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Cissy - Ready to get started everyone?
anneGracie - And while I'm apologising, can I pass on Terri Brisbin's apologies -- she's been unable to make it and is *really* sorry.
Meesha - Cool!
Mac -
Celeste - oh lord, Cissy, don't tell me Buffy is on
Cissy - Just wait, Rose! It gets SOOOOOOoooo good. Although now I'm morally bound to suggest you chat with us instead of watching
anneGracie - Hey Celeste -- that's great. Hope you enjoy reading it.
Cissy - Yep, Celeste - see how good I'm being?
Meesha - Yes!
Celeste - I'm looking forward to all 3 stories
Rose! - LOL Cissy...I can do both this evening at least for a while!!
Cissy - Anne, I think you're our lone author tonigh for Harlequin Historicals - but that doesn't get you out of the hot seat
O - What kind of books do you write Anne
anneGracie - Yes, I used to hate short stories, but novellas are fun, I';ve decided. This was my first one and I just loved writing it
anneGracie - O -- I write regency-era historicals
Rose! -
Meesha - What are your "inspirations"?
O - My kind of books
Meesha - Do you ever draw from your own life/
anneGracie - Ulp Cissy -- I'm a terrible typsist, so when my messages turn to welsh, you'll know the stress has got to me <G>
Meesha - In a historical aspect of course
moosehog - Hi Celeste, Cissy, Denise, LadyChatterly, Mac, Meesha, O, Rose!, anneGracie,
moosehog -
Rose! - Hi Diana!
anneGracie - Meesha, I don't really know about inspirations -- I sort of find characters talking in my head and instead of going to see a shrink, I write
Meesha - Hello
Meesha - LOL
Meesha - OMG!
Meesha - What a cool way to avoid the shrink bill!
Rose! - *sigh* Now Anya's in on the act Cissy!?
O - Give us some Welsh-please Anne
anneGracie - I really like the regency era, but I'm not much of a one for all the rules and regulations -- it's the adventure thing I like. My heroines get to travel...tho this one doesn't
Cissy - Welcome everyone to our Harlequin Historicals chat! We're talking tonight with Anne Gracie about her novella, The Virtuous Widow in the anthology GIFTS OF THE SEASON
moosehog - No Sara Tonight??? ****I suppose Cissy is taping her show tonight ?
Cissy - I'm taping, Moose
Cissy - We'll be working on protocol, so if you have questions for Anne, just type ? and I'll call on you in tunr.
moosehog - ROLMFAO
O - I hope the widow is not Virtous at the end?
anneGracie - O, I just meant you couldn't read it. I do know a couple of phrases in welsh -- but I don't know how to spell them. Dioch avourr -- that means thank you -- that's the main polite stuff I know <G>
Cissy - um, turn
O -
Cissy - Ann, before we go on to Q&A, will you tell us about The Virtuous Widow?
Rose! -
O - so you know the swear words Anne
anneGracie - O -- no she tries hard, but there's no resisting that man
O -
anneGracie - Ok, THE VIRTUOUS WIDOW -- It's in GIFTS OF THE SEASON -- A Regency-era Xmas AnthologyMy story, The Virtuous Widow is about a poverty-stricken young widow, Ellie, whose little daughter leaves a candle burning in the window of their cottage "to guide my
anneGracie - Papa home" -- she's too small to remember her papa and does not understand death. The light brings instead a wounded stranger who collapses on Ellie's doorstep...and awakes in her bed with no memory...
Cissy - oh wow, Anne - sounds wonderful
Cissy - moosehog has the first question (O, Rose, O in line)
Meesha - Oh, I can feel it!
moosehog - Annie , Do you plan on ever trying a different line for Harlequin and if so ...what ??? And are you planning on coming to NY for July's RWA's big signing ???? Or ever to the US for signings?
anneGracie - Thanks, Cissy. It was one of those stories that just wrote itself, you know?
Cissy - I can already see that little girl, Anne
anneGracie - Mooshog, I did one duets -- #60, HOW THE SHERIFF WAS WON which finalised in the RT critics awards and won one.
Rose! - Me too Cissy!
moosehog - White Out ....URGH!!!
Cissy - Hi maryf Welcome to our Harlequin Historicals chat! We're talking tonight with Anne Gracie about her novella, The Virtuous Widow in the anthology GIFTS OF THE SEASON. We'll be working on protocol, so if you have questions for Anne, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
anneGracie - popped into life. She was based a little bit on a friend of mine's daughter -- there's a dedication in the front to her and to my parents, who met and fell in love on a staircase
Cissy - O has the next question (Rose, O in line)
Mac - HI, Mary
Cissy - ooh, you have to tell us that story, Anne....
mary f - Thanks Cissy. Hello Annie
Rose! - Hi Mary!
