
cassiewalder - Don't they always?
Mary f - LOL Alice
Delyn - Tried and true.
MaryJanice - I'm back! Yes, Cissy, Jared's Wolf is a direct sequel to Love's Prisoner (Vol. 6). There are a couple more Wyndham werewolf stories at www.ellorascave.com, too.
Delyn - Where'd everyone go?
Mary f - WB MJ
Delyn - Did I miss one at EC, MJ?
O -
Cissy - great, MJ!
MaryJanice - And I'm writing a loooooong book for Berkley, Derik's Bane, which will have all kinds of werewolves running around. Including Lara, Michael and Jeannie's 4 year old daughter.
Ladyrogue74 - I was wondering that myself Delyn.
MaryJanice - Delyn, let's see...there's Santa Claws, Monster Love, and...no, wait, that's it for Wyndham stuff.
MaryJanice - There's Canis Royal, but that's big cats, not werewolves.
cassiewalder - Define Looooooooooong, MJ
O - What are you woring on next Alice
Delyn - 4 year olds can cause great havoc in a romance... especially a were 4 year old.
MaryJanice - Especially one who is VERY protective of the pack...even if it means facing down her father!
Delyn - OK... I think that I've read both of those, and Canis Royal too.
AliceGainesChambers - I just finished a book that I hope Blaze will like
MaryJanice - I'll put the first few chapters up on my website in the next few weeks, and you guys can check them out if you like. Should be fun!
AliceGainesChambers - Then, I'm going to write my fantasy
cassiewalder - UGH>.... Server went wonkers again
Vivienne - I think something flipped out on the satellites
Delyn - Lara is confronting Michael???... that will be some read!
AliceGainesChambers - I also have a story for another Secrets that I may try to find time to write
MaryJanice - She doesn't like anyone "picking on" Derik.
AliceGainesChambers - Problem is, I still have my day job
MaryJanice - Alice, any news on a volume of both 7 and 8 through the book club? I've been watching for it but no luck yet.
O - What is your day jobs
AliceGainesChambers - No word yet, MJ. I'm looking, too
MaryJanice - I'm an Ops Manager for a brokerage firm. Payroll, HR, day to day ops stuff. Yawn.
AliceGainesChambers - By day, I'm a Medical Legal secretary at a large hospital in Oakland
Delyn - Didn't Derik give Michael a hard time... or do I have him confused with another?
AliceGainesChambers - My job isn't boring. Sometimes I wish it was
MaryJanice - He gave Micheal a very hard time and, of course, as pack leader Michael can't have that. They're just not wired that way.
AliceGainesChambers - I deal with attorneys and doctors all day. Talk about egos!
MaryJanice - I *hate* my day job. Can't wait until it's time to quit!
MaryJanice - The best job I ever had was working at a hospital as an Admin. Pay sucked, unfortunately, so I had to move on. But I got a lot of satisfaction out of patient care.
Ladyrogue74 - I can't wait to read more of MJ's wolves
cassiewalder - Yeah, lawyers and doctors can be a bad combination
Cissy - soon, MJ - just keep writing those werewolves!
MaryJanice - Thanks, Ladyrogue! Can't wait to jump back into the Wyndham world myself!
O - Quit and do more wriing MJ
AliceGainesChambers - I love my coworkers. And I love the company. It's the attorneys and their behavior. Hope no one here's an attorney
MaryJanice - Soon, O! Within 2 years, most likely. I'm down to a 4 day week already, but that's all I can do for now or my boss will throttle me. He may anyway; he hates my Fridays off.
Mary f - No but my DH works for them and feels the same way! LMAO
O - No but i work in a law Libray and know how Lawyers can be
cassiewalder - Been around too many litigators.
RobinDOwens - Hi all
AliceGainesChambers - I never thought I'd hate a group of people, but the way some lawyers behave
Mary f - MJ here's hoping you can quit totally soon!
Delyn - Hi Robin
Mary f - Hello Robin!
Mac - hi, Robin
AliceGainesChambers - My sister's a law professor, and she'd never behave the way some of these characters do
Ladyrogue74 - my mom works for lawyers too...they do work comp cases so I hear about it all the time
Delyn - I bet lawyers would make good villians.
markdp - Hi Robin
MaryJanice - Thanks, Mary!
RobinDOwens - Have I missed the pitches?
MaryJanice - I think lawyers are like anybody else (e.g. doctors, cops, etc.) There are some great ones, and there are some real assholes.
O - Good idea Delyn they wrould
cassiewalder - Litigators, especially PI lawyers are a breed apart
AliceGainesChambers - Pitches?
AliceGainesChambers - Somehow lawyers got more than their quota, MJ
cassiewalder - Books descriptions
Delyn - You're right, of course, MJ. It's just that all you usually hear about are the obnoxious ones.
MaryJanice - Well, time to get back to the family. It's 9:30 out here and the kids are still up...yikes!
markdp - My wife had a semester of law school before running for the writing hills.
