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YouTube allows me to add the same video more than once to a playlist. That is LAME.

But I’ve gone through and added as many as I could find to our playlist at our YouTube channel. If you don’t see yours on our playlist, email me please.

Thank you to all the entrants. Srsly. I’m blown away by the creativity and the effort and time you put into the competition. Thank you from the craggy bottoms of our bitchy hearts.

I’m going to be featuring a few Videomos each Friday as a bonus to Friday Videos. You can vote for your faves using the YouTube star rating feature, but the week before the winners are announced on 14 February, I’ll be hosting a vote here so you can pick your fave. Readership vote will count in the final tally as our judging panel determines the winners.

And, since the competition is fierce, enjoy this photo from contestant Victoria, who is not fooling around with this Videomo business.

Lucky Megan was the Hofftastic Holiday winner, and she was so excited to receive her Hoff Bag o’ Awesome:

I had to write and say thank you again—I received my Hoff bag in the mail the other day, and you would have thought someone sent me a million dollars! In typically “me” fashion, my sister and I staged a photo shoot with all of my loot. I’m attaching my two favorite photos—plus one regular one of me in my T-shirt, so you know I’m not a total lunatic

Photo shoot? Oh hell yeah, a photo shoot.

It’s time for the Saturday Night Liveblog!

Head on over to DearAuthor.com right this minute for another Saturday Night Live-Blog where Jane and I face off and simultaneously read and discuss a romance. Tonight’s book is Custom Ride by K.A. Mitchell, published by Hain. Sam Hain. Agent 0069. 

Awhile back I posted a message from Moreena, a reader whose daughter was undergoing liver transplants. The family stayed at nearby Kohl’s House in Chicago, which was sorely lacking in the romance department.

Moreena wrote in with an update that made my day. I can’t even tell you how awesome I think you guys are. Srsly. Y’a’ll Rule.

...we went to the Kohl’s House a few weeks back, and they were thrilled with the response they got from your readers. Let’s just say I almost miss being at the place, just for the fun bookshelf that now stands by the first-floor elevator. Also, one of your readers sent in VCR-DVD combos so that every floor can play the old VHS movies, which is a real bonus since the man who donated all those VHS movies had some rare gems (like Penelope Pitstop! Hay-yulp!). So a great big huge thank you to you for getting the word out, and to your readers for helping out.

Happy New Year and thank you to the wonderous Bitchery. And Moreena, may your daughter’s new liver fall totally in love with the rest of her metabolic system like a Greek Tycoon with his virgin secretary, minus the punishing kisses, of course. 

Head on over to DearAuthor.com tonight at 9 EST/8CST for another Saturday Night Live-Blog where Jane and I face off and simultaneously read and discuss a romance. Tonight’s book is a m/m short story - we’ve decided short stories and novellas work best for the format - Custom Ride by K.A. Mitchell.

Joining us will be two additional readers: Jane’s friend Jawk and Jace, who will also be reading along and commenting to give us an allegedly authentic gay male perspective. I presume they are actually (a) male and (b) gay, since they’ll be with Jane and I’ll be far far away. I mean, she could be making the whole thing up and Jawk and Jace are actually 4’ tall screaming purple teddy bears from the state fair won during a scurrilous battle of carnival ring toss, but for now I’ll believe her. If you can’t trust romance novel review bloggers, then for God’s sake who can you trust?

Read along with us if you like - we’ll be cracking open the book, the bottles of wine (I will anyway), and the read-along hilarity over at Jane’s place around 9pm.