Sara - welcome to the Red Sage Publishing authors night! Since it is so close to the holidays, we will not be on protocol, but please be nice
AliceGainesChambers - Mac, if you have a Red Sage story, submit it. Red Sage is the best
Hunt4Me2 - Hello Alice
MaryJanice - Try it, Mac! Alex is lovely to write for, the books sell really well, and the money's great.
Hunt4Me2 - Hello Sara
Hunt4Me2 - /my bad i forgot EC was in at 8
Mac - I'm not quite done with her yet, but I have one in the works...about 1/2 done.
AliceGainesChambers - How long is it, Mac?
AliceGainesChambers - Or, I should say, how long will it be?
O - What insppird all the authors to write in the first place. Did you hear voices
AliceGainesChambers - Yup, O. Or to be more accurate, I've always told myself stories
Mac - So far it's only just over 10,000 words...guidelines say 20k -30k...so I'm 1/3 to 1/2 done.
AliceGainesChambers - After a while, I discovered I liked my own stories better than the ones I read
Mac - I think it was 30, anyhow...shoot, let me recheck...lol
restless pen - does Red Sage only publish the secrets anthologies?
Sara - hi, Lora and restless
AliceGainesChambers - So, I tried writing one of my own stories down, and the rest, as they say, is history
Mac - 20,000-35,000 words
MaryJanice - Scenes tend to pop into my head, full-blown. And when I get done laughing about them, I write 'em down.
AliceGainesChambers - That's all so far, restless.
Lora Leigh - Hi Sara
MaryJanice - Don't worry if it goes a bit over, Mac. Alex prefers the longer novellas.
AliceGainesChambers - Probably 30K to 35K is about right, Mac
restless pen - hiya Sara. my network went down before the last chat ended. glad I got to sneak back into this one
Kathryn Anne Dubois - To answe "o": A writer of erotica once said "Writing erotica is the only way you can cheat and still be faithful."
Mac - K...then I'm about 1/3rd done...if I could just get my fingers in gear, I could do that in no time...
AliceGainesChambers - Readers do prefer the longer novellas
O -
restless pen - ahh, Alice, you're the expert then : ) I saw someone talking about vol. 9 already.. does that mean it'd be wasted effort to try to submit to Red Sage now, if the authors for the next are already chosen?
AliceGainesChambers - Mac, you could send the first ten pages and a one page synopsis to see if she likes the story
Betsy - hey, where'd you get the icon?
AliceGainesChambers - There's always volume 10, restless
Mary f - The writers seem to prefer them as well!
MaryJanice - My husband can always tell when I've just written a sex scene. Rrrrroowwwwllll! (or was that an overshare?)
AliceGainesChambers - There's a place to click for chat icons, Betsy
MaryJanice - And 11 and 12 and 13 and 14...
AliceGainesChambers - Mine, too, MJ. He loves it
O - You want to have sex after Mary
Mary f - Gee How can he tell MJ?
AliceGainesChambers - Alex says she'll publish more often if she can
MaryJanice - Post-writing, you can just sort of leap on the DH and bring 'em down...kinda like a gazelle...
AliceGainesChambers - Like I said, he loves it
Sara - it would be nice if she can, Alice. What will it take to do that?
restless pen - maybe in your world, MaryJ.. I have a hard time dragging my fiance away from his latest video game, sex scene or no.
MaryJanice - More staff and more hours in the day.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - At a recent book signing I was at a 70 year old woman bought two of my Black Lace books for her daughters. She said they always complained that their husbands wanted sex all the time. So she suggested they read the books and get in the mood. cute, huh
AliceGainesChambers - Yeah, she may be a bit overwhelmed. But she listens to readers
restless pen - sweet grandma.
MaryJanice - Well, I'm a big girl...the same weight as my husband and only 3 inches shorter. So if I really put my mind to it, he can't stay on the computer for long. It's good to be six feet tall!
O - That is funn Katthryn
ChrisTanglen - So, really, my WIFE should be the one writing erotica!
MaryJanice - You got it, Chris.
ChrisTanglen - I knew we goofed something up.
