| Title |
Excerpt |
Author |
Date |
Total Comments |
Recent Comment |
| SPOIL ME! BY CELEBRATING THE GOLDEN SEASON’S PUB DATE, TODAY! |
I’ve written another historical romance, a regency romance that blends old school and new, and I’m pleased. Self-satisifed. And I’ve been spoiled with good reviews. Spoiled. Hm. Now, I have been accused of spoiling my daughter, my dogs, my husband (I can hear him laughing hysterically from the next room) and… |
Connie Brockway |
02/01/10 |
0 |
|
| A REAL HALLOWEEN STORY OF TERROR AND MAYHEM |
Being a witch comes naturally to some—no, not the Witch Political, the old fashioned caricature. You know. Wicked Witch of the West. The cackling hag. The hook-nosed, green skinned, wart covered old bat that pokes out newts’ eyes for her diabolical soups...Oops. Sorry. I got carried away. Anyway, my point is… |
Connie Brockway |
10/30/09 |
0 |
|
| Something Went Wrong With Sophie Mae |
My daughter rescued her when she was six weeks old. She had been used as a bait dog, because screaming terrified puppies rouse savagery in fighting dogs. She had scars on her little head and sores on her feet from standing in her own urine. My daughter took her home, cleaned… |
Connie Brockway |
09/03/09 |
0 |
|
| Connie Brockway Reveals her Process-- a squawk retro blog |
The most common question asked an author has got to be, “What is your process? How do you *work*?” Every time I’ve been asked this question I’ve come up with a different answer because I don’t have a process. And ugly as I know it to be, sometimes I just say… |
Connie Brockway |
07/15/09 |
0 |
|
| Connie Brockway’s SO ENCHANTING Release Tour!! |
Like this champagne bottle’s cork, I’ll be popping up all over cyber space this week (and this month) celebrating the FEBRUARY 3rd release of SO ENCHANTING my upcoming historical romance! I’ll be at the Barnes and Noble Romance Club message boards Here’s that link: http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/board/message? I’ll also be over at Eloisa… |
Connie Brockway |
02/01/09 |
0 |
|
| WIN TWO copies of SO ENCHANTING! |
In less than two weeks SO ENCHANTING will be arriving in a bookstore near you.If it doesn’t, it’s arriving at a website near you. In celebration, I’m throwing a par--, throwing a draw--, holding a drawing. But this one is a little different. I’ll be choosing three of you to win… |
Connie Brockway |
01/21/09 |
0 |
|
| EXCERPTS…We got Excerpts! at conniebrockway.com |
The countdown begins for the release of my first historical romance in four years! To (hopefully) whet your appetite, I’m posting consecutive excerpts from |
Connie Brockway |
12/29/08 |
0 |
|
| What are YOU doing here? |
Why are you back? I thought you guys were completely and totally like Pouff! Not so, grasshopper. Squawk Radio has ceased existence as a “daily blog” but as all karmic experiences, now that we have mastered this existence, we are recreated in another. Yeah, yeah, right. But what does that mean… |
Connie Brockway |
06/03/07 |
0 |
|
| Connie ponders The Meaning of Squawk Radio |
I spent a good deal of time wondering what my last blog as a Squawker should be about. I think it should be about you. And me. And the rest of the Squawkers. Over the last two years, there has been nothing I have wanted to blog about that I haven’t.… |
Connie Brockway |
05/28/07 |
40 |
05/31/07 |
| CONNIE PREPARES FOR A CLEAN SWEEP |
Every year, without fail, I arrange my life so that come May I am free of all obligations and can devote myself to a thorough top to bottom scouring of the Domicile Brockway. I am compelled to do so by vague genetic memories distilled from a long line of Irish scullery… |
