WILD WEEKEND! Banditas Revealed!

ALL RIGHTY! It is Friday afternoon and time to launch our FIRST WILD WEEKEND since we are now "officially" out here in cyber-space!

And to celebrate our new "officially launched" status, Aunty Cindy thought she'd expose a few little known facts about some of my Bandita compatriots. Hang onto your sombreros, chicas! Here are a few things you might or might not know about us Romance Bandits...

Yes, we are a diverse bunch! We write in many different sub-genres of romance including historical, contemporary, suspense, paranormal, and young adult. We hail from the West Coast, East Coast, Mid-West, South, North and places in-between, not to mention Canada, Down Under, and Across the Pond.

We have amongst our ranks at least one accountant, one engineer (Not the train variety!), and one real estate agent.

Two of our Banditas are attorneys.

Two are nurses currently working in hospitals and one Bandita used to supervise nurses (but not in a clinical setting).

At least three of us trained and worked as journalists (currently or in the not too distant past).

One taught high school English (and lived to tell the tales), and one even worked in the funeral industry (and teaches a class about it)!

And two of our Bandita sisters own more pairs of shoes than the other eighteen of us put together!

But one thing we all LOVE is writing! Doing it! Reading it! Blogging about it! So grab a margarita and join us at the BAAA for a rip-roaring good time!

LET THIS WILD WEEKEND BEGIN!

Anyone Up For a Wild Weekend Meme?

Hey, is it a wild weekend again?!?! ALREADY?!?! WOW! This one kinda sneaked up on your old Aunty. Well, we had some fun last time with a "meme" Christine provided. So why not give it another whirl?

Bust out the cabana boys with the frosty drinks and answer these questions:

In honor of Easter... What did the Easter bunny bring you?

What is the farthest distance you've traveled from home?

What plot device makes you throw the book against the wall?

What GREAT book would you like to see made into a movie that hasn't been yet? And any casting suggestions?

And while we're on the subject of movies and casting, who would YOU cast as Stephanie Plum, Morelli, and Ranger?

Okay, Banditas, let's GET WILD!

Wild Weekend Meme A La Aunty C

What was the last wild thing you did?
Would you believe, sitting in the ER letting the DH squeeze my hands while the doctor put four stitches in his face? This was Valentine's Day and he had been mugged. NO, not by me! Happily, he recovered nicely. But that is not something I want to repeat any time soon.

What is the next wild thing you're going to do?
Like Jeanne, I don't usually PLAN to do wild things. However, I have a feeling that the next wild thing will happen next month during my local RWA chapter's retreat... Stay tuned for updates!

Name the last three books you read
Last three would be: Sin by Sharon Page, a hot, Hot, HOT Regency;
Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth George; and
Sweaters to Crochet in a Weekend and I don't have the author in front of me, but obviously she crochets a LOT faster than I do, because that was three weekends ago, and my sweater is still not finished!

Favourite first line of a novel?
"In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit."

Famous last words/Most satisfying ending to a novel?
...and they lived Happily Ever After! (What can I say? I'm a sucker for an HEA!)

Bronte or Kinsale?
Bronte

SEP or JAK?
JAK, but only when she's writing as Amanda Quick. If it's a contemporary, then SEP.

Most boring read?
State or federal Medicaid regulations! UGH! Had to read WAAAY too many of those in my previous life.

Most times you've read one novel?
Well, I've lost count of how many times I've read LOTR. Of course, I read it for the first time when I was 15 and that was... quite a number of years ago!

Also, I WORE OUT (literally, the hard cover was falling off) my copy of Black Beauty when I was a child.

The writer you'd most like to be and why.
As I've mentioned before, I'd like to be Phylis A. Whitney when I grow up. Ah, to be THAT prolific and continue to be popular decade after decade!

Paranormal Romance or Historical Romance?
Depends on the book! Okay, I know that's cheating. Overall historical, I've read way more of them, and I LOVE many many of them. Mind you, I've read some GREAT paranormals too (and can't wait to get my hands on our own Packer Pal Pam Palmer's The Dark Gate!), but I'm pretty much vampired out right now.

Linda Howard's Son of the Morning or Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code?
GASP! Would you believe I haven't read EITHER OF THEM?!?!

Okay, in all honesty, I REFUSE to read Da Vinci Code unless some one FORCES a copy into my hands. I figure Dan Brown does NOT need any more money, and especially not MY hard earned dollars! I did, however, read Angels and Demons and was TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY! (And yes, somebody loaned cheap-skate me a copy) I was working on my GH finalist Jewels of the Madonna at the time, which is set in Venice, and I told the DH, "If I ever write a book set in Rome, I want it to be HALF this good!"

And one final note: Since I have Irish ancestors on both sides of my family tree, then I probably AM related to an Irish Prince... or two!