As per Dear Author’s post today - congrats to Emma aka Meredith - for winning the Gather.com First Chapters Romance Writing Competition. She wins a $5000 advance from Simon & Schuster and her book will be published by S&S’s Pocket Books division. Her book The Shadow’s Kiss will be released in spring 2008. You can read chapters 1 and 2 on Meredith’s Gather.com page.
Second place went to Starr Toth, for her entry Trust Me, which will be published next fall. You can read her chapters online, too.
Way to go Emma & Starr!
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I’m afraid I don’t know the title of this book either, but I do appreciate the interesting deviation to the history of contraception. ~ ;)
Everyone seems to be in agreement that the “simple misunderstanding” plot is hair-ripping…
Some people just can’t talk their things out.
It is true that some people can’t talk directly about sex, and this was a very common problem in the past; many women, especially, did not even know the words to…
The singing woman made me want to ice pick my eardrums… it was amusing, but torture to my ears…
From Friday Videos Love Men on Horses, Old Spice, and John Denver
For some reason I always felt that Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts would fit Old Spice better. :)
From Friday Videos Love Men on Horses, Old Spice, and John Denver
Snatch Diamonds?
