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Hey, kids! I'm working on it. We want your comments. Invite your comments. But I am trying to figure out a way that your comments appear in a pop up box instead of a long scroll underneath. There is a taunting suggestion in the BLOG HELP that this is possible but yikes! I have twelve people coming over for dinner in two hours and the dogs are going to go ballistic if they don't get a walk before "their" company comes (yes, I am one of those people) and I need a shower and ...well, please, please, PLEASE don't think I'm trying to exclude comments.

A nice woman wrote me and asked whether or not we'll be PC with one another because we want our fans to like us and therefore will possibly be tempted to tread lightly.

MUHAHAHAAAAAA!

I mean...no.

We've set two "no-nos!" for ourselves. We will not talk about our kids and we will not talk about politics. Other than that expect anything to be put out there.


Connie Brockway

I'm going to be off-line for a week, my little chickadees. I'll expect you to generate much conversation and controversy while I'm gone and to talk about me behind my back so I won't be forgotten.

Back on May 2nd!

Teresa, blowing kisses to all

Hey, I don't just listen to Geezer Rock, Christina! One of my favorite singers is Pink. (And that's her name, not her color. She's actually kind of pale.)

For me, the essence of a TSTL heroine is the moment when the hero thinks (with agony) "The Danger! She had no idea of the danger into which she just rode..." and he clutches her to his medieval breast while she snuffles quietly into his jerkin.

The thing about TSTL heroines is that they can remain loveable and yet put themselves in the grasp of villains without noticing what they're doing. Julie Garwood writes brilliant, brilliant TSTL heroines. Sometimes it's merely the hero that the heroine antagonizes by throwing all his dogs (and their bones) out of the castle. I love the moment when she sits down and "makes a tapestry in his colors"--all hung up neatly by the time he gets home from doing a little extracurricular hunting.

These are brilliant books because Garwood does the impossible of making us love someone we wouldn't respect in normal life, and that allows us to be thrilled by the danger she gets into and then thrilled by the hero's agony trying to keep her alive.

I actually like heroines who are stupid at the beginning of the book. I relate to them (and to Terri) -- must reference the time we were moving and I was racing between houses and I pulled into the driveway at the new house, didn't put the car in gear, leaped out to open the garage door and heard this huge BANG! ... which was, of course, my car rolling backward into the pickup of the lady across the street who came over crying because she loved her pickup so much thus confirming my TSTL status in the new neighborhood. The point is, I learned from my mistake and check the stickshift when I park on a hill.

The heroines I consider TSTL are the ones who won't/can't learn. I read a historical and the Regency era heroine couldn't figure out why everyone got excited when she was caught alone with the hero, not once but at least three times. I didn't finish the book. I did fling it against the wall because honest to God, how dumb could she be? Why didn't she figure this out? How could she be all innocent and huffy about having to marry the hero? What a dummie! But the book sold a BUNCH and is a lot of people's favorite. So I'm going to guess that despite the negative talk on the web, TSTL heroines are actually a favorite of many readers.

Guess what I'm writing now? Okay, she does learn, but man, for the first half of the book, she's clueless -- and happy about it.

Who are the Eagles?

Christina, who thinks Terri should toss out her LPs and get a good Ipod.

Man, I only said they were from Kentucky!

Connie