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Thank you to the HOLY CRAP THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE of you who had fun with the Smart Bitch Romantic Suspense Blurbs Gone Wild! I’ll have to hang out with Mr. Java and his script to make more fun, huh? Woo!

And now, a special message from Roxanne St. Claire:

Two hours? Just gone.  Two hours laughing my ass off at those mad libs, trying to pick winners, which was flipping impossible.  I loved so many of them. Here are three that really caught me because they were either hysterical or possible.

Andieg (at 12:39)
Passions Succulent Thunderheads

Tanja Cilia (at 1:25)
Passion’s Blithe Thunderstorm

tracyleann (at 2:59)
Passion’s Grizzled Tornado

Congrats folks - please email me with your mailing address, and Roxanne will send you a spicy, tornadic copy of her upcoming book, Hunt Her Down.

Thank you to the many, many, nearly 200 applicants who gave me a righteous smacking lesson on how curious readers approach digital books. I have learned so much from reading your applications, such as how many forms of poetry can be created when one desires a digital reading device, and how frustrating it is for readers in locations with faraway bookshops to secure new reading material.

With no further ado, I announce the thirty Test Drivers for the Smart Bitches Sony Reader Test Drive. Many, many thanks to Sony Electronics Inc. and to Harlequin for making this program possible. 

I will be emailing the winners personally with additional details, and I will also be emailing those of you who applied and weren’t selected. I can’t tell you all adequately how amazed I was by the response, and knocked over by your creativity and eagerness to experience a different method of reading. Thank you.

The Test Drivers are:

Lesley Knieriem
Tami Moore
Mary Granade
Billie Bloebaum
Robin McDaniel
Melonie Johnson
Jeanette Cogdell
Lindsey Schmidt
Liz Montgomery
Phyllis Laatsch Wilke
Sabrina Heise
Evangeline Adams
Lee Gorton
Deanna Duffy
Kristen Painter
Tina Chaney
Nikkie Cooper
Elizabeth Krentz-Wee
Corrina Lawson
Randi Willis
Jessica Borchetta
Shannon Stacey
Jennifer Lohmann
Anita Draper
Laura Grunzinger
Karen Shepherd
Laura Phillips
John C. Bunnell
Sandra Coburn
Theresa Meyers

Spontaneous Tweetup!

Candy is in town this week, so let us gather and seek out romance heroes. Or drinks. Or both. We’ll be at The Irish Rogue, 356 W 44th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues at 5:30 pm today. Come on down - we’d love to meet you.

Come on down!

ETA: I hear from Katiebabs that tonight is $5 frozen drink night at The Irish Rogue. How roguish! Let there be slushies!

Since I poked a little fun at vaguely religious pseudonyms, and since Roxanne St. Claire isn't a pseudonym, I thought, let's have another ARC giveaway, shall we?

Yes, we shall!

Your task: more fun with romantic suspense! Using your power of Word Knowlege, use the form below to generate a title and its tagline.

As always, copy and paste your brilliant results into the comments. Two winners will be chosen to receive an advanced reader copy of Roxanne St. Claire's next book, Hunt Her Down. 24 hours, so grab the hand of your nearest male silhouette, and run, run like the wind!

Note: the results appear in a popup window, so be ye warned.

Verb, past tense:
Sharp object:
Verb, gerund (with an -ing):
Food (plural):
Verb, present tense:
Adjective:
Noun:
Adjective:
Weather formation (noun):

In a rare joint appearance, Candy and I will be on a panel today at NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute, which this year is devoted to Book, Magazine, and Digital Publishing.

The panel, which is made up of book bloggers, will discuss how publishers promote books and what we think of the state of publishing. Sorry, folks, I don’t think it’s open to the public.

But hell, if it were? It would be a Twitter-extravaganza. For one thing, I think 60% of the panel is named “Sara(h)”, which adds fuel to the theory that there are 9 people total in New York publishing, and at least two are named Sara(h). 

I’ll be the one twitching in awe at the other panelists, who include Sara Nelson, Sarah Weinman (aka, The Real @SarahW), Jessica Stockton Bangulo, Sarah Burningham, Ron Hogan, and Richard Nash.

Seriously, this panel should be so much fun and information, I hope someone tweets - or at least takes notes.