It comes out next week! And then there's one more book left in this first cycle. She's doing three five-book cycles at different points in their lives (middle age and elderly, I think). That's the plan, anyway.
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
Willow ,'Help'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 12:51:24 pm PDT #22289 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
flea - Apr 22, 2014 1:37:05 pm PDT #22290 of 28344
information libertarian
A lot of the great 80s Regency authors are re-published in large print editions, for the grandma market I guess. I can find them at my library. I mean, when I'm a grandma I don't expect I'll have given up my taste for reading explicit sex scenes, but since I also like witty banter I am glad that both are available.
(I am amused at the perennial feeling that older people must be somehow old-fashioned. My mother is a grandmother, and she was at Woodstock, people! She knows all the cuss words and has had lots of sex in various decades.)
Connie Neil - Apr 22, 2014 2:23:25 pm PDT #22291 of 28344
brillig
I loved Valerie Vayle (sp?), piracy and espionage in the Sun King era. They're funny and sexy and the heroine has lovers who she maintains good relationships with even though she ends up with the hero, and said lover sometimes ends up as a friend of the hero. In the first one there's even a harem. The heroine avoids the sheik until she has to get to him to save her friend. The sheik turns out to be a pleasant man, and she remembers him fondly later. I wonder why my copies are? And if there are new copies available? Mine were falling apart.
DavidS - Apr 22, 2014 3:20:35 pm PDT #22292 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - Apr 22, 2014 4:12:05 pm PDT #22293 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, Skye O'Malley. My sister and I tore through those. They were riDICKulous!
We have taglines from those novels, to this day. Not too long ago, we were having sister-dinner-with-drinks at a quiet restaurant once, and I came out with "Conn! Conn! Stuff me till I burst!" and my sister finished the quote(loudly) with "Take me like the stallion takes my mare!"
Into one of those weird quiet moments. And people looked at us. And we both went into hysterics.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 22, 2014 4:32:16 pm PDT #22294 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh, I remember the "take me like your stallion takes his mare!"
Strix - Apr 22, 2014 4:33:50 pm PDT #22295 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
How could you forget it?!
Amy - Apr 22, 2014 5:03:49 pm PDT #22296 of 28344
Because books.
Those were Bertrice Small books, right? I think she was the first person I ever read who used terms like "love grotto" unironically.
I met her, too. She was a Kensington author for years and years, and she was charming. She always showed up with her husband, who was this older-than-her, hunched-over man. He was also sweet.
Connie Neil - Apr 22, 2014 5:07:31 pm PDT #22297 of 28344
brillig
Ahh!!! There are two Vayles I haven't read!!! We hunt!
sumi - Apr 23, 2014 11:41:32 am PDT #22298 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Interesting: LJ Smith is republishing her own Vampire Diaries books through Amazon's fan fiction website.