AliceGainesChambers - I think it's so good for husbands, wives, and marriages if spouses can stay interested in sex
Sara - Kathryn, that is interesting
Betsy -
AliceGainesChambers - There ya go, Betsy!
O - Where do the authors live/
Betsy -
Sara - ah, Alice, isn't that part of the whole thing? Surely that was in the fine print, my dh says it was!
AliceGainesChambers - Chris are you a Christopher? If so, you should definitely get your wife to write erotica
Betsy - oops
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Amen to that Alice. I've been married 30 years and you have to stay creative and interested or else you might as well be siblings.
ChrisTanglen - Well, actually I'm a Jeff <g>.
Sara - oh, dear, Betsy got the icon chart
AliceGainesChambers - Some people tend to forget, Sara.
Mary f -
Betsy - what's a Jeff?
Betsy - what was I supposed to get?
AliceGainesChambers - Oddly enough, I think it's easy to let the sex slip. (Is that a Freudian slip)
MaryJanice - Good point, Kathryn. My DH and I have lots in common and have the same stupid, juvenile sense of humor...it'd be all too easy to live as sibs if we both weren't interested in his Italian sausage.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Way to go Betsy!
Betsy - Well, at least none of you probably have husbands that are thirty-two years older than you are!
MaryJanice - Shoot, I'm three months older than my DH. He's a mere infant...not even 33 yet!
O - MaryJanice
Sara - uh, not me, Betsy
AliceGainesChambers - That's the way to do it, Sara. My dh is 70 and still going strong.
Betsy - guess mine's "old" stuff
MaryJanice - Sorry, O!
Betsy - Mine is 70, too!
AliceGainesChambers - Betsy, old stuff can be good!
AliceGainesChambers - See. I told ya!
Betsy - I wasn't complaining, just bragging!
AliceGainesChambers - Of course, I'm 54.
restless pen - I've got a year on mine. It's fun being the older woman
O - Where do you authors live
Betsy - I'm 38, so far
ChrisTanglen - I'm even younger than MaryJanice's hubby.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - I live in the greater Philadelphia area
Betsy - Georgia
AliceGainesChambers - Oaktown, aka Bumpcity, aka Oakland, CA
AliceGainesChambers - I just bought my first house, ever
Lora Leigh - Eastern Kentucky, near Morehead
AliceGainesChambers - Hi, Jeanie
JeanieLondon - Hello all
Mary f - Hello Jeanie
AliceGainesChambers - Jeanie has one hot story in volume 8
MaryJanice - Give it up, Chris! How old?
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Hi Jeannie
Betsy - Hey, is Alex going to join the chat?
JeanieLondon - Hi Alice! Running late tonight
Mac - Grrrrrr, don't ya just HATE writing a synopsis?
ChrisTanglen - 31
JeanieLondon - Hi Kath
O - Do you have an Accent Lora
Betsy -
JeanieLondon - Hi Mary f
AliceGainesChambers - Alex won't join chats. She says they're for the authors.
Lora Leigh - Of course......LOL
Lora Leigh - I get laughed at all the time over it........LOL
Mac - And I'm 1 year and 2 months older than Geek.
MaryJanice - Gad! A mere infant.
ChrisTanglen - Yep. I'm far too young to be writing this kind of stuff.
Sara - hi, Jeanie,
Sara - sorry, we are not on protocol tonight -- I am watching the chat and my daughter stuff the bird
Mac - I'm 27, just turned...
Sara - this is very challenging you know!
JeanieLondon - Hello Sara! Did you get your copy yet?
restless pen - err.. you're too young, Chris? I feel like an infant
Sara - no, I didn't *POUT*
JeanieLondon - Oh, Happy Thanksgiving all! Sara, I'm lettingmy girls do the pies
JeanieLondon - All right, Sarar.It's on the way. I just picked up my inventory copies yesterday
Sara - I spent the afternoon shopping (*way fun, NOT*)
AliceGainesChambers - Ack! I still have time to do my shopping online, I hope
JeanieLondon - Hello MJ
O - What Authors do you like to read when you have a chance
Sara - for tomorrow's food, Alice?
AliceGainesChambers - No way will you get me near a store tomorrow
Sara - wow!