AliceGainesChambers - Ahhh. Well, MJ and I did describe our stories some
O - You missed it Robin go stand in the cornor
Delyn - Robin, no pitch any time you want...
MaryJanice - True enough, Delyn! Like airplane crashes. It's not news when a million planes land safely every day, so no one talks abou tit.
Ladyrogue74 - night MJ
Delyn - Night MJ
MaryJanice - Freudian slip. About it, I meant.
markdp - Later, MJ.
RobinDOwens - Actually, I was recently caught in a speed trap -- deliberately set in a part of town where I was totally lost. I showed up looking good for the court, but brought my writing to work on. The judge diminished everybody's fine but mine. I will now have a couple of new people to kill off in horrible ways.
MaryJanice - Good night, all! Hope your holidays are wonderful!!!!!
Mary f - Goodnight MJ
AliceGainesChambers - I think the problem with attorneys is the system. They're advocates, not seekers of truth. They're supposed to do whatever they can to win a case
O - mj
Delyn - That's a good point, Alice... some just seem to enjoy it more than the others.
Cissy - true, true, Alice
Lanette/Lani - Night, MJ.
cassiewalder - I've seen enough ruthless lawyers to last a lifetime.
Delyn - Robin, that's the pits.
RobinDOwens - I don't need to pitch, I was waiting for the Secrets people.
AliceGainesChambers - My Volume 8 story is Victorian -- a woman sent to an asylum because she likes sex, and her hero who gets her out
Delyn - MJ just left, maybe Alice would run hers again.
RobinDOwens - However -- I will point out to this group that my contest this month is a $20.00 gift certificate to Victoria's Secret http://www.robinowens.com
AliceGainesChambers - MJ has another delightful werewolf story
RobinDOwens - Oooooooh, like that Alice! Better go peer under my bedside table and see if I have 8, or is upcoming?
cassiewalder - What can you get at VS for $20?
AliceGainesChambers - There's a tale of a dominant cowboy and a female executve
Delyn - Jared and Moira... we met Moira in MJ's first Wyndham story.
RobinDOwens - Hmmmm. Half a bra?
AliceGainesChambers - And a part man/part robot and the woman who has to decide if he's human enough to live
RobinDOwens - Sometimes I walk in and it's 3 for 1.
RobinDOwens - Sounds like Bladerunner.
AliceGainesChambers - Volume 8 just came out a couple of weeks ago
SIMPSON - sorry hit the wrong button!
RobinDOwens -
O - Who do you lke to rad Alice when you get a chance
Delyn - Maybe I'll go book shopping next week...
RobinDOwens - Ok. I probably just have 7, then.
Lanette/Lani - Well, I have to run. Night, everyone!
bryony - *bounces back into the room*
AliceGainesChambers - Believe it or not, O, but my first love in reading is non-fiction
Mary f - Night Lanette
Delyn - Night Lanette.
bryony - hello again
Mary f - WB Bry
Ladyrogue74 - Night Lanette
AliceGainesChambers - There are so many things I want to know about, and books are the best way to learn
RobinDOwens - Night Lanette
bryony - you have seven boobs or seven bras, Robin?
AliceGainesChambers - For fiction, I have to say that you can't beat a great romance novel
RobinDOwens - I have Secrets 7.
O -
RobinDOwens - And I am struck dumb at the INGRATITUDE
bryony - Thanks Mary *hiding the booze*
AliceGainesChambers - I'm extremely excited about writing a fantasy romance because there haven't been many of those
RobinDOwens - Wow, Alice, do tell.
O - What is the fantsy romanc about
Cissy - don't boobs come in even numbers, bry?
bryony - Ingratitude of SECRETS 7?
AliceGainesChambers - It's a place where there are two races -- human races are really all the same
AliceGainesChambers - That's some of my non-fiction speaking
Mary f - One would hope they do Cissy! LMAO
RobinDOwens - Is this going to be sexy?
AliceGainesChambers - But these people are really different enough that they don't often mate successfully
AliceGainesChambers - It is going to be sexy, Robin, but the emphasis of the story won't be eroticism
RobinDOwens - Ingratitude of someone who received an EXCELLENT gift.
bryony - nipples don't, so I thought perhaps boobs didn't. Anyway, Robin's special ...
cassiewalder - The number of boobs depend on the world one writes about
AliceGainesChambers - One race has dominated the other, but one general of the dominant race is going to end the domination
RobinDOwens - Sounds interesting.
Cissy - who was ungrateful, Robin? And why?
bryony - er, I said thank you for my gift, remember, you were here ...
O - It is in the future Alice
AliceGainesChambers - It absolutely blew my mind that an editor at Tor had the faintest interest in it
RobinDOwens - The person in pink with a poodle received an INCREDIBLE gift -- one I have been scolded by others for sending.
