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August 2008
Blogging Freestyle
Sunday, 31 August 2008 9:54 A GMT-06
I am filled with dread watching the news coverage about Gustave. My thoughts and best wishes are with everyone in the hurricane's path. (And I'm wondering also, if the pets will be left behind as they were with Katrina. Wasn
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Vicky Bliss is Back!
Saturday, 30 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
As some of you know, I'm a huge fan of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mystery series. In addition to her more well-known series featuring Amelia Peabody, the wonderful mystery writer, Elizabeth Peters also wrote a shorter series featu
Category: Books LinnieGayl
Trivia Contest Winner
Friday, 29 August 2008 4:39 A GMT-06
Congratulations to xx. We drew her name at random out of all of the correct entries in the contest. Xx guessed correctly the answer we were looking for: I was WRONG when I guessed that Mark was the mole. Even though he won the show, th
Category: Contests
RWAus Conference Run-Down - Part II
Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:46 P GMT-06
Saturday morning dawned bright and way too early for those of us who celebrated the start of another conference at the Cocktail party on Friday night. Luckily, however, it started with a breakfast buffet and some fantastic news for a local author. Tr
Mad Men: The AAR Contest
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 9:41 A GMT-06
Okay, so smoking is not cool. But Don Draper certainly is when he whips out his Zippo.And, thanks to AMC, you've got a chance to win an ultra cool Mad Men Zippo lighter.
As promised, RWAus cocktail party photos...
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:24 P GMT-06
Do I look like a tree to you?The Happily Ever After girls with Romantic Book of the Year nominees Anna Campbell and Tamara McKinley Tamara McKinley, Stephanie Laurens, Anne Gracie and Marion Lennox in their cocktail finery. What's a ba
Category: Travel
Romance Writers of Australia Run-Down, part 1
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
This year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference was held over the past weekend in Australia’s cultural capital, Melbourne (Sydney-siders will probably disagree, but we Melbournites know better). The beautiful Langham hotel played ho
Trivia Contest -- Win Four Romantic Suspense Novels
Monday, 25 August 2008 7:26 A GMT-06
Happy Monday! We're back with yet another AAR After Hours trivia contest. This week, one lucky reader will win the following four romantic suspense: Blood Sport by Judith French, Destiny Bay by Sarah Abbot, Faceless by Debra Webb, an
Mad Men on Parenting
Sunday, 24 August 2008 8:07 A GMT-06
Betty and Don Draper suck. Really and truly suck at the most complicated job in the world.Okay, so I am a victim child of that generation and I've got my own baggage, so I found myself squirming - almost literally - by the show's take o
Paris: Traveling in Europe with Lee and LinnieGayl
Saturday, 23 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
Continuing our dialog of favorite places in Europe . . . LinnieGayl: You recently did a short day trip from London to Paris. But, I know you've been in Paris a number of times before. I've actually been to Paris more times than any
Larisssa Ione Winners!
Friday, 22 August 2008 6:31 A GMT-06
We have our two winners our Pleasure Unbound giveaway! Teresa BBeki KThanks to everyone who played along and of course a big THANK YOU to Larissa for a wonderful interview!
Linda Howard Podcast
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 3:31 P GMT-06
Just click on the icon to listen to the 19-minute conversation I had with Linda Howard at the RWA conference in San Francisco. The podcast will download into your computer's iTunes or whatever vehicle you use to listen to audio files.Among
Where Should I go in London?
Tuesday, 19 August 2008 5:13 P GMT-06
I'm very excited, because in just a little over three months, I'll be heading off to London! HOORAY! Even better, I'm going to be meeting up there with my fellow pollster, LeeB. (Now, if we could just get our third pollster, Cindy,
Category: LinnieGayl Travel
Trivia Contest and Interview with Larissa Ione
Monday, 18 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
Hi, it’s LeeB., with another AAR After Hours trivia contest. This week we have an interview with Larissa Ione:AAR: How did you come up for the idea, Pleasure Unbound? Did you have a series in mind when you started writing this book? Laris
Mad Men: Maybe I Was a Bit Hasty
Sunday, 17 August 2008 2:25 P GMT-06
Gee, yepperr, it's time rethink that whole Don Draper, Defender of Women thing. Because no matter how low the woman was (and she was), he sexually assaulted her. And there's just no way around that.Don'
I am not a shoplifter!
Saturday, 16 August 2008 7:43 A GMT-06
For the past month or so, I seemed to be randomly setting off those shoplifting alarms in stores all around the city. It never happened when I would walk into a store (as oh so many store guards asked me), but when I would walk out. It happene
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American Idol: The Concert
Friday, 15 August 2008 8:04 A GMT-06
Last night any remaining shreds of coolness I might have been holding on to by the proverbial thread were eradicated. Yes, I attended the American Idol concert with my equally uncool friend Lavinia and her husband. And, no, the kids didn&
Trivia Contest Winner
Friday, 15 August 2008 4:57 A GMT-06
Congratulations to xx. We drew her name at random out of all of the correct entries in the contest. Xx guessed correctly the answer we were looking for: when Sandy C went on a glom of some her her pre-teen and teen HP favorites, the first a
Category: Contests
Sad Panda News Again This Year
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 10:13 A GMT-06
No cub in 2008. Details are here.National Zoo vets think Mei Xiang may have experienced a miscarriage instead of a pseudopregnancy. My gut tells me they are right. In the wake of Mei's sad news, I thought it would be
Category: Sandy C.
What Happened to the Perfect 10?
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
I'm so confused. One of my favorite sports in the summer Olympics is gymnastics. I enjoy watching both the men and women compete. My favorite events for the women are the floor exercise and the uneven parallel bars. For the men, I love to w
Category: LinnieGayl
New STL for September - African American romances
Monday, 11 August 2008 6:44 P GMT-06
For AAR's September Special Title Listings update, I will be putting together a list of African-American romances and am looking for suggestions for this list. Since there are a significant number of these romances regularly published, I
Weekly Trivia Contest
Monday, 11 August 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
Happy Monday! We're back with yet another AAR After Hours trivia contest. This week, one lucky reader will win the following four books: Melanie Jackson's A Curious Affair, Nalini Singh's Mine to Possess, Marie Phillips' Gods B
Mad Men: Don Draper, Defender of Women?
Sunday, 10 August 2008 11:49 A GMT-06
Of all the twists and turns of this most excellent new seaon of Mad Men, I find myself incredibly intrigued with Don Draper's metamorphisis into a 1960s version of an enlightened man to be most intriguing.Clearly, he and Betty have come to some k
Thoughts on the Olympics - One Day In
Saturday, 9 August 2008 7:37 A GMT-06
One day into the Olympics, I have a number of random thoughts running through my head. First, I realize just how lucky I am to live in a part of the country (bordering Canada) where I have the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) as one of my cabl
Category: TV LinnieGayl