O - What inspired you to write in the first place, did you hear voices
anneGracie - My parents are verrry romantic -- they used to embarras my friends when I was a teenager, by kissing and cuddling
Meesha - How sweet!
Mac - brb, phone.
anneGracie - this story started with the image os a little girl putting a spoecial red christmas candle in a cottage window, one winter's night. She was concentrating hard not to spill and wax and wishing with all her heart.
Meesha - Cissy, can I ask a question?
O - How wonderfull
Cissy - ohhh... you're going to make me cry, Anne
Cissy - yes, Meesha, I'll put you in line
anneGracie - her mother's heart to watch her, because the child is wishing for her papa -- who is dead.
anneGracie - That was su-posed to be it breaks her mother's heart to watch her
O -
Meesha - How did you come up with your hero?
Cissy - Rose has the next question (O, Meesha, O in line)
Meesha - oops...sorry
Rose! - Anne, have you ever thought of turning any of those wonderful Welsh myth to romance?
moosehog - BRB . I am having a problem with my computer .It's acting funky . I'll log out and try to come back in and see if it helps .
Meesha - Denise, e-mail me about that site
anneGracie - He was a gift. He just came to life. He arrives in a snowstorm, no coat, no boots and wounded, and collapses on the doorstep and Ellie, the heroine, has to cope
O - Bad Bad Meesha
Meesha - I'm sorry. I'm just flying tonight
Meesha - No controle
Meesha - Sigh...A gift...
anneGracie - Rose, I'm not welsh, it was just a joke about my typing, and my friend's mom, who was welsh. I've been to north wales and love it and love any books about wales and the myths, but I'm not sure about writing it...
anneGracie - Hiya Lyn -- Lyn is another one of the authors in the anthology my story is in
Meesha - I think writing a book about that would be great!
Cissy - Hi Lyn!
O - trying to get out the hot seat Anne
Cissy - Let's interrupt the questions briefly to hear from Lyn
Lyn Stone - Hi everyone! How's it going, Annie?
Meesha - I'll shut up now
Rose! - Hmmm...I actuaklly never considered that you would have to be Welsh to do that Anne! LOL
Cissy - Lyn will you say hi to the group and tell us about hristmas Charade?
Cissy - oops, that would be Christmas Charade
anneGracie - Yes, Meesha. He's gorgeous.He was very easy to fall in love with. He's strong and independent and is endearingly sweet towards a needy little girl and her prickly mother. And protective.He was very easy to fall in love with. He's strong and independent a
Rose! - Darn! I gotta go! I hate to say goodbye...but I must!
anneGracie - Rose, not that you need to be welsh, but as a little girl I lived in scotland and that's where my imagination fires up more
Meesha - How utterly romantic!
Rose! - Bye All...THAT WORKS TOO Anne!!LOL
mary f - Night Rose
Meesha - By Rose
anneGracie - my hero keeps getting cut! to finish that sentence, he is endearingly sweet towards a needy little girl and her prickly mother. And protective
O - bye Rose
Lyn Stone - I just thought I'd drop in and say hi. Christmas Charade is a little lighter story than Anne's. More comedy. Anne, you made me laugh and cry. Every author's dream. Great story with a terrific hero and a gutsy heroine. I loved Ellie!
Meesha - Hello Lyn
Celeste - Hi Lyn
anneGracie - Lyn, I loved your Beth, too. And Jack -- mmmmm
Cissy - Hi Margret Welcome to our Harlequin Historicals chat! We're talking tonight with Anne Gracie and Lyn Stone about their novellas in the anthology GIFTS OF THE SEASON. We'll be working on protocol, so if you have questions for Anne, just type ? and I'll call on you in turn.
Cissy - O has the next question (Meesha, O in line)
O - Anne does the hero look like her husband that died?
Meesha - I was the one who asked about how she came up with her hero. He sounds so great! Was there any real inspiration for his character?
Margret -
anneGracie - No, O. The husband that diet was a rat. The little girl doesn't remember him, so the mother has told her how her daddy loved her, etc. Her daddy didn't want a useless girl, so it's a myth
Margret - poor O keeps getting bumped
Meesha - Denise, what is the title or name you are posting your manuscript under so I can look it up?
anneGracie - The husband didn't diet -- he died (sigh)
Cissy - that's okay, Anne - I bet she's going to get a real papa now, huh?
