In The Mood For Romance (3)

Thanks for the congrats, guys!  Donna, can you post the link to Love Romances?  I seem to have lost mine.

 Aurelene, I usually read in the bath.  i used to read for hours into the night once I'd gone to bed, but these days I find I need the sleep!

 Travelling is great for reading, too.  Planes, trains, i need a book!

 Love, Liz

Congrats to the Rita finalists!

Welcome the new author! (Still have to make it over to vote now there's a link. Thanks for that, Donna)

Too much to remember from the old room, so I'll just say I haven't watched much tv since I got roped into the Twilight series in January and it got my writing juices stirred up again. I like to read in the living room while dh watches tv, but he's hard of hearing and I can't take the loudness very long, si I end up in the tub, bed, or office to read. Outside, on the porch when it's nice out.

I love NCIS and all the CSI shows, NY-Gary Sinise! YUMM Also, daytime court shows are interesting, but those can eat a whole day without my realizing it's already 6 pm and nothing accomplished! I watch The Seeker on Saturday if I'm not writing when it comes on (and sometimes I'll leave writing to watch it). Sundays I try to remember The Unit and Cold Case (in reverse order) and Mondays used to be The Medium, but I think its moved to Thurs and I forget its on, and House. Friday used to be Ghost Whisperer, but I keep forgetting because it's the beginning of the weekend and I don't have the dgd to watch so I write, write, write from then to Monday, as much as I can cram in, since dh works those nights and sleeps days then.

So, now you all know my boring life! Lol

I didn't write hardly any today though. After staying up til 3 am for the past two nights and rising before 10 am both days, I rested, visited with youngest dd, who brought the new baby- 1.5 wks old already- for her first visit, and then took a nap once they'd gone. I got 3-4 paragraphs in this evening-- most, if not all, of which will probably get deleted and rewrote, as it felt like merely 'making myself write for 15 minutes' slush, and which took most of an hour to write-- before coming in here to browse the threads.

Now, I think I'll get to bed before 2 am. Dh is off tomorrow and Tuesday, so he complains if I write ALL day on those days, as well as all week. Don't understand why.  

... my book is in, deadline has been met, and I can come out and play again.

What's the best for snuggling up with a romance or three? Ooh, I'm thinking a day like today. After weeks of relentless sunshine - we have grey, cool and rainy. Perfect for diving into my tbr pile.

  I'm like you Donna - I haven't been watching much of tv at all of late... except reruns of As Time Goes By (which I have on dvd anyway). But I love Judi Dench. The tv always goes on, though, when the dh is home. When he's not I have a tendency to play my ABBA cds rather loudly.

Michelle! Nice to be able to sit and relax for a while.

Lol on the cable thing. It can be frustrating. Like I said, I used to watch all those shows. That was before my muse not only returned, but sits on my head while I write these days, so not much tv getting watched. Though, today I borrowed Chasing Liberty (Mandy Moore/Mathew Goode) from dd and was pleased when dh sat and watched it with me. Then he put in Pirate's of the Carribean, Dead Man's Chest(I think it was that one?) and watched half of it with me before he went to bed, and I finished my evening with Johnny Depp alone, in the quiet. During the first half hour our rain storm hit and we stood in the doorway, one eye on the movie, and the other eye on the rain/hail storm, that lasted all of ten minutes and then passed on. He got a 1" dia hail stone for me...? Cute.

Rae, this has been happening since the first of the season unfortunately.  So we'll just get the season when it comes out.  They usually release it around the end of September and I end up getting it for our anniversary!  LOL!

I have one more pass on the ms, with 2 things to layer in the proper spots, and then it's the send button.

AND OH CRAP!  I forgot I haven't yet written a synopsis....

*smacks head and runs out*

Donna

for those of you with no deadlines/mss calling.

Michelle- if you haven't watched it yet, PS I Love You is a great movie too.

Hope the synop went well Donna. Someone else forgot they had one to write this week, too. I just need to keep reminding myself to get that done soon.

Hello_all,

Liz,a-lady-at-my-church-was-wanting-to-watch-that-show-on-HBO-about-the-Ladies

Detective-Agency.She-wasn't-sure-when-it-was-going-to-be-on.When-I-was-paying-my

cable-bill,I-found-a-flyer-detailing-all-the-upcoming-shows.I-took-it-to-her-at-church.The

next-Sunday,she-brought-her-copy-of-the-book-and-told-me-I-could-bring-it-back-when

I-finished-reading-it.So,I-have-it-at-the-top-of-my-TBR-pile.Right-now,I-just-started-reading

the-first-book-in-the-"Park_Avenue_Scandals"_series.

Aurelene

Ooh, yes, I've heard good things about this film. I shall add it to my list. Thanks, Lisa!

Liz, I hope the wallpaper is now, uh... stripped. May ask you for some tips down the track - we have wallpaper that is so awful it's scary. And we've put up with it for (I am very ashamed to say) 14 years. I was kind of hoping that it'd just... fall off. But after 14 years, I've figured that just isn't going to happen.