Connie Brockway |
05/17/07 |
41 |
05/18/07 |
| Connie’s Coop |
Well, this oughta be interesting. Using the movie function on my little Canon Powershot, i decided to go for a lo-res tour of my lair, er, office. There’s a really good reason I opted to go low res. I’m just saying… So, if this doesn’t work. Oh, well. My horrible office-keeping… |
Connie Brockway |
04/27/07 |
30 |
04/29/07 |
| WINNERS, WINNERS EVERYWHERE! |
The winners of the autographed HOTDISH hard cover, large -font edition are… PEACHY_KEEN and MONICA ILDEFONSO An e-mail will be forthcoming! Congratulations! |
Connie Brockway |
04/24/07 |
8 |
04/25/07 |
| CONNIE WHISPERS A CLASSIC GHOST STORY |
It’s Halloween, my dears, and Halloween is a day to share tales of the inexplicable and the other-worldly. The story I am going to tell you is true and it is my story. And if you do not like ghost stories, you may not like this one. However, if you are… |
Connie Brockway |
04/24/07 |
21 |
05/03/07 |
| CONNIE PRESENTS A WATER-SKIING SQUAWK CLASSIC! |
CONNIE BROCKWAY DISCOVERS THE REASON WOMEN PAST 30 DON’T WATER-SKI I am an athletic woman. I play a mean game of tennis, swim like a fish, and lift weights on a regular basis—heavy weights. So last weekend when we were visiting friends’ at their lake cabin and their son said, “Who… |
Connie Brockway |
04/24/07 |
48 |
04/26/07 |
| AND THE WEINERS ARE…! |
Momosix Kez Queen1 CherylAnne bcc_carla OV_099 Congratulations on winning autographed copies of squawkers’ books! You’ll be receiving an email soon! Thank you! |
Connie Brockway |
04/23/07 |
11 |
04/24/07 |
| JULIE KENNER SAYS “FORGET OLOFACTORY MEMORY; LET’S TALK POP CULTURE MEMORY” |
You know how they say that certain smells bring back memories? Well, I guess that’s true, but except for Kouros cologne and an old flame, and gasoline and the way my best friend and I used to take the cap off and sniff the gas in my dad’s restored Model –T… |
Connie Brockway |
04/11/07 |
11 |
04/12/07 |
| SQUAWK WELCOMES JULIE KENNER |
Below is the official bio but I have to say that I tell you that Julie at the turn of the century (when she was like five and I was not.) She came to Minnesota and she, Susan Kay Law and I had lunch. As soon as I got home, I… |
Connie Brockway |
04/09/07 |
2 |
04/12/07 |
| CONNIE HAS A TiVo JONES AND SHE HAS IT BAD |
Three years ago when we remodeled the family room we had all sorts of nifty little upgrades done to our house. Some of those upgrades were “have-to-haves” like a new furnace. Some were “want-to-haves” like new carpeting and floor to ceiling cherry-wood bookcases and others were “What-the-hell-since-we’re-spending-money-we-might-as-well-start- throwing it away!” The… |
Connie Brockway |
04/05/07 |
47 |
04/10/07 |
| CONNIE REVEALS HER PROCESS |
The most common question asked an author has got to be, “What is your process? How do you *work*?” Every time I’ve been asked this question I’ve come up with a different answer because I don’t have a process. And ugly as I know it to be, sometimes I just say… |
Connie Brockway |
03/28/07 |
35 |
04/01/07 |
| CONNIE MAKES A LIST |
I’m on a short vacation with my family (Doodah, David, and Beloved of Doodah’s) and a few nights ago after listening to Frank Sinatra croon “I Did It My Way” the conversation turned to regrets. Specifically, we started asking one another the following question: If we were to take the big… |
Connie Brockway |
03/16/07 |
56 |
03/17/07 |
| CONNIE GOES ‘PUTER SHOPPIN’ |
My desk top is dying, my notebook is dying, and never have two electronic deaths been so unlamented. Why? Because this time, this time, I am going to run with the cyber-wolves. This time, I am going to get me such a fast, such a secure, such a solid machine I… |