JeanieLondon - Amen, Alice!
Kathryn Anne Dubois - BTW, SECRETS 8 be on Waldenbooks shelves I understand?
AliceGainesChambers - carrot soup and rolls, turkey and dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole
JeanieLondon - Yep, Kath! Pretty cool, huh?
Sara - that is what I heard, Kathryn. I have the local Waldenbooks district manager to confirm -- and I am doing breakfast with him next week, so we'll see
MaryJanice - Hi, Jeanie! I loved your novella in #8. Knocked my socks off!
O - Are you inviteing everyboyd over your hose Alice that sounds good
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Great news. O, my favorite authors are Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Jennifer Cruise
Mac - Quick question about a submission to Red Sage.
MaryJanice - Oh...Secrets 8 is at #479 on the Barnes and Noble list!
Sara - he has North Texas including Dallas
AliceGainesChambers - My stepson is coming over. Maybe his girlfriend and her daughter
Mac - They want the synopsis and first 10 pages double spaced or no?
MaryJanice - Fire away, Mac.
JeanieLondon - Thanks, MJ and DITTO! Couldn't get enough of Jared and Moira
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Wow, up to 479!!!!
MaryJanice - Double spaced. Always.
AliceGainesChambers - Wow, MJ. That moved up since this afternoon
Mac - K..just checking.
MaryJanice - Thanks, Jeanie. They were fun. Love those short-tempered heroines.
JeanieLondon - Double spaced, Mac. The synopsis can be single spaced.
restless pen - what's typical response time for Red Sage?
AliceGainesChambers - doublespaced, Mac. Although I think you could single space a one page synopsis
Mac - Don't wanna screw it up overa technicallity like that....(ps, my spelling stinks)
Sara - great menu, Alice. wish mine was that simple *sigh*
Mac - Cool, cause I can't fit it all on one page if it's doubled...
ChrisTanglen - Well, I'm outta here. G'night, everyone!
MaryJanice - It really depends on how swamped Alex is. She got back to me within a month of mailing LOVE'S PRISONER, but for JARED'S WOLF it was more like 2 months.
AliceGainesChambers - I actually don't know anymore about response time. She reads her regular authors quickly, but she gets a lot of submissions now
MaryJanice - Bye, Chris!
JeanieLondon - G'night, Chris
O - Can we come over your house it sounds good Alice
Betsy - My stupid machine froze!
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Chris, do you write for Ellora's Cave?
AliceGainesChambers - My stepson will probably bring the dessert
Mary f - Night Chris
Mac - This is a shapeshifter, they'll at least consider it, right? Paranormal? ((not too familiar with what they take or don't)
Sara - night, Chris
Mac - ANd I think I have asked that at previous chats...or something...
JeanieLondon - Sure, Mac.
AliceGainesChambers - Alex does lots of paranormal. My first story was a fantasy
Mac - K...cool
Mac - <---was just rejected and feeling VERY insecure about submitting.
O - What is everyboydy working on next?
brytheamazing - I'm coming to your place for luch, Alice
MaryJanice - Alex is very open to paranormal, Mac. She's published vampire stories as well as werewolf ones.
AliceGainesChambers - Everyone gets rejected, Mac. No way you can avoid it.
JeanieLondon - That part does suck. Hugs, Mac
Sara - Mac, may I suggest you buy and read a couple of SECRETS? I think it helps to know what they normally publish. Just an FYI
AliceGainesChambers - Hop on a plane, Bry. Love to have you
Mac - They said I wasn't emotional enough, go figure that one.....I cry over everything.
JeanieLondon - EXCELLENT suggestion, Sara!
Mac - I've read one...just not all.
MaryJanice - She even rejects her current authors...I proposed Derik's Bane and she turned it down. No big deal. It's not personal.
AliceGainesChambers - Mac, it needs to be romance. Happily ever after, etc.
brytheamazing - Can I meet your snakes?
Betsy - O, I'm just trying to finish college after 20 years. 2 more semesters until I graduate and then I can start on my master's. Hopefully, I'll have more time to write then.