Number One Ladies Detective Agency isn't something I've delved into yet. But when I have more time... It does sound wonderfully quirky and charming.

I heard about that! My sister sent me some links about it. Such a tragedy. My heart goes out to their families.

There's been a great NY times article, and a tv piece not long ago, but the latest is the piece by ABC.  http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7329822  There are readings both of Margaret Way's latest and Michelle Douglas's.  Very cool ladies!

It is wonderful to see Harlequin doing so well.  :-)

Donna

Darn think entered more than once.

Thanks for posting the link, Donna. This was such a fun, upbeat piece - I really like the way it was handled. No sly digs or eye rolling which made for a refreshing change.

I'm so pleased Harlequin are getting such good press lately.

The transition from threads being found in folders to threads being found below the folders was not the smoothest. 

I'm currently reading, HIS PRINCESS IN THE MAKING. OMG it is sooooooo good! But my heart is breaking right at this moment. Incredible writing. Wow! 

(A few hours the book is finished.) My heart is breaking... This story is so beautiful--it is a powerful story of love and loss and redemption (and yes, there is a HEA), but there is one thing missing...

The promise of a story and a HEA for MAX. Max is need of his own story, please Melissa, please write his story. 

Oh dear, my tbr pile just got bigger!

Thanks for posting your thoughts on June's offerings Nancy.  They all sound like wonderful reads!

Michelle 

There are so many of the latest releases I want to get my hands on.....and my tbr pile just keeps getting larger...

Nancy - I have Gina and Dante's story ready for my editor as well.  :-)  But thank you so much!  I saw your review.  I will admit to crying lots with this one.

Donna

I have enjoyed the Romance line for several years. Many of them are light, humor-filled book--lovely fast paced reads. There are also some that are more thought provoking, but so well written books filled with emotional connection. In fact, it is that emotional connection that is true of all my favorites in this line.

What do you like about HM&B Romances?

PS Melissa--I will be so sad if Max's story is a novella that is not released in the NA market.  I, too, believe he deserves his own HEA in a full length novel. After all this man has been passed over by, not one, but two lovely heroines.  

I'm waiting for Max's story, too, Melissa, and believe he's entitled to a full length book, but whilea novella may initially be released only in the UK, it will be available to everyone as an e-Book so unlike my Chosen As the Sheikh's Wife, which just missed out on an eBook release, no one will have to wait until it finds its way into the US market.  

I just love the fact that the most recent books don't disappear, but are constantly available to anyone with a computer, mobile phone, or eBook.   

Liz

Did someone say eBook? I love being able to get books that are no longer available in print via eBooks. You all know that you can ask for older books to be added to the eBoutique, right? Over in the "Backlist Books: What Would You Like to See Reissued?" Last month "they" re-issued 50+ backlist books into the eBoutique, so they are listening. I personally would like to see all of Liz's books set in that nice little village re-issued and marked so that we can find them all. I think I'm missing a few of the early ones.

Liz, are you sure we'd be able to get the eBook here in NA? I can't download books from the eBookstore in the UK -- rights issues and it knows I'm in the States. B/c I would surely love to get the Medicals that are not released in NA via eBook . . . and I can't. Or at least I couldn't when the UK site first launched their eBooks. I can try again . . . I haven't since it first launched. Maybe they've started to work out rights issues to allow NA residents to get the eBook version?

Off to other things. Like reading the blog post from our new HR author. Has she joined our community here?

Penn

You can all let go that breath you're holding.  I don't have a cat!

 Love, Liz

Melissa: reading is subjective--there are some characters that don't resonate with me even if they are well loved by others. Your princess did resonate with me and for me I saw a challenging subject handled with a great deal of care, but you did not gloss over and make everything "pretty". There was a great deal of grit and reality in your story, along with the that there was hope, deep abiding love and a poignancy that pulled this reader in. Which review do you want to carry around inside and believe? 

Your experience with those reviewers are the very reason I pay very little attention to reviews when I am deciding which book I want to read.  I am aware that I may not like a story someone else loved but I'm equally likely to love a book someone else panned.

And I do wonder how many of our readers actually ever pick up RT or go online and look for reviews

For you authors out there: I never look at a paid reviewer's take on a book before reading it. I don't want to know what they think of a book, because I don't want it coloring my view of the book. If I did see or hear of their opinion ahead of time I would do everything I could to dismiss their view from my mind. 

I do glance at movie reviews, but if a certain local reviewer I know pans it, I am 99% sure I will love it. His world view is so different from mine and it influences everything he believes. 

Melissa, I have been posting my reviews on the M&B site as well. I posted, The Rebel King, today--I was just as impressed with that book--in fact, my first word of the review was WOW! I don't remember a book of yours I haven't enjoyed--so remember that every time you send a new book out into the world that there will be fans that LOVE the book.