tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post1856816979278229339..comments2024-03-22T05:18:29.555-04:00Comments on Romance Bandits: Anne Gracie visits the Banditas!Loucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02217492654108300014noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-77486382586013470252008-01-22T00:30:00.000-05:002008-01-22T00:30:00.000-05:00Snort, Miss Keira! Better to be hung like a sheep ...Snort, Miss Keira! Better to be hung like a sheep than a lamb!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-44183274678641521282008-01-22T00:11:00.000-05:002008-01-22T00:11:00.000-05:00Thuds to you, Anne, for such a fabulous party!!Thuds to you, Anne, for such a fabulous party!!Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-65211178431838322682008-01-22T00:09:00.000-05:002008-01-22T00:09:00.000-05:00Anna, Banditas, old friends and new, visitors, dro...Anna, Banditas, old friends and new, visitors, drop-ins, cats and dogs, thank you so much for inviting me to play with you in the Lair. I knew you were a fun bunch, and wow! it's been fabulous. I've had a brilliant time, and also enjoyed popping in to the romancenovel TV haikufest. You galz sure know how to party.<BR/><BR/>As for booty (sigh, that word always gives me a Johnny Depp moment, sigh) I'll get my dog to pick a winner in the next few days.<BR/>Ciao, adieu, adios, kalinichte (sp) and hoo roo<BR/>Anne Gracie... thud!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-27166315953349144252008-01-22T00:01:00.000-05:002008-01-22T00:01:00.000-05:00That would be "hung" for Nureyev.That would be "hung" for Nureyev.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-12529029892609379582008-01-21T23:58:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:58:00.000-05:00Oh, no, sprung!Oh, no, sprung!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-75048542573936881182008-01-21T23:53:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:53:00.000-05:00"You know how much I love your writing so this is ..."You know how much I love your writing so this is like Nureyev telling the girl in the back row of the corps de ballet that she's doing OK!"<BR/><BR/>Anna Campbell-- you said I'd never catch you in a pair of tights! hah! gotcha!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-18103399451966776092008-01-21T23:46:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:46:00.000-05:00Terrio, Harelquin Presents author Carol Marinelli ...Terrio, Harelquin Presents author Carol Marinelli blogged about her first experience with collage recently. She was on that retreat I mentioned and she wasn't at all keen to do it. But one of hers is on my website, and you can pick that it's Presents, I think.<BR/><BR/>She blogged about it here:<BR/>http://pinkheartsociety.blogspot.com/2008/01/writers-wednesday-carol-marinelli.htmlAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-66377886015695170272008-01-21T23:39:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:39:00.000-05:00Anne, I've stuck your blog in the diary and I'll r...Anne, I've stuck your blog in the diary and I'll remind the Banditas. Anne G was such a special guest, there was a lot more activity in the lair than usual. I mean, we're usually a chatty lot. But sheesh! She's such a fantastic guest, though, isn't she? I really have been looking forward to having her as a guest since we started this gig 12 months ago. So glad it finally happened, and in such a spectacular fashion.<BR/><BR/>Um, blushing wildly to think you're enjoying Untouched. You know how much I love your writing so this is like Nureyev telling the girl in the back row of the corps de ballet that she's doing OK!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-34885555762721095892008-01-21T23:38:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:38:00.000-05:00Anne: the Banditas know me for the atrocious error...Anne: the Banditas know me for the atrocious errors in my comments. So, typing is as typing does. Now handwriting, that's an art. <BR/><BR/><I>Anne wrote, "doctors warned that the impeding of the natural flow of air to women's reproductive parts"</I><BR/><BR/>Doctors have always predicted great disaster for our repro organs, haven't they?! Remember the hoo-haa over high heels?<BR/><BR/>Kirsten dear, I've been gone on a long family holiday. I'm back now and commenting regularly. I thought I'd mentioned the holiday before I left, but knowing how absentminded I can be, I must've forgotten. Oops.<BR/><BR/>And no mere dangling of Tim Tams will do. They better be: in the mouth and sending taste buds to seventh (and seven hundredth) heaven.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-17860436574128766112008-01-21T23:31:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:31:00.000-05:00Gillian said:"After you've read the entire book an...Gillian said:<BR/>"After you've read the entire book and you realize there are no explicit sex scenes"<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the lovely compliment. I really do heart you!