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Whoops!  Sandyshue, I don't think you were supposed to post any answers on here, but instead email them to Jayne through the link in her blog.... 

Well, I found seven, but I have to admit that one of them I'm not sure is actually supposed to be a difference.  Guess we'll see....

I'm checking this book out at the library.  I confess I did forget about it.  But I mentioned sometime back that I wanted to participate in this online discussion and I meant it, so I'll get my rear-end in gear!   ....And then I'll be back!

...I'll take that even one step further - sometimes it might not be because you like to clean necessarily (I mean, who does?), but because you're HELPING someone who needs you.  You sound like a very nice person to have for a friend.  I'm sure your truck-driving buddies really appreciate what you're doing for them!

32 BOOKS!  Good grief, you make me feel absolutely poor!  LOL

Your H sounds very romantic in Falling for Mr. Dark and Dangerous!  I like intimate, old-fashioned gesture of him kissing the h's hand.  It's a simple act - delicate, but sexy.  Also, maybe it's just me, but I also value the setting details, like when your H entered the h's private bathroom and smelled the cinnamon and apples coming from a scented oil dispenser.  Also the soft lighting.  Helps bring it to life!  I can very much imagine that bathroom. 

My hubby and I happen to LOVE staying in B&Bs.  IMHO, no hotel can rival them!

I'm waiting on your The Soldier's Homecoming.  And I'll have to order this book, too!

And I, for one, am glad to accept all the professional advice I can reap since my dearest aspiration is to shoot for a Liz Fielding-like career of fifty books! <GG> 

 I was always told that in order to avoid telling the story rather than showing it, a writer should engage the five senses: Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.  Do you feel this is a good technique? 

 Also, what about incomplete sentences?  I find that the most contemporay novels have a lot of two or three-word fractures.  Sometimes even a single word.  Do you think this helps to give emotional punch to an especially intense scene?  For instance: She was livid.  As in, the seeing red kind of livid.  Totally ready to lose it.  Or is this style annoying to editors?

 

That's true, FF.  I'll have to be careful.  Thanks! 

Copyrights are tricky.  I haven't learned all the ins and outs of it yet.  Of course, I trust eHarlequin, or otherwise I'd never be blogging on here.  Also it's my sincere goal to be published with Harl and Sil.  But I totally see what you mean.

Michelle, I love mistaken identity themes, too (those can often be funny)!  Beauty and the Beast?  I'm not sure if I've read any with that theme - what are some good titles?  Oh, and I really like stories with a touch of intrigue weaved in - something that I can't figure out until near the end.  It's fun when they contain a secret or something tucked under the surface to come out and GRAB me! But my tastes are highly variable, and like I've always said, I read smorgasbord style.

 

Janet, when I said earlier that I like 'tear-jerkers', I certainly didn't mean because of infidelity/betrayal.  Those are kind of yucky IMHO, too.

 

By the way, I'm waiting for Donna's The Soldier's Homecoming, and for Michelle's Taken By The Viking to arrive on my doorstep any time now (hopefully today).  I've been hearing great reviews about both books.  Mr. Postman needs to hurry!

Surely you don't think anybody's going to thump you for slowing down on your numbers?  Heck, we all know what you're capable of (in terms of reading, of course).  So, I say 'live it up', Girl!  Just keep your books close and handy in the meantime....  I like to read your amusing blogs.  And you really are an encouragement for the rest of us to keep reading.