Sigh–Erin tagged me. I have no clue how I’ll answer this stuff. I had to ask WHO SEP was. I don’t know how I’ve survived this long in the romance writing world with how little I know. I should be shunned by my peers and snubbed at public gatherings. LOL

Anyhoodles–here goes.

Contemporary, Historical, or Paranormal?
Used to LOVE historicals–but tapped out on those. So love contemps and paranormals.

Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback?
Trade or mass–I also had to ask what THESE were not so long ago. LOLLOL. I knew there were big and small books, but I didn’t know they had specific names. I thought the bigger books were just LONGER. I know, I know–don’t throw shit at me.

Heyer or Austen?
Austen

Amazon or Brick and Mortar?
I have never bught a single thing from Amazon–I hang my head in utter shame…

First romance novel you ever remember reading?
Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Wodiwiss

Alphabetize by author Alphabetize by title or random?
er, in a box? Does that count as random?

Keep, Throw Away or Sell?
Um, I give it away to the library or to my mom. I don’t know where it goes from there. LOL

Read with dustjacket or remove it?
Off, they make me NUTS!

Sookie Stackhouse or Anita Blake?
God, the entire world is going to beat me up for this–neither. Haven’t read either of them. Do NOT throw things! it’s unlady-like. LMAO

Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
tired

“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
Both

Crusie or SEP?
OY–see above answer for Sookie and Anita. I just need to get out more. LOLLOL

Buy or Borrow?
buy and borrow from mom

Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse?
Recommendation for sure and browse. Once in a very blue moon a review will make me go buy something though

Tidy ending or Cliffhanger?
Tidy unless it’s a series. Then I want that one wrapped up before I begin the next one in the series.

Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?
anytime

Series or standalone?
I love it ALL.

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
um, I dunno. I know in the erotic genre I love Chris Tanglen. I don’t hear much about him these days, but when I reviewed I read his book Aunt Penelope’s Harem and nearly wet my pants. That ain’t easy because I hardly EVER laugh. Though, he could be wildly popular and I would never know because I live under a rock. LMAO

and I don’t know who to tag. Maura?

That perfectly describes my mom. She’s a zealot about some stuff and it makes me NUTS. it’s probably why I’m so not controversial. Sometimes I can’t see what the fuss is all about.

However, my mother, now 71, is bored and she loves, loves, loves a good spar like the mob loves cement mixers.

So I get a note the other day from our hood association. No trash cans can be visible from the road. I thought well, huh. How stupid. it’s not like I’m standing naked by the fence or anything. THEN I could see the problem. Surely complaints would come in in droves.

Then I notice all my other neighbors have theirs out by their fences too and I think, another HUH. But like the dutiful, non-controversial woman I am, I put it behind the fence.

Well, mom wants to know WHY–she read the letter as meaning we can’t leave the trash can at the end of the driveway because my son forgot to bring it up. I disagree and she then points out that all the other neighbors have theirs out… so HAH!

So I say, well, how about we avoid a problem and live in peace with the association, k?

Er, not so okay. Mom trudges over to the neighbors, steam pouring from her ears and comes back 20 minutes later. Indeed, they did mean our can should be behind the fence. And the entire neighborhood is in an uproar. They all got letters too.

For the love of GOD–over trash cans? Now I agree, it’s a PITA to drag it in and out–it tears up the grass ect, but come on.

I say to mom that these association people are like the kids who didn’t get nominated in HS for class president. They have nothing better to do than drive around the hood and LOOK for trouble. However, we are NOT getting involved.

Oh, really, says mom with a firm set of her lips and a narrowed gaze at ME.

I can see it now–petitions, naked picketing, uprisings against the evil, dark force that is THE ASSOCIATION…

I told her we’d compromise. We’ll do a silent protest and put our can BACk out in front of the fence, but if she gets involved, I’m going to yank her esophegous (SP?) out through her nostrils.

Do you feel that was too harsh? LOLLOLLOLLOL

DC