Wow. Johnnie Cochran died. (I found this out by clicking Tommyrot's M & Ms link, btw.)
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Mar 29, 2005 1:09:18 pm PST #1309 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
msbelle - Mar 29, 2005 1:12:19 pm PST #1310 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
and Falwell is in critial condition. wow.
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 1:13:23 pm PST #1311 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Really? It seems to me that they are only being allowed to set the standards for people who want to write Christian romance novels that can be sold in CBA bookstores.
Right. Which is the primary location in which Christian romance novels are sold.
Is this publishing house dominating the romance publishing world?
Yup. Those guidelines I published are from Harlequin's Christian line. I've seen the guidelines for the other Christian lines, and they're similar.
Daisy Jane - Mar 29, 2005 1:22:17 pm PST #1312 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Aaaand of course now that I'm all caught up, I'm bored.
I have nothing to add to the Christian Romance discussion.
Stephanie - Mar 29, 2005 1:25:47 pm PST #1313 of 10001
Trust my rage
Thanks to all for the tick/Lyme information. I found a tick attached to me (almost in my bellybutton) yesterday, but since I spend so much time rubbing my belly, I'm positive it wasn't there for more than an hour or so.
I'll still ask about it when I see the midwife (I know it's not her area but I figure she can give me advice), but based on what I just read, I should be fine.
Wow. Johnnie Cochran died. (I found this out by clicking Tommyrot's M & Ms link, btw.)
Me too. Seems weird.
Also, I am so relieved to see some other people expressing the "Would she just die already" sentiment (although way more tectfully than I just did) regarding the Schiavo debacle. I was starting to wonder if I was the only cold-hearted Bitch around here.
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 1:27:13 pm PST #1314 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I have been trying to get people to set up a pool on who goes first: Schiavo, the Pope, or Prince Rainier.
Yes, I am a bitch.
Nutty - Mar 29, 2005 1:29:31 pm PST #1315 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
"We're targeting an evangelical Christian market, and therefore your book must not contain anything that would offend any Evangelical Christian."
I suppose "evangelical Christian" was too long a phrase to use in all their marketing stuff. Still, it fosters the illusion that the only kind of Christian is an evangelical one.
Not that I'm into chick lit or hey-you-be-a-Christian lit (as opposed to literature by Christians or about Christianity, which I do consume on occasion), so my complaint is more of a general sociolinguistic gripe.
Aims - Mar 29, 2005 1:29:44 pm PST #1316 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
$10 on Schaivo.
Pix - Mar 29, 2005 1:29:45 pm PST #1317 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Steph yes, it has to be attached at least 24 hours. You should be good.
msbelle - Mar 29, 2005 1:30:39 pm PST #1318 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well maybe I am missing something, but my guess is if you're a writer and you're jonesing to break into the Christian romance market, specifically wanting to identify your work as Christian and seeking to have it sold in Christian bookstores, then that is not a surprise.
As a Christian, I don't go to Christian bookstores when wanting to by books on faith. I go to mainstream bookstores, because I know they carry religious books, and I am guessing that the general tone of the books will be more mainstream and less fundamentalist. I just assume that the exclusively Christian bookstores are more rigid in what the consider Christian.
Would a character identified as Christian be against guidelines in the larger romance realm?