<BR/>Partly it was because I was so ignorant when I first started writing romance and I thought it would be a problem if I included sex scenes in a mills and boon. Though it wouldn't have suited Kate in that book because of her circumstances. <BR/>But my second book, Tallie's Knight, was a convenient mariage story and I knew sex had to be part of it, or it wouldn't be real. One of my critique partners was sure it would be rejected because of all the sex. LOL. In those days it was really hard to get romances in Australia.<BR/>I met my English editor later that year and asked her if the book had too much sex in it and she gave me such a dry look and said in the manner of an austere schoolmistress, "There is no such thing as too much sex." LOLAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-53708395189624605732008-01-21T23:27:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:27:00.000-05:00Keira, thanks for the welcome. You guys are amazin...Keira, thanks for the welcome. You guys are amazing here. How do you find time to write????<BR/><BR/>Anna, thanks for the willingness to round up people to drop by the blog on "heroes" day. I'll do it on Wednesday of this week -- Jan 23 -- so will probably post late Tuesday night (so mid-day Weds your time) and if you guys want to drop by and discuss heroes, that would be spectacular! (ps: I've been reading Matthew, speaking of HEROES! Great job!)Anne McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408045786951555625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-29213702251777936852008-01-21T23:23:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:23:00.000-05:00Hey, Keira, at one 'love' for Untouched, you still...Hey, Keira, at one 'love' for Untouched, you still owed me a drink. At three or more, hey, the drinks are on me! ;-) <BR/><BR/>Kirsten, your unmentionables made a FAB blog topic. Goodness, I still remember it so vividly which says a huge amount!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-87305730404009043782008-01-21T23:22:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:22:00.000-05:00doglady (what a gorgeous name. My Chloe-dog approv...doglady (what a gorgeous name. My Chloe-dog approves and thinks you're a person of great taste in recognizing her darlingness)<BR/><BR/>"I think Ms. Gracie would be considered quite scandalous in some time periods for going sans bloomers! (SNORK!)" <BR/><BR/>Actually, in the early 1800's, the scandalous galz were the ones wearing the bloomers! It was a shocking new fashion from the French, who'd invented such wispy little dresses that women needed undies to be warm as well as decent. When this fashion crossed the channel, it was condemned as a French Plot to undermine English Morals, ranted about from pulpits (scandalous for women to wear pantalooms, which were items of MALE attire) and doctors warned that the impeding of the natural flow orf air to women's reproductive parts would cause all kinds of dreadful diseases and result in infertility.<BR/><BR/>"Do the scenes come to you in order, Anne, or do they sometimes come out of order and you have to shuffle them like cards to get them in the right place?"<BR/><BR/>Yes, scenes from all kinds of stories come to me out of the blue and I write them down in notebooks and keep them. Sometimes they're about the characters in the story and I'll use them in that story. I'm finishing off a story now, and I've bookmarked my current notebook with orange sticky labels to go through and see if I've missed out anything I want to put in. Not every scene I write for a story goes into it.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes the scenes that come are about different people and they give rise to different stories. Often it's just a fragment or an exchange of dialogue.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-41028059082773208192008-01-21T23:18:00.001-05:002008-01-21T23:18:00.001-05:00Pam, I just thought the universe knew about the gl...Pam, I just thought the universe knew about the glory that is Gracie! No penance. Just hie thee to a bookshop pronto, bud. Actually, you two would get along like a house on fire. You're both dog mad! ;-)Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-77274517132869909902008-01-21T23:18:00.000-05:002008-01-21T23:18:00.000-05:00Keira, the embossing is gorgeous, isn't it? Now yo...Keira, the embossing is gorgeous, isn't it? Now you know why I pat my cover.<BR/><BR/>I think handwriting works for me because I do it in short snatches. The key is getting into that dream state. That's what the Dorothea Brande stuff is about, too; training yourself to enter that creative dream state. She calls it 'harnessing the unconscious."<BR/>I should confess, another reason why handwriting works for me is that I'm a rotten typist. If you've ever seen me in a live chat, you'll know.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-35435618161966288032008-01-21T22:53:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:53:00.000-05:00Keira, we don't SEE you often enough lately! Darli...Keira, we don't SEE you often enough lately! Darling, we MISS you when you aren't here!! Shall we ply you with Thin Mints? Or perhaps La Campbell will dangle Tim Tams in front of you?Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616758498778666884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-45538509662165404742008-01-21T22:35:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:35:00.000-05:00Oh, Pam (hangs head in shame). I'm sorry! Get Gall...Oh, Pam (hangs head in shame). I'm sorry! Get Gallant Waif---really. Set aside enough time for start to finish. After you've read the entire book and you realize there are no explicit sex scenes and yet the sensuality level of the book is spellbinding...be amazed.<BR/><BR/>Then go back and read it again. :)Gillian Laynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15772849187702478349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-51768262255901272122008-01-21T22:16:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:16:00.000-05:00Congrats on nabbing the GR, Helen! Hey, Caren. For...Congrats on nabbing the GR, Helen! Hey, Caren. For thin mints, I'LL come to your house! Of course I said the same thing about Tim Tams. I am just a chocolate tramp! <BR/><BR/>Okay, now here is the really awful thing. Don't hate me and please don't throw anything unless it is covered in chocolate. I have never read any Anne Gracie!! I know! I know! It is a mortal sin!! It has to be in the Romance Writer / Reader's Bible somewhere. Thou shalt read all of Anne Gracie! So what is my penance, La Campbell?? <BR/><BR/>I loved this interview. I loved the description of a pantser as an organic writer. It describes my process so much more clearly. Although I think Ms. Gracie would be considered quite scandalous in some time periods for going sans bloomers! (SNORK!) <BR/><BR/>I too tend to go back to handwriting when things are not coming they way they should. Do the scenes come to you in order, Anne, or do they sometimes come out of order and you have to shuffle them like cards to get them in the right place? I have scenes that come to me out of the blue and it sometimes takes me a while to figure out where they go in context. <BR/><BR/>Of course your dog is just darling! Look at that face! And definitely a fashion icon!<BR/><BR/>My favorite hook? Hmmm. I love a marriage of convenience that is most INCONVENIENT! I love a "clueless" like story where the guy is the one who is clueless! I am a real sucker for a Beauty and the Beast story because you can go so deep to find out what makes the man a beast. You can delve into some real character with that one. <BR/><BR/>And I love opposites attract stories where he or she is the very last person anyone would ever expect him or her to fall in love with. I am off to find some Anne Gracie books online. <BR/><BR/>Gillian, I thought you were my friend! Why didn't you TELL me about this fabulous author?? You too, Anna C!!dogladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392561174583932552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-69178944088625473232008-01-21T22:02:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:02:00.000-05:00Anne: My fav bookseller called me earlier today sa...Anne: My fav bookseller called me earlier today saying they had TSP in, so of course, I had to run out and get it. And while I was there, both she and I oohed and aahed over the cover. The embossing makes the diamonds believable. Verrry nicely done.<BR/><BR/><I>Anne said, "Writing by hand is supposed to have a deeper connection to the brain"</I><BR/><BR/>Tracy Chevalier said the same thing in a talk she gave here in Seattle a few years ago. She writes her entire manuscripts by longhand. The other thing she said was that writing by hand moves at the same speed as her mind, typing gets ahead of her.<BR/><BR/><I>Anne said, "there's a real sense of authority behind it"</I><BR/><BR/>So true. If the writer tiptoes around the story, the impression is one of incompetence, not nervous/shy. Not very nice on the part of us readers, but there you have it.<BR/><BR/>Anne, I'm so going to quote you on the crossed fallopian tube bit. I have talked about crossed eyes, but you're a true goddess (or would that be princess?).<BR/><BR/><I>Anne asked, "I wonder if we could persuade the other writers to change to versions of Anne too?"</I><BR/><BR/>If changing my name to Keira-ann will get me published, get me in front of a judge ASAP.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to see that view of the Hindu Kush, too. <BR/><BR/>Foanna: A drink with an umbrella is definitely going to be on me in July for the sheer pleasure of reading <I>Untouched</I>. I love, love, love, love (um, ok) it. <BR/><BR/>Lacy bloomers? BTW, you were headed down Limmerick Lane, instead of staying on Haiku Road.<BR/><BR/>Buffie: I hope the Down Under gals will not only explain what Tim Tams are, but will have a few at hand for tasting at National.<BR/><BR/>Beth: Blue-collared heroes, eh? I bet you're dying to read Lisa Klepas's second contemp. I've been foaming at the mouth for months now.<BR/><BR/>Trish: A HUGE yay to you for moving up and up and up in the Title IV contest. And yes, I voted.<BR/><BR/>Christine: I'm a tad nervous about this talk of Foanna extracting kidneys out of folks. I better give her two umbrella drinks instead of one. And instead of asking your husband for his definition of "thud" I'll just treat him to a drink, too.<BR/><BR/>Kirsten: Surely your epitaph is going to read you went commando and enjoyed it. Just as there's a picture of Anne Gracie's grandmother hanging over your mantlepiece. :) <BR/><BR/>AnneMac: So great to see you here in the Lair. Welcome, welcome.