AliceGainesChambers - You bet, Bry. They're the sweetest creatures
brytheamazing - Damn, my private Lear Jet is in the shop
Mac - It is....**sob, sniff, sobbing more**...they just didn't read enough of it...it got better.
Sara - well, it just makes sense, to understand what they publish. Says energy and time too!
MaryJanice - O, I'm working on extending UNDEAD AND UNWED, my e-book, for Berkley. It needs to go from 50,000 words to 90,000. Only 23 pages to go! Then I'd like to do another novella for Ellora's Cave.
JeanieLondon - CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP to you Betsy!
O - What College are you going Besty
Betsy - Thanks!!! I've got straight A's and a nervous breakdown in the works.
brytheamazing - MJ, when are you starting the series about the amazing cat in UNDEAD AND UNWED???
AliceGainesChambers - Mac, you have to develop a thick skin. Otherwise, they'll just break your heart
JeanieLondon - Sheesh, MJ. I can sooo relate. My next Blaze is due on Monday and I've still got FIFTY pages to go. Have Alphasmart will travel
Mary f - Bry don't pick me up on your way!
MaryJanice - Yikes, Jeanie! That's scary. I'm nervous enough about making a 1/1/03 deadline!
Mac - Aww, it was only reject #2....I'm reworking it....and resubmitting as soon as I'm done.
Betsy - Valdosta State University
brytheamazing - As I don't have a plane, not picking you up won't be a problem, Mary ...
Mary f - (where did forget go? )
JeanieLondon - Sounds like you earned that nervous breakdown. Wear it with pride LOL!
MaryJanice - Awww, didn't I tell you, Bry? Giselle the cat got run over by a garbage truck. She's a pancake.
Mac - Actually, I was sick when the reject came in and I STILL didn't cry...so, I should be ok.
brytheamazing - I'm sure Alice wouldn't mind a few extra guests for lunch
Kathryn Anne Dubois - O, I'm working on a medieval. I sent a partial to the publisher of Red Sage and she loved it, encouraging me to finish it. About a nun she asks the hero, Count Maxwell, to deliver her from the wretched curse of her relentless sexual cravings. Delicious!
Betsy - Yeah, but I'd rather be writing something other than papers for school and poetry.
Mary f - Hey perfect for her owner now MJ!
Delyn - No!!! A Garbage Truck...
JeanieLondon - Hi Betsy, waving madly . I'm in Florida!
AliceGainesChambers - Memo to self: Buy extra turkey
brytheamazing - That's just sick, MJ. You are a perverted fiend. My fans begged for more of my feline alter ego.
Betsy - Hey, neighbor
MaryJanice - Good point, Mary f!
Kathryn Anne Dubois - I guess I'm tough, because I've got a file drawer of rejections but I don't know any published author or doesn't
MaryJanice - Hee, hee...
brytheamazing - That's fine, I'll be the vampire Scottish Fold sidekick
Betsy - where in Florida?
Mary f - ROTFLMAO
MaryJanice - Hey, writing is like any kind of sales. You get 9 no's for every one yes.
JeanieLondon - Oooh, I LOVE Medievals, Kath.Can't wait for this one!
AliceGainesChambers - Good point, MJ. I hadn't thought of it that way
Lora Leigh - Well guys, gotta bake my pies and make my candy LOL
JeanieLondon - Tampa, Betsy. I was just traveling through Valdosta in July
AliceGainesChambers - Bye, Lora
Lora Leigh - Talk to you ya'll later
MaryJanice - Bye, Lora!
brytheamazing - AND SEE IF YOU GET ANY MORE TIM TAMS OR VIOLET CRUMBLE, YOU CAT SQUASHING FIEND!!!!!!!
Delyn - MJ, didn't your heroine in U & U originally get run over by an Aztek?
Betsy - cool
JeanieLondon - Happy Thanksgiving, Lora Leigh!
Sara - night, Lora
brytheamazing - But the cat wa
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Thanks Jeanne, BTW, got god news this week. I'll be in Vol 9
MaryJanice - She still does get run over by the Aztek, Delyn.
brytheamazing - But the cat was fine, Delyn
MaryJanice - Bry, guess what? The cat has made an amazing recovery!
