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Excellent work, ladies!  Thanks for sharing this with us.  I look forward to hearing more about Mr. Tolme in the future.

Damn he’s loves ferrets and he is cute too! Oh Paul, I think you just became Romance hero fodder.

Some guys got all the luck.

I love the book Northern Lights!!  Hopefully he will too.  I have to say that I love Mr. Tolme’s writing voice.

Excellent interview - and great choice of book to send him. Hope he’ll check back in and let us know what he thinks.

Good questions and good answers—and I hope we hear back from him after he reads Nora.

Hmmm.  Great interview and perfect book choice as it is a great example of how to incorporate research into a story without clubbing the reader over the head with it.  Too bad Nora hasn’t written anything with ferrets…

Sherb

ideas41...Hey, Nora!  My spam blocker is suggesting a ferret idea, I think!

Great article, great book rec, but I’m having trouble with his comment about “I would be really pissed off, and I have been, if it was a journalist [who plagiarized], like Jayson Blair and others.”

It seems like the old cliche about the wife being ok with her husband having casual affairs with strangers but being beyond livid because he slept with her best friend.

I think the idea of a journalist plagiarizing him would be more upsetting is because they’re in competition in a way he isn’t with Cassie Edwards. Not that they aren’t both bound by the rules against plagiarism, but her theft isn’t taking food off his plate or work out of his inbox the way a journalist stealing his words might.

Great interview, and a great book choice. I love that one.

Wow.  That new pic is top notch!  I’m not usually into journalists...but he’s definitely hero fodder with those “piercing auquamarine eyes”.

spam word: single63.  Neither, actually...more like taken30…

It’s a great book choice, definitely, and I certainly hope he gets hooked into romance. There’s nothing wrong with expanding one’s horizons, after all.

On the plagiarism issue, I agree with Jennie--stealing is stealing, and while CE didn’t take food from his plate, so to speak, she still took what wasn’t hers and sold it. It’s wrong, period.

SBSarah, perhaps you and Candy, and the Dear Author ladies should help him with the plagiarism article--you’ve done a lot of the work already.

spamfoiler: him48. Oh yeah *grin*

Well sure, I don’t think anyone’s saying it’s not wrong, period. I’m just suggesting that there’s a reason beyond mere sentiment why he would feel differently about another journalist plagiarizing him.

Great interview, and love the book choice.

“… this was back in the 90s when the environment wasn’t a hot topic ...”

Huh? Love Canal was what year?

I was working for an environmental engineering firm from ‘85-’95 because there were Superfund sites and state cleanup operations going on just about everywhere. (Back when, you know, the EPA actually DID SOMETHING with your tax money and made businesses and the military clean up their messes.)

It’s a sad commentary, but maybe the environment is a “hot topic” in newspapers and magazines now because it’s kind of too late already.

Har. “Nature31” is my verification!

“ Wow.  That new pic is top notch!  I’m not usually into journalists...but he’s definitely hero fodder with those “piercing auquamarine eyes”. “

They darken to teal as he passionately argues for the plights of the ferrets!

One must never forget the eye colour change. Come to think of it, there isn’t a romance novel that has taken this to ridiculous proportions, is there?

Yay on the romance novel reading! We must hook him and, like a future cigarette smoker for the first time… except no poisonous smoke.

Thank you for making this interview happen, all!

“Nature deficit disorder.” I will definitely use that one. :-)

Hypertufa, I remember the environment being a fairly hot topic in the 90s as well. But that might be because my reading material at the time included stuff like Mother Jones and the Utne Reader, a magazine whose whole purpose is to reprint articles from sources that don’t have large readerships. :-)

Poor man, he’s become the Justin Timberlake of ferret-fangirls everywhere.

captcha: filled69—hmmmm… (dirty, dirty blog)

Can I get an 8x10 glossy reprint of that photo? I’d pay (reasonable) money for it…

Devastatingly handsome and a Friend to the Animals, too? RWA needs a keynote speaker this year, don’t they?

In the meantime, she-who-shall-not-be-named had several books for sale in the racks at the local grocery store yesterday. I’m thinking some publishers are taking advantage of the publicity.

-S

“Poor man, he’s become the Justin Timberlake of ferret-fangirls everywhere.”

Well THANK you very much, Whey!
Now I’ve the tune ‘Ferret in a Box’ going throough my head.

Thanks Bitches for the picture!  Wow, he’s hot!

I’ll bet he’s gotten some very interesting and imaginative e-mails...the mind boggles…

*Mole wriggles with delight because she was the first one to suggest sending him NORTHERN LIGHTS.*

Let him read a few, and then let Eric Selinger interview him for a man-to-man talk about romance novels!

them95-- us116

*Swoon* He’s dreamy.

And I’m writing Newsweek to tell their editor that they need to talk with him about that plagiarism series. I would LOVE to read something like that--especially considering how many emails he got from others who were victims of plagiarists.

(Katie now runs off to write to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham...)

Crikey, my eyes zoomed to the pic first and I was all, “Why are they interviewing Alan Davies?!?”

But then I looked twice and realized Tolme is better looking and brainier, though not as well-known perhaps.

Thanks for giving the Bitches some time! Enjoyed the interview.

Ufdah.

Good interview.  I’m just perplexed about why a journalist/naturalist would want to pose for a Glamor Shot.  Shouldn’t he be, like, out in the wild, kinda dirty and sweaty and--most important in terms of image--nekkid?

Thank you for the interview.  I think Northern Lights was an excellent choice.

He is very nearly the perfect man, isn’t he? Hot, smart, and funny. *melts*

I remember the environment being a much bigger deal in the ‘90s than it seems to be now. Maybe what he meant was “and this was back in the ‘90’s when the environment wasn’t a hot topic TO ME. . .”

Verification word: eye69

why yes, eye most certainly would.

I completely agree and if I may add, what’s with the nighty on the US cover?  I mean, seriously, are we still in the “let me slip into something more comfortable” phase of romance novels?  Oh I can practically smell the vanilla candles…