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Hi Wayne:

Three things I love most about presents are:

1. The delicious heroes

2. The intense conflicts

3. The happy ever after ending that always seems to come out of nowhere...!

...just love them.

x Daisy/Abby 

Hi everyone, Kate well done on sending number seven off - that's amazing! I'm only on number eight myself, you're really flying, at the rate you're going you'll be on number 10 soon! And all that with a move and a new baby on the way. It's such a pity you won't make the conference but I think we can understand why. It's in NY in a couple of years anyway isn't it? Right on your doorstep.

Right, I'd better get back to work myself...

x Daisy 

Lynne welcome here! Lovely to 'see' you and you're going to San Francisco? So we'll meet, how brilliant. 

Chris that's lovely that your hubbie brought you back such a lovely gift. The book is amazing, I'm not surprised it's been getting glowing reviews.

Trish, can't wait to meet you too in San Fran, can't believe it's only weeks away. Gulp.

I'm getting back into the swing of writing after an absence of nearly 2 1/2 months. Feels like forever and I've got a deadline looming already.

Kate have a fantastic time at the RNA conference! 

Better get back to work...

x Daisy 

Sorry to be only popping head in, am off for a month working, have been home just to get a few bits so if I disappear into a black hole for another few weeks excuse me. Hope everyone is doing well, Wayne happy birthday!

x Daisy

Hi there, as far as titles go I've given up trying to come up with them, to be honest, speaking just for myself I find that it's a distraction from writing the story, so now I just title the story after the names of the main characters, and let my Ed worry about the title. Although if a title jumped out at me strongly enough I'm sure i'd try to hold onto it.

As for the H/h sleeping with other people while on a break. I guess it depends on the kind of break, were they married? how long is the break? But certainly, I think it's only fair that if the H got to play around, then so did the heroine, . I'm all for equality.

xx Daisy 

Thanks Diana!

Daisy/Abby 

Hi there, great discussion! I have to admit straight off that I'm more of a presents girl, always have been, always will, although I have read Desires and liked them. I think you can tell the disparity in the two lines, Desire and Presents straight off. Which has to be good thing. Readers are always going to love one line or another, or both and pick up different things from both or either. You have to love the choice that we can offer readers. And long live the alpha male in all his subtle variations.

I for one certainly can't stand a motiveless hero who is one dimensional, it takes real skill (which I'm still a long way away from possessing) to create a character a reader can fall in love with (and the heroine too hopefully ), despite his flaws, knowing that his actions will be justified before the end. I've always been a total sucker for that deep dark intensity between a very alpha male and his heroine. Watching her stand up to him and ultimately make him see that he can soften. Or vice versa, is it my imagination or are heroines turning the tables more and more, giving the hero the chance to soften their edges a bit?!

I've got a question: In Desires would there be much scope for a twist say on a revenge theme, to have the heroine be the one seeking vengeance and in doing so, take the kind of journey that perhaps is more traditionally the hero's journey?

Thanks! 

x Daisy - Abby Green