Connie Brockway |
03/06/07 |
64 |
03/09/07 |
| A GOOD DAY FOR A GOOD (cook) BOOK |
The sky dumped about 20 inches of snow on us over the last few days. These pictures were taken from my office window and this was before it all ended. So what do you do when the sky is falling and the wind is whipping and the temperature is diving? Aside… |
Connie Brockway |
03/03/07 |
17 |
03/05/07 |
| Caption This! |
Until I get my act together (hopefully by noon) CAPTION THIS |
Connie Brockway |
03/03/07 |
17 |
03/04/07 |
| Blogging with us tomorrow: The Inimitable, the Uber-odd, the Dizzyingly Talented…KAREN HAWKINS |
She’s cute! She’s talented! She’s really short! AND she’s a NYT bestseller, hitting the extended list at a spanking #33! Who is she? None other than historical romance author, Karen Hawkins! Karen has scored yet another historical romance hit with her latest, HOW TO ABDUCT A HIGHLAND LORD, available January 31st… |
Connie Brockway |
02/12/07 |
8 |
02/13/07 |
| Connie reports from the judicial frontlines: I have seen your peers and it ain’t pretty. |
I have spent the last week on jury duty and I am going to be doing the same thing this week. It’s been eye-closing experience. Sitting in the bowels of the Hennipen County Government Center waiting to be called up and interviewed as a potential juror is about as thrilling as… |
Connie Brockway |
02/12/07 |
55 |
02/13/07 |
| FOOTLOOSE, FANCY, but not so much FREE |
Without a doubt, the aspect of empty-nesting Adored Spouse and I looked most forward to was travel. Because we would have all this newly disposable income, you see. Muhahahahaaaaa! As soon as we discovered the error of this little assumption (sometime around when the first tuition bill payment came due) we… |
Connie Brockway |
01/31/07 |
65 |
02/02/07 |
| CONNIE GETS A MENTAL UPGRADE (IF NOT A SOCIAL ONE) |
My husband and my daughter and my father and my best friend and I are all reading The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class , not because, as the title suggests, we are preparing for a stroll amidst the “cultured classes” (… |
Connie Brockway |
01/27/07 |
14 |
01/29/07 |
| Will the REAL Steve Jaax please stand up? |
Steve Jaax, the hero of HOT DISH, wasn’t patterned after an actor but a role played by an actor. This actor is not gorgeous; his body is sometimes actually UNappealing, and he’s not young. At all. But frankly, I would rather wake up in bed next to any number of the… |
Connie Brockway |
01/26/07 |
48 |
01/27/07 |
| Who R U? We really wanta know! |
Sorry about the snafu-- let’s try this again! It’s that time again. Time for the annual SQUAWK RADIO READERS SURVEY! Whether you’re a registered member here at Squawk or a lurker deluxe, we’d really appreciate it if you’d take the time to fill out our incredibly unscientific and rambling survey. Believe… |
Connie Brockway |
01/25/07 |
63 |
01/30/07 |
| SQUAWK WEEKLY UPDATE |
You guys are great. We’ve already made a few changes and discovered a few Squawk Radio blog tricks we didn’t even know existed, all thanks to your wonderful input. 1> You may notice there are now new categories on the left side bar (aka The Coop) and better yet, we actually… |
Connie Brockway |
01/21/07 |
12 |
01/22/07 |
| SQUAWK POLL |
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For all the wonderful suggestions and thoughtful comments you made in the ALL EARS blog. We love you guys! Now, we’ve gone through the suggestions for Squawk Radio upgrades and here are the results. Please take a few seconds to fill it out. But first,… |
Connie Brockway |
01/21/07 |
26 |
01/24/07 |
| WE’RE ALL EARS! |
