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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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I'm dying here!!! :) Di, we have an ENORMOUS front porch. Nice porch furniture, too. And a hammock. Gorgeous flowers galore. And BEES, WASPS, and MOSQUITOES starting some years as early as February! I have a scene about my protag's insect phobia. She loves landscaping and "serene" garden settings with benches, but her poor hubby has to do all the work. And she won't go "out there."
Those buggers absolutely dive bomb me, too. They don't go near Doug or the kids. And I don't eat DeBrand! (Or any brand, Ha!)
Katy www.fallible.com
Dave attracts mosquitoes like that. They don't bother me nearly as much.
I've got one word for you, Di. Arizona. No mosquitoes in the desert. You could do a little oasis out there with colored gravel and flowers. LOL
I am bug feed too. I enjoy sitting outside but once the bugs come it's horrible. They make it look so nice on tv and in period films, no one is ever swatting bugs away. I'm thinking I should have a huge screened in yard.
Ewww and June bugs will be appearing soon...ick ick ick.
I'm so like you, Di! I like the IDEA of sitting outside. But the reality (bugs, spiders, bees, and did I mention, spiders?)does not live up to my fantasy. I'm pretty sure heaven won't have bugs.
C, stop trying to lure Di to AZ with you. She's staying here with me.
My husband's been transforming our deck and backyard. So far, it's beautiful. We've enjoyed some great times out there. But come summer down here in Florida, we'll retreat to either the lanai (porch) or inside. I, too, am mosquito bait, whereas they never bother him.
Bugs? Swatting? When we visited the Connor Prairie compound in Indiana (I think that's the name of it; you would know), where it's a village from the 1800s and people in period costume are at all the houses, shops, etc., it was born home to me how many BUGS the people in the 1800s had to contend with. At one house, a lady was making a real dinner over an open fireplace, and the windows were open, and the flies on the table were profuse. She had to keep swatting them as she labored. I pictured the historical fiction we authors write: "And she pressed the crust to the tin then swatted the flies away...."
After seeing that, I'd think every other line in historical fiction would have to address the bugs. :)
Great post! (Your writing strikes such a cord in readers' hearts, I, for one, feel like you've had a one-on-one conversation with me, and that's what provokes my long comments every time you post.) :)
LOL, Katy! We must be sweet since the bugs love us. *g*
No bugs in Arizona, C? Well, why didn't you say so before? Denise and I BOTH will join you! Right, D? D?????
Oh my goodness, Suzanne, don't even get me started on June bugs!!! I'm TERRIFIED of June bugs. Long story, but trust me on this, if I see one, they're history.
Yes, Kristy, that's Connor Prairie. I could just see what you were describing. Something we don't think about when we're writing our historicals, huh? Bugs. We'd all like to forget them. :-)
Thanks, by the way, for your encouraging words!
I'm with you, girl. When I lived in Califonia, bugs weren't a big deal. But when we moved to Georgia, thay became a BIG deal. They are HUGE down here!
I stepped on one by mistake, and it screamed at me. Literally! It made the most awful sound.
At the tennis court, I saw one so large, I thought I was in Africa. If I'd stepped on that one, it would have carried me away.
Nope, the only time to be outside in the South during the Spring and Summer, is in the morning hours. By noon, you'd better scoot, or you'll become prey.
Oh, one thing more. If y'all'd eat more garlic, those pesky mosquitos would leave y'all alone. One cannot eat too much garlic. :o)
I agree with Ane on the garlic thing. Mmm I love garlic! I use it most every day and have taken to smashing it with a knife and my wrist (like they do on the Food Network) so much that my wrist permanantly smells like garlic. How's that for a fine fragrance? LOL
Not a big bug fan myself, but our movie shoot will take us deep into several local forests...there will be bugs.
Sigh. I wear bug spray like other women wear cologne. I agree: bugs are the pits. We don't have screens on our windows (it's a Turkish thing)and we have no air conditioning. You get the picture. I can ignore just about anything except a buzzing mosquito in the middle of the night!
P.S. Diann, a month or so back when you were writing about the books overtaking the house, I commented that my 12th graders were having a used book sale. Well, they raised more than $700 dollars! On Wednesday, their gift to the school--a foosball table--was delivered. Very exciting stuff! We're picking up the two microwaves this weekend. :0}
May I say that I, too, attract mosqitoes like a college student to coffee. Not only do they love me, my bites always turn bright red, swell up to the size of quarters, and the itching? Well, let's not go there. My solution: avoid the outdoors in the evening at all costs. We are going to Mozambique in June and I think I might need to triple up on the malaria meds...just in case ;)
Oh my goodness, Pam, that's fabulous what the kids were able to raise in that used book sale!!!! Congratulations!!!
LOL! I always think I'll just sit outside and enjoy the sunshine while my boys play. Then, I continually find myself glancing all around searching for bugs. I don't want to share my space with anything crawling, hopping or buzzing.
I killed four spiders today. Score 4 points for (wo)man! Then I beat a hasty retreat. LOL!
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