CB Scott-Beth - Hello! One half of CB Scott here. Cyndi will join us in a few minutes.
Celeste - oh great
Celeste - Hi gerri
gerri - Hi everyone
CB Scott-Beth - This is going to be my first 'chat'. Be gentle.
Celeste - We will be gentle, Beth...don't worory
Mac - Hi, CB
O - OH boy a virgin to torture
moosehog - BRB
Celeste - and typos (as you can already see mine) are *expected*
Mac - Hi, gerri
gerri - or cissy will pull out her whip
Celeste - Hi Cissy
Cissy - Hi all
CB Scott-Beth - Thanks, Celeste. Actually, I'm looking forward to this. As I said, Cyndi will be here soon as well.
gerri - Hi Cissy
Mac - Hi, Cissy
CB Scott-Beth - No, no! Not the whip.
O - Are you the mother and daugter team
CB Scott-Beth - No. We're friends.
CB Scott-Beth - We've been writing together for about six years
O - Do you write Historicals or lots of things
CB Scott-Beth - Right now we're concentrating on Paranormal. However, Knight of My Dreams alternates witha Medieval past life.
Celeste - now O, don't cheat as start asking questions before the chat really starts
Cissy - That's okay, Beth, we'll just chit-chat until Cyndi gets here
O - why not
Cissy - yeah, O - hang on to your questions!
CBScott-Cyndi - HELLO!!!!!!
CB Scott-Beth - I don't mind. I need the practice.
Celeste - Hi Cyndi and welcome
Cissy - Hi Cyndi - we were just talking about you
gerri - Hi cyndi
O - i will try to be good
CB Scott-Beth - Cyndi's here. hooray!
Mac - HI
O - They were saying bad things about you Cyndi
CBScott-Cyndi - Hey, how do I use the cool icons?
CBScott-Cyndi - How's everyone? We're thrilled to be here!!!
Cissy - Cyndi, you can click on "chat icons" down at the bottom of the page -- or you can ask us how to do the ones you want
CBScott-Cyndi - Oooh, good. Bad means I've been busy!
Celeste - Hi Rose
CB Scott-Beth - Hi, Rose!
Mac - Hi, Rose
gerri - Hi Rose
Cissy - Hi Rose! Welcome to our chat with C.B. Scott
Mac - Long time now chat, girl...
Rose! - //wavw Hi
Cissy - so are we ready to get started?
Mac - oops
CBScott-Cyndi - READY!
Rose! - Cissy! Glad to be here..And Buffy Was GREAT!
Mac - long time NO chat....
CB Scott-Beth - Sure!
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Cissy - wasn't it, Rose!
Delyn - Buffy was great... as I fell asleep before the end... just like I said.
Rose! - Tryly Cissy! Did you get my e-mail?
CB Scott-Beth - Should I start with a blurb about our book?
CBScott-Cyndi - Oooh, yes!
Delyn - as = and
Cissy - Welcome everyone to our chat with C.B. Scott (Cyndi and Beth). We're talking to Cyndi and Beth tonight about their latest release, KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS. We'll be working on protocol, so if you have questions for Cyndi and Beth, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
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CB Scott-Beth - 'KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS' by CB Scott… Haunted by a recurring dream of a desperate knight and maiden, Sydney Vaughn is convinced she is witnessing a past life. As history begins to repeat itself, convincing ex-cop and cynic Winn Lacey that they share the souls of ill-fated medieval lovers becomes a matter of life or death.
Cissy - Yep, Cyndi and Beth -- before we go to Q&A, will you tell us about KNIGHT OF DREAMS?
CBScott-Cyndi - How about that banner?
O - I like time travel
Celeste - very cool banner
Rose! - Thumbs up on that one! Very cool is right!
moosehog has timed out.
O - What banner all i see is a blank white
CB Scott-Beth - Glad you like the banner. So do we!
CBScott-Cyndi - We just did an article on past lives in RT. Does anyone subscribe? It's in the latest issue ....
CBScott-Cyndi - It's a fun article about our hands-on research for the story.
Delyn - November or December issue
Cissy - sounds really good!
CB Scott-Beth - Past lives. Reincarnation.
Rose! - Well I for one love the premise for a book...It is always ineresting.
Cissy - Let's go on to Q&A - We're working on protocol, so if you have questions for Cyndi and Beth, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
CB Scott-Beth - December
CBScott-Cyndi - December ... Very snowy cover.
Cissy - O has the first 2 questions (no one in line)
CBScott-Cyndi - Ready O!
O - What books have you written before?
CBScott-Cyndi - B - you want to answer first?
CB Scott-Beth - Scandalous Spirits. A humorous romance with meddling sibling ghostsghost
CB Scott-Beth - Oops. ghosts.
Cissy - meddling sibling ghosts sound fun
CBScott-Cyndi - Ghosts from the 1920s!