<BR/><BR/>Brownone: Have you read Candice Hern's Merry Widows series?<BR/><BR/>All this talk about chocolate sure warms the heart of this gal who has liquid chocolate instead of blood in her body.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-77309613205808650092008-01-21T21:58:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:58:00.000-05:00mshellion, thank you! I'm so glad you liked my Gi...mshellion, thank you! I'm so glad you liked my Gideon. He was such a wicked charmer. I wrestled with him for ages before I decided to let him go his own way, and I'm so glad I did.<BR/><BR/>"And in your newest list, the one you termed the fallen angel--HIS was the book I immediately thought: OOooh, he's going to be DELICIOU"<BR/><BR/>I hope so. At the moment Luke's the last book, so he's here in all his glory in my head. Before him, we get the cool, elegant, controlled Rafe, who nothing ever ruffles... of course, he's going to lose every little bit of his cool over the heroine I have lined up for him... heh, heh.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-22182214524707097652008-01-21T21:57:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:57:00.000-05:00Sure, I go to work and somehow you start talking a...Sure, I go to work and somehow you start talking about my unmentionables! Why in the world did I think that would be a suitable blog topic? ;-) <BR/><BR/>Anne (Gracie that is!) thanks for being such a lovely guest and I hope you had fun today in the Lair. I've been waiting for this for a long time! Now we've just got to get Eloisa and Mary Balogh in here and my hero worship will be complete!Kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616758498778666884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-30589197989186822472008-01-21T21:52:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:52:00.000-05:00Hi Anna (another wonderful member of the tribe of ...Hi Anna (another wonderful member of the tribe of annes)<BR/>Hope the crisis isn't too bad and that it's all ok soon.<BR/><BR/>"How cool that you mention Robyn Donald - the first romance I ever read was by Robyn. And it still has one of my favourite scenes ever!"<BR/><BR/>Robyn is a fabulous writer and a gorgeous person. She's also amazingly wise. She has given me some of the best advice ever.<BR/>Did you guys know she and Daphne Clair run a live-in writing workshop called Kara School of Writing. I know a few people who've done that -- combined a holiday in beautiful New Zealand with Kara. They only take 4 people at a time, and focus really intensely on your own work. Even published authors do Kara, as these two are so good.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-6910215194600243142008-01-21T21:50:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:50:00.000-05:00SuzAnne, of course you can play.And brownone, you ...SuzAnne, of course you can play.<BR/><BR/>And brownone, you might enjoy my Stolen Princess story, in that case. She's a widow. <BR/>And my theme song for her is a Katie Melua song that goes:<BR/><BR/> "The first time that I saw you <BR/> I said for goodness sake <BR/> That man's got the power <BR/> He's a charmer with a snake <BR/> I was thrilled and fascinated <BR/> and somehow liberated, <BR/> When you took me to a place I'd never been. <BR/> You showed me lots of things I'd never seen <BR/><BR/> You set me free <BR/> as if you'd taken me, <BR/> Halfway up the Hindu Kush <BR/> And I love you, <BR/> for showing me the view <BR/> from halfway up the Hindu Kush "<BR/><BR/>Fabulous song. Fabulous album with lots of fabulous songs, actually. Katie Melua is a singer/songwriter from the UK.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-23789874675186266912008-01-21T21:40:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:40:00.000-05:00Caren said:thank you for your astute diagnosis of ...Caren said:<BR/>thank you for your astute diagnosis of Anna's versification limerickitis. We have been trying to get her into a treatment program for months, but she refuses to go! Surely your Presidential authority will convince her.<BR/><BR/>Caren, I've tried. As a founding member of Punsters Anonymous, I've had punning battles almost to the death with her on the aussie RWA loop, so I recognize critical wordopathy. <BR/><BR/>I fear, though my dear Caren, having seen your prodigious Haikuity on romancenovelTV that you might need treatment yourself... LOL.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564152027118499399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-19578137404966354892008-01-21T21:33:00.000-05:002008-01-21T21:33:00.000-05:00Wow what a party!Sorry I only just managed to pop ...Wow what a party!<BR/><BR/>Sorry I only just managed to pop in - family crisis.<BR/><BR/>But I had to drop by and say a big hi and welcome to my Ping-loving pal, Anne! And, I'm definitely going to check out The Stolen Princess (*grumble, grumble* I'm not a fan of Regencies, but there are too many of you great Regency writers convincing me otherwise!)<BR/><BR/>How cool that you mention Robyn Donald - the first romance I ever read was by Robyn. And it still has one of my favourite scenes ever!Anna Sugdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015356374453032571noreply@blogger.com