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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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"And then it happens. I get diarrhea of the mouth"
Aw, Denise, you crack me up. I tend to do the same thing. I end up leaving thinking why on earth did you say that? Ugh. Now I have a term for it. Diarrhea of the mouth. ;) And I think it's cute how Kevin thinks you're all that! It's darling.
Know why I think the whole thing is funny? Because I can imagine doing the very same thing if I were in line and YOU were signing the book! (I just hope you would say something kind to ease my embarrassment rather than just smiling.) Well, it's good to know that you (a famous author), also get tongue-tied and run-off at the mouth in the presence of other authors. Last year I met "Sonicflood" (the rock band) and said the most inane things to the bass guitarist. Sheesh! Afterwards I wanted to crawl into a hole.
Denise, he probably only looked tired because he WAS tired. It didn't have anything to do with you. I heard Richard Paul Evans speak via tape from the Maui conference a few years ago, and he told his amazing, inspiring story of how he self-published The Christmas Box because nobody would publish it. To promote it, he did all kinds of things including "borrowing" a book signing station at the booksellers' convention. Then, several years later, Simon and Schuster came along with a multi-million dollar offer. The rest is history.
He probably was thinking, You go, girl! I'm just tired from this book tour.
Heehee.
ROFLOL!!! Denise, I'm exactly the same. When I get uncomfortable, I become motormouth. It's mortifying, but can I stop myself? NO! Sheesh. :o/
LOL.....but you're so cute you can get away with that, girl! LOL
diarrhea of the mouth...from Denise? I've only known you a few months, but I would have paid money to see that. :)
I got a book signed from William F. Buckley jr. and he didn't know my name when he signed it...thing is, his handwriting is SO BAD that if you squint just right it looks like my name.
I also had a simular situation with an author who when I began babbling simply stopped me by saying, "I really hate Science Fiction." I went from 6ft 7 to 3ft 2 in seconds...but like Kristy said, he was probably just tired.
When I was a teenager, I went to talk Michael English once (before the big scandal) after a concert and got hit with the same affliction. :D
I asked if he was glad to have his braces off and commented that I liked his hair better long. (He was sporting the slicked-back look at the time.) He said, "My wife likes it better this way." Gulp.
Open mouth. Insert foot to kneecap.
NEXT time give HIM a signed copy of your book! He'd be blessed.
I have a brain disease. Whatever enters my brain exits my mouth with no revisions. Often happens in e-mail, too. sigh. Wonder it it's a tumor?
You know, it's nice to know it's not just us non-writers that do stuff like that! I've never told them I write too, but have told authors more than they could possibly want to know!
We've discovered that we love to do family book signings. Unfortunately, everyone we do is at B&N and is a humongously long line. Most recent was Lemony Snicket . . .now there's a book signer with personality! He takes your stupid sayings and turns it into something funny.
LOL, Denise, I met Jerry Jenkins one time and I blurt out, "My mother-in-law loves your books!"
I LOVE the comment about passing out tickets for your book signings so your moms would know who goes first.LOL. (So, untrue--we love your writing.)
I just would stand there in awkward silence.
And feel bad I could not find anything to say. A little shy here.
Better to say something, then nothing. :)
Anna
A few weeks before the ACFW conference I went to a book signing with Karen Kingsbury and could barely function talking to her even though she was the sweetest thing. At least ACFW helped me get over my talking-to-real-writers fear:)
Denise, you are so funny. You could have said "I play the drums." I went to a book signing at Costco once where Sue Grafton was signing. She sprinkled "writing dust" on me so that some of her success would rub off on me. We didn't talk very long, but she was very sweet.
Pam Meyers
http://pammeyerswrites.blogspot.com
Hey Denise, You're me! I'm over here dying a thousand deaths with ya, because my mouth runneth over too. But seriously, he probably forgot you with the next book.
Wait. Did that make you feel better? Lol. Okay, so how about this: he's probably googling you right now (sounds weird, but you know what I mean, right?)
I am a huge Amy Grant fan 9since like 1980....) and back in the early 90's I went to a wedding in Nashville and Gary Chapman was singing at the wedding. Right before the ceremony I went looking for a bathroom and passed Gary in the hall and the only thing I could think to say to him was, "Is this the way to the bathroom?"
*duh*
That is too funny. I tend to not know what to say and so I don't. I would have probably stood there silent and smiled back. Then we would have been at an impasse with both of us awkwardly smiling. See - you filled in the awkward silence. :)
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