AliceGainesChambers - It's in another place, with kind of a medieval feel
RobinDOwens - Great, Alice!
cassiewalder - The cricket bat?
bryony - I love my gift, at least I didn't LOSE it, like you did mine *glares at Robin*
AliceGainesChambers - And the non-dominant race are forest people. I'm going to have the forest become a secondary character
RobinDOwens - I should think that gratitude for a gift should last as long as the gift .... hmmm my tim tams and violet crumble and dick on a stick are gone....
O - That sounds good Alice did you start it or just thining about it
bryony - It's a stunningly appropriate gift
Mary f - She did find it Bry! *snicker*
AliceGainesChambers - I've written a proposal, but it needs revision. Then, write the rest of the book
RobinDOwens - A sentient forest.... I like that. I DO still have a very sexy postcard, tho. Thanks Bry.
bryony - And where, for pity's sake, did you come up with the delusion I was ungrateful?
Mary f - ACK i just fell off the chair!
RobinDOwens - I think it was a snide comment about breasts (mine are lovely, thank you)
cassiewalder - Sentient forests can be interesting places
O - Is that what you always wanted to writ Alice a Fanstany?
RobinDOwens - Wow. When will you be getting it in Alice?
AliceGainesChambers - I'll sure be finding that out, Cassie
AliceGainesChambers - It isn't bought, Robin. But I hope to finish it by the end of June.
bryony - Who was being snide? I merely asked a question. Cissy wanted to know, too.
cassiewalder - Wish you luck, Alice
RobinDOwens - LOL
AliceGainesChambers - This is a Learning Experience for me.
bryony - This sounds brill Alice, best of luck with Tor
RobinDOwens - Lovely how fantasy romance is taking off now.
cassiewalder - Life is a learning experience
O - How many books have you written Alice
Mary f - It really sounds great Alice
AliceGainesChambers - I just finished my ninth book. Of that, four have sold, and another two are under consideration
RobinDOwens - I'll be glad to read Tor's new line.
AliceGainesChambers - I've also sold three novellas and a short story
bryony - Don't forget to have a photo of Sheik on your cover page, Alice
AliceGainesChambers - Thanks, Bry. I'm going to have to work her into the story
Delyn - Robin, have you heard the projected start date for Tor's new imprint?
RobinDOwens - Excellent.
AliceGainesChambers - And maybe I'll have an author picture taken with her.
AliceGainesChambers - Tor's going to be doing four books a year, I think
Ladyrogue74 - the fantasy and paranormal romances fly off the shelves at my store...those are the hardest to keep in stock...
RobinDOwens - No, just that they're acquiring. I hear things on the FF&P (RWA chapter) loop and from my agent.
AliceGainesChambers - Silhouette's going to be doing one book per month
Delyn - Just curious.
AliceGainesChambers - The editor at Silhouette rejected this book but said she'd look at anything else I have
RobinDOwens - Great.
AliceGainesChambers - Ladyrogue, for the longest time, the publishers told us that paranormal didn't sell
RobinDOwens - Nice that you can go to Tor or Silhouette.
cassiewalder - Many of us love paranormal.
Ladyrogue74 - well they are wrong...they fly off the shelves and I cant order them fast enough
Mary f - I'm glad They finally say up and took notice
AliceGainesChambers - They haven't promised to buy anything, Robin. But I'm very excited at the possibilities
cassiewalder - We've got a new paranormal romance group at yahoogroups
AliceGainesChambers - My first book was a paranormal, and the sales tanked
RobinDOwens - Thank you Ladyrogue, that makes me feel better.
Ladyrogue74 - I mainly read paranormals and fantasy (other then the real steamy stuff) and I suggest all the new ones to my customers...
RobinDOwens - Since I have Heart Thief coming out in June.
cassiewalder - Everyone is welcome at pngrassroots
AliceGainesChambers - Oh, and my paranormal at Hard Shell is available in POD now, Moon of the Jaguar
Ladyrogue74 - Robin I had huge trouble keeping HeartMate in stock...
RobinDOwens - Thank you, Lady.
bryony - Publishers are twits. Most don't have a clue what sells. They sure as hell don't ask the bloody readers what they want
Mac - I hope when I submit my paranormal, that the editor that reads it likes it.
Ladyrogue74 - I still stock quite a few copies of that and a few others that were newer authors this year...
cassiewalder - I'll second that, Bry
Ladyrogue74 - your welcome Robin..it was an excellent book
bryony - oooooohhhhhhh, the White Tim Tams are getting ever closer, Robin
RobinDOwens - One of the reasons I sold Heart Thief was because I forwarded email from booksellers. My editor said that really helped.
AliceGainesChambers - I have to feed the dh. The fact that I made Christmas dinner and washed the dishes yesterday have slipped his mind. LOL
Cissy - guys, our hour's almost up -- just want to say thanks to Alice and Mary Janice for coming tonight!
Cissy - And thanks to the rest of you for coming too!
Ladyrogue74 - well and it has to do with how far the booksellers will push stock at their stores too...
Cissy - And everyone go buy SECRETS VOLUME 8!!