O - poor me
Cissy - must've been some diet, Anne
Meesha - OMG! True to life
Cissy - Meesha has the next question (O, Margret in line)
anneGracie - The heroine learns how different the hero is physically from her husband when she has to strip the sodden clothes from his unconscious body
Cissy - oh my, Anne
O - Oh good a naked man
Meesha - How about your heroine...How about her personality? How did you build her?
anneGracie - <G> Actually he gambled all her money away and then shot himself, leaving her and the child destitute
Meesha - naked men...I'm blushing!
Margret - got to run
Lyn Stone - That child, Amy, is wonderful. Brave little rascal and so full of hope.
Cissy - no time for your question, Margret?
anneGracie - You and the virtuous widow, both, meesha
O - I think we scared marget with the naked part
Meesha - uuummm....no longer virtuous...I lied about the virginity issue
Cissy - lol, O - I really doubt it
Meesha - I'm a ma
Meesha - Not imaculate conception
mary f - Wouldn't that be swoon in historical?
Cissy - O has the next question
anneGracie - Thanks Lyn. She was partly based on a little girl I babysat one day a week almost from birth. She was and is a great little kid
Meesha - I wish
Meesha - Quick...get the smelling salts!
O - Lynn i love your histocials when is your next one coming out
anneGracie - Nah, Mary, my heroines don't swoon. They swat!
mary f - LMAO Anne!
Meesha - LOL
anneGracie - I must admit I like the moment when the heroine leaps out of bed, scandalized to have woken in the embrace of a stranger.
O -
anneGracie - He's sitting there naked, and she orders him to cover himself...and he does...by draping a sock over... himself.
Lyn Stone - I named the kids in my book after my critique group and imagined them as children. What fun! Next historical will be out in Feb., O. It's called THE SCOT.
Cissy - LOL, Anne!
Meesha - I can't wait to read this!
anneGracie - Ohh Scots heroes are the best, Lyn. Tell us more
Lyn Stone - I love the sock, Anne. What a laugh! And just like a guy, huh?
Meesha - Nothing like a sexy scot
anneGracie - I've got an extract and the blurbs of the other novellas on my website
Cissy - Lyn and Anne, can you each tell us your favorite scene from your novella? (Anne may have just done that )
anneGracie - Lyn, do you have extracts on yours
anneGracie - Yep, that was one of my faves. I also liked the bit where he's wounded and confined to bed and has to play dolls picnic with the little girl.
Cissy - ohh, how cute
Meesha - How sweet!
Lyn Stone - My Scot is definitely sexy. And very frank. Flaunts it in his kilt, too. He's a stone carver (closet sculptor) from the Highlands who marries an English girl. This is the Feb. book. My Christmas Charade is a mistaken identity plot. The heroine and her cousin meet two men just home from the war. One is the earl. The mercenary cousin goes straight for the money. The heroine doesn't want want to marry, but figures there's nothing wrong with being friends. Ha!
Cissy - lol, Lyn
anneGracie - I just Lovvvve the phrase "flaunts it in his kilt"!
anneGracie - lovvvvve
Lyn Stone - Can you just be friends with a guy? Possible, but if he's a hunk, it's got to complicate matters, right?
Cissy - oh yeah, Lyn
Meesha - A lot!
Lyn Stone - I once titled one of my books UNDER THE KILT. Harlequin nixed that title as too suggestive and it came out as The Knight's Bride.
O - So there are 4 cuoples Lynn
mary f - Can't argue with that!
Cissy - oh, I love that title!
anneGracie - And he is a hunk, Lyn. No red-blooded girl could resist
O - That book was one of my fav Lynn the hero was so great
Meesha - I like UNDER THE KILT!
Cissy - Lyn and Anne, thanks so much for chatting with us tonight. Definitely putting GIFTS OF THE SEASON on my shopping list!
Lyn Stone - Well, there are two couple in Christmas Charade. Only one in The Scot.
Cissy - Everyone, I hope you'll stay for the Harlequin Intrigue chat that's about to start
Lyn Stone - You will love Miranda Jarrett's story, too. It's a reunion you won't forget.
O - Are the authors going to show up Cissy
anneGracie - It's been a pleasure, Cissy. And Lyn, I'm sooo glad you made it.
Lyn Stone - Bye, everyone. Loved chatting with you all. Talk to you later, Annie!
Cissy - Well, I hope so, O!
Meesha - Thank you for chatting!
O - i know Lyn website do you have one Anne
anneGracie - Thanks everyone. It's been fun
mary f - Night Anne
anneGracie - O it's http://www.annegracie.com