Mac - s
CB Scott-Beth - Lots of fun. They're from the 1920s.
Cissy - flapper ghosts?
CBScott-Cyndi - Go chase yourself! I love their lingo.
CBScott-Cyndi - Ohh, cool ghost, Mac!
CB Scott-Beth - The sister is a flapper! isadora... Izzy.
CBScott-Cyndi - One flapper ghosts with two dapper brothers ...
Cissy - ?
O -
Cissy - O has the next question (Cissy in line)
CB Scott-Beth - Our third book, Kindred Spirits comes out in December...
CBScott-Cyndi - We're writing the sequel to Scandalous Spirits now, which focuses a lot on the flapper ghost
CB Scott-Beth - It will focus on Izzy.
CBScott-Cyndi - That's Kindred Spirits....
CBScott-Cyndi - December 2003
O - What inspired you both to start wrtiting did you hear voices?
CBScott-Cyndi - Ready for O!
CB Scott-Beth - Cyndi?
Rose! - @ O...you always ask that, and i live it!
CBScott-Cyndi - We both read voraciously as kids, and when we were teenagers, we were romance fanatics!
CBScott-Cyndi - We tried out hands at it, and met in 1996, when we decided to write together.
CB Scott-Beth - after reading my first romance novel, I thought I want to do this!
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Rose! - Sisters at heart
CBScott-Cyndi - Cissy? O?
Cissy - lol, Rose
CBScott-Cyndi - Absolutely!!!!!
CB Scott-Beth - Artistic soulmates!
Celeste -
Cissy - Cissy has the next question (O, Celeste in line)
Rose! - @ Cissy!
Cissy - Can you guys tell us a little more about the hero and heroine in KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS? You said the hero's a cynic? What's she like? How do they meet?
Cissy - okay, that's more than 1 question
O - Yes it is Cissy
Rose! - Yeah, but you ask good 's Cissy.
CB Scott-Beth - There are actually two sets of heroes/heroines. Present and past. But their personalities mirror each other.
CB Scott-Beth - Cyndi are you fielding this one?
Cissy - ooh, so tell us about them
O - Wow that sounds good
Cissy - thanks, Rose - I try
CBScott-Cyndi - The hero is an ex-cop with a chip on his shoulder. The heroine a waitress just trying to make a living and doing the right thing buyt.
CBScott-Cyndi - But then these strange dreams just overtake her.
CBScott-Cyndi - Those are the present hero and heroine.
CBScott-Cyndi - Beth ... want to talk about the past?
CB Scott-Beth - in his past life Winn was Baldric the Immortal. A knight.
Cissy - um, but not so immortal, huh? If it was a *past* life
CB Scott-Beth - He's been enlisted to escort Gillian to her betrothed.
Cissy - how do they meet, Cyndi?
Mac - LOL
Mac -
Cissy - ohh... star-crossed lovers, Beth?
CBScott-Cyndi - Oh, cool Knight, Mac. Yeah!
CB Scott-Beth - Yes. Gillian believes her betrothed to be a murderer.
CBScott-Cyndi - In the present, Winn is hired by Sydney's--our heroine--eccentric aunt to rig Sydney's farmohouse with a burglar alarm. She has a stalker!
Rose! - that would you out!
Cissy - O has the next question (Celeste in line)
Rose! - What she needs is a
O - Where did you two meet and why did you decide to write together
CBScott-Cyndi - A wolf in the moonlight ... or hot hero to make her howl ...
Rose! - BOTH!!! LOL
CB Scott-Beth - We met at a writers organization.
Celeste - lol Cyndi
Delyn - Cissy, didn't Rose have a question before Celeste?
Mac - LOL
CBScott-Cyndi - We met at our first New Jersey Romance Writers meeting in 1996. We became critique partners then moved on to writing together. Hey, Beth, tell how we started writing together...
Cissy - oops, if she did, I missed it. Rose, do you have a question?
Rose! - I can wait...
CBScott-Cyndi - Does a cat rubbing against my leg and leaving fur trails almost count for a wolf ?
Cissy - do you want to be put in line, Rose?
CB Scott-Beth - We had opposite strengths. Similar styles...
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Cissy - if it does, then I have 2 wolves, Cyndi
CB Scott-Beth - I asked Cyndi if she'd like to try to write togther...
CBScott-Cyndi - His back is wet. Should I be nervous?
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CB Scott-Beth - She thought about it... for three seconds... said, Yes!
Rose! - Whenever Cissy! I am fairly patient! LOL
CBScott-Cyndi - I don't know what he's been into....
Cissy - Celeste has the next question (Rose in line)
Celeste - Please forgive me if this has been asked (I had to step away for a few minutes), but whay promoted you to write paranormal (assuming all your books are paranormal)?