O - bye Lora
Mary f - Wait her owner rebounded Why not that cat?
JeanieLondon - Tee hee, Kath. I heard its FABULOUS! CONGRATULATIONS!
MaryJanice - STILL massively jealous, Kathryn.
AliceGainesChambers - Yikes, I'd better get to work if I want to be in volume 10
brytheamazing - and her shoe collection is saved, all the important stuff
MaryJanice - An undead cat?!?
O - I like Historcals Kathryn
MaryJanice - Well, she rescues her shoe collection. Big difference.
Delyn - That's what I thought... I drive an Aztek, and that tickled my funny bone when I read it.
Mary f - Start a new trend! who said they can't have pets
AliceGainesChambers - Imelda the Cat
Betsy - Hey, girls, I'm going to go watch Presidio Med after I put on warm pj's and fix some hot tea. Next time there's a chat, let me know. I plan on staying part of the family even if it takes me two more years to write something while finishing my masters.
restless pen - I'm trying to decide whether the feline scene in my WIP crosses the boundaries into bestiality. Ugh! Fine lines are a pain
JeanieLondon - Good for you and good luck, Betsy!
brytheamazing - why not, an undead cat? You have an undead shoe fetishist
Kathryn Anne Dubois - From YOU MJ that's a joke. Didn't Berkley hunt you down at Ellora's Cave recently?
MaryJanice - I love Azteks, Delyn. But I'm too poor to buy one right now, so I made it the villain in UNDEAD AND UNWED. Purely out of spite.
AliceGainesChambers - Night, Betsy. Glad you could join us
O - bye Betsey
MaryJanice - Well, um, okay, Kathryn, that's true, but still.
Betsy - Nighty-night
JeanieLondon - The editors can always pull you back, restless.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Night Betsy, you did great for a "virgin" chatter!
MaryJanice - I WANNA BE IN VOLUME 9!
restless pen - well, that's true, Jeanie : )
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Gottcha! MJ
Delyn - They've got some good prices on 2002 Azteks around here (Michigan).
MaryJanice - (My readers nearly set me on fire, having to wait 2 years for the sequel to LOVE'S PRISONER.)
Sara - night, Betsy
AliceGainesChambers - Probably too late, MJ, let's try for 10
MaryJanice - Oooh, don't tease, Delyn!
MaryJanice - Sounds like a plan, Alice. I'm not looking forward to telling the readers, though.
JeanieLondon - Get a bucket then, MJ
Hunt4Me2 - << was part of the design team for the Az's
brytheamazing - We do not like waiting for more FurBall Adventures
MaryJanice - D'oh! Jeanie, you bad girl.
Delyn - I have a 2002, can't stand the spoiler... I want a 2001 Back Window.
Hunt4Me2 - Delyn where in Michigan are u I'm near Grosse Pte
MaryJanice - They're terrific vehicles. And they look SO cool!
AliceGainesChambers - Are we talking cars or cats?
Hunt4Me2 - D the Azteks are better than the Redenvou's where u couldnt see out the back bottom the 1st year they were made
Delyn - Hunt... I'm usually deagling on chat... but most know me from the list as Delyn.
Sara - Kathryn, what will your story in 9 be about?
brytheamazing - Both, Alice
Hunt4Me2 - I'm talking GM cars
Mary f - I hope they are vehicles!
JeanieLondon - Yes, tell us, Kath. It's supposed to be AMAZING!
Mac - Ok..synopsis done..**shudder**
AliceGainesChambers - I drive a 20 year old Subaru and love it ?)
AliceGainesChambers -
Delyn - Alice, we're talking about the villian of MJ's U & U, that managed not to kill the cat.
Hunt4Me2 - << Sharon
restless pen - Ok.. shoulderblades and back hurt way too much to keep sitting up. Thank goodness for no snow tomorrow, and no shoveling. thanks to all the RS authors!
AliceGainesChambers - Thanks for coming, restless
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Sara, here is a tiny blurb!
JeanieLondon - Tee hee, restless
brytheamazing - Succinctly put, Delyn
Kathryn Anne Dubois - ) When college intern, Georgie, is lost in the Congo and rescued by the legendary and elusive wild man of the mountain, she soon determines that this terrifying and powerful specimen of male virility has never seen a woman.
