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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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Well, Diann, since it sounds like your friday nights are hipper than mine and my husbands I can't say I feel for you...LOL. We're still in the raising a family stage where an evening out is few and far between But I must say you have given me much to look forward too. ;)
ROFLOL! Di, give midget car racing a try. That's a hoot.
Or do like us ... ride motorcycles. Ginny Smityh and I keep saying we're going to get together with our hubbies to ride the Blueridge.
That'll put a spark back in the old Fridays nights. I'll even lend you my leather jacket. ;)
Midget car racing, what's that?
He has a small motorcycle, but the thought of being on the back of that thing--well, it just drives me to chocolate, that's all. Besides, my helmet weighs more than I do. Everytime I get on the cycle, I teeter off. There has to be a better way to spend my Friday nights.
The leather jacket is pretty tempting . . . .
Okay. Two months' worth of ideas that you and your hubby can do together, since you asked. (Your last name IS Hunt, after all.)
Week 1: Go down to Baja and hunt iguanas. (This may have to be an overnighter. Or two.)
Week 2: Skin slain iguana from said hunt in #1. Take iguana carcass to meat cut-up plant.
Week 3: Field phone calls from meat cut-up plant employees, who've never tackled an iguana before and don't know where to find the steaks.
Week 4: Pick up iguana meat, all nicely packaged. Place in freezer.
Week 5: Decide where to put the iguana skin in your home. Place on floor or bed or hang on wall as you determined. This may take a couple of alternate choices to find the best one.
Week 6: Develop a slide show from the photos you took on the hunt.
Week 7: Have an iguana party. Invite over your friends, show them slides of your hunt and serve iguana meat.
Week 8: Go out to dinner and decide what eye-opening adventure you shall take on next.
I have to admit, Brandilyn, that whole iguana thing is something I hadn't thought of. As tempting as all that sounds, I'm thinking I'll just stick to movies. :-)
ROTFLOL, Leanna! Is it just me, or is there a bit of nasty in your voice when you talk about laser-shooting your relatives?
My husband and I have taken up hiking beautiful trails in the evening and just talking. Then end up going somewhere and counteract your low impact exercise with a big bowl of ice cream or hot fudge choco cake.
Our more extreme dates have been mountain biking and catapulting off of boulders - but I'm guessing you're probably not going to get excited about that idea ;)
And! We like to just go to a store and browse and add things to our wish list and then come home a talk by the fireplace.
Not very creative, but lots of "talk time" which he knows I need! :)
Oh, yes ... a more creative date was when he set up a treasure hunt all over town. The treasure? him. I had no clue where he was. The customer service lady at Walmart was practically passing out by the sheer romance of being involved by handing me the next clue. I found him at a park with a rose, a date to the movies, and dinner. :)
Ok - I love date nights. What can I say? :)
Oh I have the *perfect* idea for YOU! Did you know that Bubble Yum now has CHOCOLATE BUBBLE GUM? Yes, it is true! Since Bubble Yum is owned by Hershey's and all, it is about time they did this wonderful thing for us. I hadn't seen this stuff since I was a little girl in the late '70s. I found it last week-at Bed Bath & Beyond of all places. So you can have your sweetie take you on a hunting trip for chocolate bubble gum! He'll get to hunt, you'll get the chocolate, it's all good.
And the coolest thing....blow a real big bubble so you can sniff the chocolate at the same time you're tasting it. Mmmmmmm!
Jaime those are wonderful ideas! Takes far too much energy, but still they're great ideas! *G* No doubt your husband inspires your writing!
Suzanne, that is FABULOUS news!!! Chocolate bubble gum?!!! The gift that keeps on giving. I know what we'll be doing this Friday!!
Okay, Di, you SO have to get a Nintendo Wii game! The kids got me one for my birthday and Dave and I have been playing it every night. It's an ACTIVE game, you actually stand and swing like you're bowling or golfing or whatever. Studies are showing that people lose weight with playing it 30 minutes every night.
Okay, so we are doing it like two hours, so that should make the pounds melt off, right? LOL We just use the sports game that came with it: bowling, golf, boxing, tennis, baseball. It's an absolute blast!
You know, I recently heard about that. That does sound fun!! What a hoot!! Wish I could be a little mouse and watch you two play that!!!
Since we pastor a church, we have all sorts of options for interesting evenings. :) One: The Annual Bean Auction (for sr. citizens) is a hoot. You eat bean soup and bid with beans that've been provided. I "bought" a thing that looks like a giant brass spider. It's a bona fide headscratcher. Great for a novelist plotting a novel. A pic is at: http://christianlovestories.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-in-world-is-this.html
Another: a youth "concert." Only my earplugs saved me from acquring total deafness. When the teenagers did whole body flips in front of the stage -- every chair in the building had been removed; they STAND -- well, I couldn't believe it. Head swinging with shoulder-length hair (on guys) splayed out and looking like a turkey tail (think, elementary school art projects), well, it was a sight to behold.
Diann,
Loved your description of bowling and putt-putt! LOL!
Here are my ideas:
(1) Once we bought several cheap-o copies (e.g., Wadsworth/Wordsworth or whatever-the-name-is editions) of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, invited a couple of goofy friends over, and did a read-aloud of the play. It was a blast!
(2) We've decided to "do more cultural things" this year, so we've been to a museum or two and a symphony concert. Next up: a play or the opera.
Pam
The Annual Bean Auction scares me, Kristy. Though I'm sure it's, um, fun. Okay, who am I to cast stones. We have a cow dropping contest around here. Don't ask me to explain. You just don't want to know.
What a creative idea, Pam, to do the "Importance of Being Ernest" thing! What fun!
You get funnier all the time!
Love, Rachel
LOL!! Too funny! So..here's our typical date: dinner, then to the Barnes and Noble plaza where we first hit PetSmart to pick up stuff to spoil our cats and dogs, look at the ridiculous things people buy for their pets and I try to talk Mark into clothes for the dogs. Then, over to B&N where we pick up coffee and a sinful treat at the Starbucks cafe, stalk the comfy chairs until we get two and sit with various books and magazines. When we find something good, we read it to the other. That's about it. Not very exciting, but we always have fun and great conversation. We also look for festivals in our area - Mark's favorite is Garlic Fest. Those events are always fun, although pricier than our usual dates.
Super suggestions, Andrea! Thanks to all of you who offered date ideas. I'll have you know we just got back from a seeing a great movie, and guess what I discovered!!!!!
Gourmet CHOCOLATE popcorn!!!!!! WHOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Wow. You are a really descriptive writer! Y I especially love this part: "I kept saying, “Shoo, go away little people,” but they just kept laughing viciously and zapping me with their razor sharp beams. I felt as though I was caught up in a cross between Star Trek and Zorro.". Another part I liked was the "The line waiting behind me pretty much resembled the Israelite Exodus from Egypt." I love your writing style. Nicely done! :)
Understand about the bowling. Hubby & I on one of first dates. I threw the ball, it bounced over two lanes (everyone stared as it the ball knocked down all the pins). Strike - only I made it on a league's game. After nearly 40 yrs of marriage I haven't lived it down.
We love to go out to eat on Friday nights. Saturday nights are for sitting on the sofa, me reading, him watching tv. Then we love to go to different State Pks and camp out (ok I admit it, I love our used RV). We love to sit around the campfire at night, for hours, just us, the night & hopefully a few wild animals walking by. Hopefully, only deer, raccoon, a fox or two.
Pat Moore
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