Rose! -
CB Scott-Beth - So far all of our books are paranormal.
CBScott-Cyndi - Paranormal seems to come naturally to us. It's really all we've entertained. I think it's the magic. We love fantasy and humor and twisting things to how we want them to be. We seem to mix all our stories with past and present themes ... just in different ways.
Celeste - I happen to like paranormal
CBScott-Cyndi - Whether ghosts from the 20s in present times, or past lives, or time travel, or whatever!
Celeste -
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CB Scott-Beth - We're glad to hear that, Celeste!
Cissy - Rose has the next question (Celeste, O in line)
Rose! - I was just wondering if any of the books had paralells in you own lives.
CB Scott-Beth - Interesting thought.
CBScott-Cyndi - All of our writing definitely reflects elements of our own experience and knowledge and hopes and dreams.
CB Scott-Beth - Well... we do believe in past lives.
CB Scott-Beth - And ghosts.
CBScott-Cyndi - Even if only a tiny element.
CBScott-Cyndi - For example, Beth had some very interesting past life regression memories, which lead to our latest...KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS.
Cissy - oh, how cool!
Cissy - tell us, Beth
Rose! - Hmmmm....That is what I thought!!!
O - Ok give Beth
CBScott-Cyndi - In Scandalous Spirits, it's all the little nuances and wacky family experiences.
CB Scott-Beth - But it's in the article that we wrote for December's Romantic Times.
CBScott-Cyndi - In the December RT, our past life experiences are delivered in juicy detail!
Cissy - oh, motive to pick it up!
Mac - HI, Mary
Cissy - Hi maryf Welcome to our chat with C.B. Scott (Cyndi and Beth). We're talking to Cyndi and Beth tonight about their latest release, KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS. We're working on protocol, so if you have questions for Cyndi and Beth, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
mary f - Hello Everyone
Cissy - Celeste has the next question (O in line)
CBScott-Cyndi - Mac, is there some sloppy icon we can throw in here?
Rose! - Hi Mary!
Mac - Hmm... ?...Umm... ....lol
Celeste - is the present day heroine the only one having the *dreams* or does Winn also?
CBScott-Cyndi - PERFECT!!!!!!
Mac - .... ?
Rose! - My thoughts exactly Mac!
Mac - I think I covered just about all of it....lol
CB Scott-Beth - Winn is ahving dreams. But he doesn't remember them like Sydney.
CBScott-Cyndi - When Winn arrives at Sydney's farmhouse, he starts to experience feelings and dreams ... of course he wants nothing to do with them! Back! Back!
CBScott-Cyndi - HOWDY, par'dner!
Celeste - stuborn male that I'm sure he is
CBScott-Cyndi - But of course!
CB Scott-Beth - Very stubborn!
CBScott-Cyndi - He's so hot though, that we'll forgive him. Yeah!
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CB Scott-Beth - I must confee he makes my knees weak.
Mac - Well, I could have put in ...then some of the food icons...
CB Scott-Beth - I mean, confess. Geesh!
CBScott-Cyndi - Nothing like a brooding male with a sense of humor around to protect you and stir up your dreams! Help me!
Cissy - O has the next question (Cissy in line)
Cissy - ooh, Cyndi - you just described my perfect hero!
CBScott-Cyndi - Oh yeah!
O - What authors do you read when you two have a chance
CB Scott-Beth - iris Johanson. Jennifer Cruise...
Rose! - ..goddess and he is all set!!!
CB Scott-Beth - Julie Garwood...
Rose! - is what I meant....
O - Never hear of Iriws Johanson
CBScott-Cyndi - Love Janet Evanovich, Anne Rice, Carl Hiaasen, SEP, Jennifer Cruise, Stephen King
CB Scott-Beth - To many to name!!
Cissy - lol, Rose
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CBScott-Cyndi - Oh, and Alice Hoffman. Pure magic!
O - Steve King?
CBScott-Cyndi - Stephen King. Loved Hearts in Atlantis.
CBScott-Cyndi - Especially the story with the little boy.
Cissy - Cyndi and Beth what's your favorite scene(s) in this book?
CBScott-Cyndi - Oh, wow, hmm.... let's see....
CB Scott-Beth - My favorite scene takes place in the Medieval story...
CB Scott-Beth - Baldric caries Gillian into the forest...
CB Scott-Beth - urges her to speak her true heart...
CBScott-Cyndi - I love two scenes. One when the hero is drinking on Sydney's front porch swing on a hot night. The other is when they make love in the past. It alwasy brings tears to my eyes.
CB Scott-Beth - he is desperately in love with her and can't believe she doesn't feel the same.
Cissy - what does she tell him, Beth?
CB Scott-Beth - Hmmm. Should I spoil it?
