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Oooooh, Connie as Blog Dominatrix! You've given me some really scary mental images of Connie in black leather wielding a whip. Maybe we should quit talking about that AND women in prison before we attract the wrong sort of audience

You're probably going to note a regional flavor to some of our messages. Eloisa and I (and I will undoubtedly screw up and call her by her non-pseudonym at some point because pseudonyms are so un-Minnesotan!) are the intelligent ones (we already covered wh...Minnesota). Christina and Lisa are the short ones (hey, there's only so many comparisons I can make between Miss Mass and Miss Mess) and Terri and Liz are in Kentucky. Nuff said.

I'm trying to figure out if there is some general email address where you could contact us, but so far it looks like a simple email to (author'sname)Blog@www.(authorsname).com should work for now. I think, as per the reasons in Christina's post, I've managed to turn off the comments allowed.

Shoes? Donald Pliner. Stuart Weissman.

Connie Brockway

If you have a question you'd like us to discuss, email one of us and if we're not too self-absorbed, we'll fling it out and gnaw on it.

Christina Who is Starting to Like This Position of Power and Intends to Keep It at Least Until Connie Gets Back

For the moment you can add comments (sometimes), but altho we're all novice bloggers we've heard about the porn spammers that pick up on these blogs, so Connie (who's our blog dominatrix) is going to block comments soon. That's not to say we don't want to hear from you. Email us and let us know what you think, and if you're clever and witty, we'll post for you. If you're more witty and clever than we are, forget it, who needs the competition? And if you're a porn spammer, drop dead.

FOUR REASONS I DIDN'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN A BLOG
1) I think they're pointless exercises in egotism. Just because I'm a bestselling author, why should anyone care what I think about the latest publishing scandal or last week's episode of DR. PHIL? (Oh my gosh! Did anybody see it a couple of weeks ago when Sharon and Ozzy Osborne were on?)
2) Because I'm a very shy and private person who hates to reveal details about her personal life(Did I ever tell you about the time I was accidentally put in Special Ed classes in the first grade? Or what about the time I fell between the bleachers during a choral performance and decided to just stay under there for the rest of the show?)
3) I don't read blogs
4) Because it's just another thing to do besides actually writing a book

FOUR REASONS I DECIDED TO PARTICIPATE IN A BLOG
1) Connie Brockway threatened me
2) I love to play with fonts. It's like having my very own coloring book
3) Because I'm the only one among us who regularly watches TV so I might actually have Something Important to discuss
4) Because when I told my husband about it, he said, "Oh, just another thing to do besides actually writing a book, eh?"

No, Christina, we're not true friends until our cycles get synchronized--you know--like women in prison.

Thank goodness, Eloisa! For a minute there I thought you were going to blog about something boring, but then I realized you were talking about SHOES!!!

Actually, shoes have very little appeal for me in real life or on covers. Apparently, one of my ancestors offended a gypsy shoemaker and he put a curse on our family, causing our feet to get a size larger with each successive generation.

Has anyone noticed the trend in headless heroines (on covers that is)? I'm excited about the cover for my September release AFTER MIDNIGHT because my heroine actually has a head. Which would imply that she also has a brain...