A comment under one of the recent blogs, thanking someone for giving an advance shout out about Susan Mallery’s future appeaance here on SQUAWK, led us to thinking how we could make SQUAWK RADIO to the next level. We’d love to make it more fun to visit, more interesting, easier to… |
Connie Brockway |
01/12/07 |
65 |
01/18/07 |
| NEWSFLASH! ELOISA LAID LOW BY MYSTERIOUS GASES EMANATING FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE IN NYC |
Our darling Eloisa has been hit by the wicked nastiness and so you won’t be privy to her wit today but instead have to make do with your own. So, here’s your chance to make Eloisa proud and ... CAPTION THIS!!! Darling Eloisa, we hope you feel loads better soon! |
Connie Brockway |
01/10/07 |
36 |
01/11/07 |
| CONNIE LONGS FOR A GOOD SHIVER AND FINDS ONE IN GHOST STORY |
It’s winter in Minnesota and I am keenly missing my bragging rights to living in the nastiest, coldest place in the lower forty-eight. Embarrass, Minnesota is frankly an embarrassment and today, for the love of all that’s holy, it rained. So, in order to put me into the proper winter mood,… |
Connie Brockway |
01/06/07 |
52 |
01/07/07 |
| CONNIE GOES TO THE MOVIES (AND YOU SHOULD, TOO!) |
Before sitting down to watch Almodover’s fabulous and fabled new film, VOLVER, be prepared to have to suspend your disbelief. Not at the notion that mothers can return from the dead to take care of their daughters, sisters and children of their enemies, but that the radiant Penelope Cruz, make-up flawless… |
Connie Brockway |
01/04/07 |
152 |
01/08/07 |
| Connie Resolves to Make Her Friends Better People |
I resolve Teresa will never spam us with another Russell Crowe picture again I resolve that Elizabeth will reconnect with the nomadic Brotherhood of the Wii for a 4:00 a.m. Target parking lot reunion I resolve that Eloisa will stop insisting the heroines on her cover be semi-naked (however, if she… |
Connie Brockway |
12/29/06 |
3 |
12/30/06 |
| Connie’s Gone to the Dogs |
Just before Christmas (December 15th, 12:58 a.m. to be precise) I turned in the manuscript for my July ‘07 book SKINNY-DIPPING. I then went missing. I went missing not only from the blog but from Christmas. For the first time in twenty some years, we were guests at Christmas dinner rather… |
Connie Brockway |
12/26/06 |
30 |
12/27/06 |
| DUCK!!!! SANTA’S SLEIGH JUST CAPSIZED!! |
From a virgin princess’s first love to a shape-changing samurai bridegroom, from a young widow and her sexy handyman’s secret project to a knight and his distressed damsel, the courage, beauty, and strength of dragons inspire the most unforgettable stories ever told. Congratulations, Goatkit, you’ve won an ARC of the Mary… |
Connie Brockway |
12/20/06 |
14 |
12/21/06 |
| THE SQUAWKERS DUMP OPEN SANTA’S BAG AND DELIVER MORE GOODS! |
BETTYSBOUNCE You each just won an ARC of Eileen Wilks’s (http://www.eileenwilks.com) upcoming January paranormal suspense release BLOOD LINES! TOOTS You each just won an ARC of Meljean Brook’s (http://www.meljeanbrook.com) upcoming paranormal erotica January release DEMON ANGEL! . . . . . . . GREATBUTLER You each just won an ARC of… |
Connie Brockway |
12/15/06 |
7 |
12/17/06 |
| CONNIE BROCKWAY SAYS, “ALL HE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS IS…WHAT?!” |
Dearly Beloved Husband gave me his Christmas list today. Now, usually I manage to nag Dearest into making a list by Christmas Eve day and it is scribbled on the back of an old gas bill envelope and has things like this on it: “Scotch (this is generally crossed out because… |
Connie Brockway |
12/15/06 |
62 |
12/16/06 |
| KATHLEEN EAGLE ANNOUNCES THE WINNER OF HER DRAWING |