CBScott-Cyndi - Of course, then there's Simon, Baldric's brother. Yow. Beautiful but hard as a rock. You know he just needs a good woman .... me! me! me!
Cissy - ooh... does he get a book too?
CBScott-Cyndi - No! But she is afraid because of her duty to her father.
CB Scott-Beth - Let's just say that she fears if she speaks her heart it would mean the death of Baldric.
CBScott-Cyndi - We're contemplating, Cissy. We're waiting to hear back from readers ...
Cissy -
Celeste - I love spin off books
Cissy - so if we all read KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS and write you clamoring for Simon, you might write him?
CBScott-Cyndi - Beth?
CB Scott-Beth - I love Simon!
CB Scott-Beth - Clamor away!
CBScott-Cyndi - Please!
Cissy - O has the last question
mary f - I like spin offs as well, it's like visiting old friends
CB Scott-Beth - Speaking of which, we would love to hear from all of you after you read KOMD.
O - Do you ever get into a fight over what to write
CBScott-Cyndi - We love spin-offs too. We're working on one now from the first book! They're like family!
CB Scott-Beth - Last question? I was just getting the hang of this!
CB Scott-Beth - No. We never fight.
O - You both have to come back
Rose! - *HUGE SIGH*
gerri has timed out.
CB Scott-Beth - We would love to come back.
CBScott-Cyndi - We rarely disagree. If we, however, have a different vision here and there, we talk it out. It's always what's best for the story. It's also what makes it so interesting and fun!
Rose! - I Simons!
CBScott-Cyndi - We'd love to come back!!!!!
CBScott-Cyndi - I'm with you Rose!
Rose! - I bet it makes for some interesting plot twists too!
Cissy - You're welcome back any time, Cyndi and Beth!
Celeste - do you two live close to each other or are you colaborations (sp) via phone and email?
CBScott-Cyndi - Oh yeah!!!! Those hard right turns. Hold on!
CB Scott-Beth - We live about three hours apart.
CB Scott-Beth - A lot of emails!
CBScott-Cyndi - Hey, visit our web site if you get the chance. We're running a contest! www.cbscottbooks.com ... Beth is the prize pic up yet?
Cissy - Cyndi and Beth, thanks for a great chat tonight! KNIGHT OF MY DREAMS sounds wonderful. Why don't you tell everyone where they can find it?
CBScott-Cyndi - Emails, emails, emails!!!!!
CB Scott-Beth - Yes, the pic is up. A knight of course!
O - At bookstore where they sell book Cissy
CB Scott-Beth - You can buy our books at imajinnbooks.com or amazon.com
CBScott-Cyndi - www.imajinnbooks.com or amazon or bn.com or special order through your local bookstore. ISBN #1-893896-85-4
CB Scott-Beth - or barnesandnoble.com
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Cissy - not exactly, O
CB Scott-Beth - Thank you, everyone!
Cissy - Thank you both for coming - come back and chat with us again soon.
CBScott-Cyndi - Oh, the pewter knight on amathyst rocks! Seriously! Enter! You don't want to miss this!
Cissy - Not kicking you out, btw, just bringing the "official" portion of the chat to a close. Feel free to hang out and talk
CBScott-Cyndi - Thank you, everyone! this was so GREAT! I want to leave with a flaming sword icon but don't know how to do one! Next time!!!!
CB Scott-Beth - Will do! Thanks for being 'gentle'!
Celeste - thanks for chatting with us Beth and Cyndi
CBScott-Cyndi - So dramatic ...
CBScott-Cyndi - Thank you!
O - Is the Knight full automic correct?
mary f - At the site now looks like fun!
CBScott-Cyndi - Hmmm, O. Haven't looked under the armor. Beth?
Rose! - Thanks C&B!!!
CB Scott-Beth - I'll never tell. "
Delyn - OK, who punched Winn in the excerpt?
CBScott-Cyndi - There is a sword ...
CBScott-Cyndi - Sydney's boyfriend ...
Delyn - Thank you
CB Scott-Beth - The plot thickens...
O - Who last name is Scott?
CBScott-Cyndi - It's a combo of both our last names.
mary f - OH! Saw the prize pic very nice!
Delyn - I thought maybe Sydney changed her mind mid-stream.
CB Scott-Beth - It's even more awesome in person!
CBScott-Cyndi - Sydney is definitely confused but she recognizes hunk-o-rama ....
CBScott-Cyndi -
CB Scott-Beth - If you like twists and turns, you'll like this story.
CBScott-Cyndi - Beth, can I enter the contest? I want one!
CB Scott-Beth - keep your mitts off! He's mine!
Rose! - LOL @ Cyndi!
CBScott-Cyndi - Hey
CB Scott-Beth - Oh, all right. I'll give him up to the winner. But until then...
CBScott-Cyndi - OK, maybe we'll fight over this....
mary f - Sounds great LMAO!