JeanieLondon - Oooooooooooooh!
MaryJanice - Bye, restless!
AliceGainesChambers - Fanning myself, MJ.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Georgie figures the resesrch possibilities are endless.
Sara - oh, boy and then -- surely you have more to add?
Sara - oh, boy!
Sara - endless possiblities with a wild man!
AliceGainesChambers - Endless....oh, honnnnney!
AliceGainesChambers - Endless....oh, honnnnney!
Kathryn Anne Dubois - So the jungle thing isn't corney? Shall I tell you what Kate Duffy at Kensington said?
JeanieLondon - I'll just bet she does! And 've got to wait HOW LONG for nine?! I won't get the galleys on this one. POUT!
Sara - sure, go ahead, tell us
JeanieLondon - Oh yes, please do, then laugh REALLY hard
AliceGainesChambers - Not corney.
Sara - not corny at all!
AliceGainesChambers - Me Tarzan, you Jane
Kathryn Anne Dubois - She said. The premise begs the question "What has he been doing in the meantime.? Good point, but who cares if it's a fun read?
Mary f - He was raised under a rock?
AliceGainesChambers - It's obvious what he's been doing in the meantime. Taking care of things himself.
JeanieLondon - Absolutely, Alice, and that's the stuff dreams can be made of with a guy like Tarzan
Kathryn Anne Dubois - The "good point comment is mine, naturally she rejected it. I double submitted, but don't tell Alex. My agent submitted to Kate duffy and I submitted to Alex
AliceGainesChambers - Remember the Laura Kinsale book, For My Lady's Heart?
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Alice, exactly
Mary f - I like the idea!
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Cook book? I'm stumped. (Just kidding!)
Sara - and tarzan (as been said before) was quite a popular character -- even by himself for quite awhile
JeanieLondon - Amen, Sara, and RS deals with women's fantasies. Tarzan works for me
AliceGainesChambers - I adore Kate Duffy, but personal tastes are very subjective. I guess she just disagreed with us on this one.
Sara - I have read interesting cook books, lately, what can I tell you!
Sara - to say nothing of the numerous redos of the Tarzan legend
AliceGainesChambers - Sara, I think you're more inventive than I am.
JeanieLondon - I think sex is very subjective, Alice,don't you?
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Alice, have you submitted to Brava?
brytheamazing - Do your cookbooks have pictures, Sara?
MaryJanice - Well, I'm outta here for this month. I hope everyone has a wonderful T'giving and holiday season and peace most of all.
AliceGainesChambers - I haven't yet, Kath. I'm thinking about it
Sara - that's funny, my kids and I were discussing the Sherlock Holmes movies and story takeoffs today
Mary f - Night Alice happy holidays
AliceGainesChambers - It's about the most subjective thing in the world, Jeannie
JeanieLondon - Bye, MJ, good luck on the dead line and Happy Thanksgiving!
Sara - night, MJ
Sara - you have fun too
Delyn - Happy Holiday, MJ.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Well, it's been fun. I'm off to watch Law & Order - unbelievable writing! Happy turkey day!
JeanieLondon - I so agree. i run into it constantly with what I've been writing
AliceGainesChambers - I'd better go. The dh is giving me the evil eye about his dinner
Mary f - Night MJ
Sara - Gwen had to watch a number of SH movies for her film studies class
Sara - night all
Kathryn Anne Dubois - If you and Kate Duffy hit it off, you should. I really think the Brava are very much like Secrets
AliceGainesChambers - This was really great. Thanks to everyone.
Sara - I look forward to getting 8 soon
JeanieLondon - Night, ladies.It has been fun! Enjoy the holidays
Delyn - Night Everyone, Happy Turkey Day!
JeanieLondon - Memo to self. Post office friday
Sara - off to cook more!! lucky lucky us!
Mary f - Night Jeanie you too!
Sara - ah, Jeanie!! That would be SWEET!!! of you!!
Sara - I'll give you more marketing advice LOL
JeanieLondon - Mary f.
Kathryn Anne Dubois - Thanks for tonight, Sara. Night all!