Congratulations, Peggy M!!! Kathleen will be contacting you soon asking for your snail mail address! |
Connie Brockway |
12/12/06 |
7 |
12/13/06 |
| KATHLEEN EAGLE MAKES LIKE SANTA GIVING SQUAWK READERS A CHANCE TO WIN A SET OF HER BOOKS! |
THIS JUST IN!! Kathleen Eagle has a set of two of her earlier books—THE NIGHT REMEMBERS in paperback and NIGHT FALLS LIKE SILK in hardcover (they’re connected stories)—ready to autograph and send out to one of today’s commenters in her blog, name to be drawn at the close of the blogging… |
Connie Brockway |
12/12/06 |
3 |
12/12/06 |
| TOMORROW KATHLEEN EAGLE SWOOPS DOWN TO THE HENHOUSE! |
Tomorrow, we chickens are delighted to welcome KATHLEEN EAGLE to spend the day in the henhouse. Kathleen is yet ANOTHER great Minnesota author (I know! What is in the water up there?) Since she was first published in 1984, she has written more than 40 books, including historical and contemporary, series… |
Connie Brockway |
12/11/06 |
2 |
12/12/06 |
| THE SQUAWKERS DO THEIR BEST TO MAKE SURE YOU “HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!” |
Well, thanks to the munificence of Michelle Buonfiglio at Buy the Blog, we have some more treasures to add to our Holiday Givethon. For those of you who don’t know what an A.R.C. is, it’s a special printing of a book made available in very limited numbers before the final edition… |
Connie Brockway |
12/10/06 |
43 |
12/12/06 |
| CONNIE BRCOKWAY’S WEDDING PICTURE |
Okay, Christina, since you insist but ...well, I just didn’t want to shine down you and Teresa. And before you ask, I am sure I told you that David had been a, er, you know, in the British, whatever, and that’s why he got to wear the spiff uniform at our… |
Connie Brockway |
12/05/06 |
14 |
12/06/06 |
| CONNIE BROCKWAY SAYS “PASS IT ON!” |
This blog is about heirlooms. You know, those things that loom in the back of the closet and to which you were heir? Like the Victorian silver tea service you have never used, but which, once upon a time years ago, you thought maybe you would so you kept only to… |
Connie Brockway |
12/04/06 |
37 |
12/06/06 |
| CONNIE BROCKWAY OFFERS SOME CLUES AS TO WHY HISTORICAL ROMANCE IS BETTER THAN REAL LIFE |
1> no matter how long the heroine has gone without shaving, the hero never makes snide remarks about her getting ready to hibernate for the winter 2> the heroine never has moral dilemnas about things like paying $185.00 for a pair of jeans that made her ass look GREAT 3> because… |
Connie Brockway |
11/30/06 |
11 |
12/03/06 |
| CONNIE TALKS TRADITIONS |
We’re closing in on Thanksgiving Day and my thoughts have turned to traditions. I used to like traditions. I liked the Flower Power turkey centerpiece my aunt painted in ceramic class in the sixties (and I won’t even speculate on what she was smoking before she went to that particular class)… |
Connie Brockway |
11/17/06 |
46 |
11/21/06 |
| CONNIE TELLS YOU HOW TO SOUTH PARK YOURSELF |
A friend gave me the site address where you can turn yourself into a South Park character. So I turned me into a Hunting Connie and Jenn Lind, the heroine of HOT DISH, into a “Caught in Fawn Lake with No Way Out” character. I also made Elizabeth, Teresa, Christina and… |
Connie Brockway |
11/13/06 |
11 |
11/15/06 |
| CONNIE TALKS UNEXPECTED HEARTTHROBS |
Well, now that Kitty has sunk back into whatever tequila induced oblivion she’s currently inhabiting, let’s play! Reading the comments under Kitty’s so-called interview, I was struck by how many times I’ve been caught off guard by a case of character infatuation. They creep up on you unexpectedly, this desire to… |
Connie Brockway |
11/09/06 |
88 |
11/22/06 |