Comments on: On the Road: Boston http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/ More than you ever wanted to hear from Bestselling Author Jenny Crusie. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Trish Morey http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-3082 Trish Morey Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:21:22 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-3082 Sheena, check out the RWAust conference pages for details - http://www.romanceaustralia.com/conference/2007/index.htm Jenny, hope you soon knock that cold on the head. Look forward to meeting you in August! Waves to Catherine and all you other Brisbanites! Sheena, check out the RWAust conference pages for details –

http://www.romanceaustralia.com/conference/2007/index.htm

Jenny, hope you soon knock that cold on the head. Look forward to meeting you in August!

Waves to Catherine and all you other Brisbanites!

]]> By: downundergal http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-3074 downundergal Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:57:11 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-3074 Whaddyaknow. Where do I live again? Oh, Brisbane.... thats right. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha. Whaddyaknow. Where do I live again? Oh, Brisbane…. thats right.
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2945 Jenny Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:04:04 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2945 Hello, Catherine and Sheena! I have no idea when I'm going to be where. Romance Writers of Australia has me for August 10-12 and New Zealand Romance Writers has me for the next weekend and sometime in between I'm seeing Queensland University. That's about all I know. I'm putty in their hands. Hello, Catherine and Sheena!
I have no idea when I’m going to be where. Romance Writers of Australia has me for August 10-12 and New Zealand Romance Writers has me for the next weekend and sometime in between I’m seeing Queensland University. That’s about all I know.

I’m putty in their hands.

]]> By: Sheena http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2942 Sheena Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:33:21 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2942 As a Brisbane resident and huge fan of yours, I can't wait until you come here! Do you have your Australian schedule posted anywhere so I can book myself into sessions? As a Brisbane resident and huge fan of yours, I can’t wait until you come here! Do you have your Australian schedule posted anywhere so I can book myself into sessions?

]]> By: CrankyOtter http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2899 CrankyOtter Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:30:58 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2899 Wow, the only way my weekend could have been betters is if I transported my book club party to that conference. It sounds wonderful!!! I have always been a romance fan (well, since I was 15 or so) and became an überfan when I ran across both Suz Brockmann and Jenny Crusie who would never write about friendless orphans. Their characters all have friends and families and complications. I love it. And I would love even more to hear the fabulous Jenny Cruise speak about creating community in romantic fiction. Do let us mere fans know if we can ever do this, please !!! Wow, the only way my weekend could have been betters is if I transported my book club party to that conference. It sounds wonderful!!!

I have always been a romance fan (well, since I was 15 or so) and became an überfan when I ran across both Suz Brockmann and Jenny Crusie who would never write about friendless orphans. Their characters all have friends and families and complications. I love it. And I would love even more to hear the fabulous Jenny Cruise speak about creating community in romantic fiction. Do let us mere fans know if we can ever do this, please !!!

]]> By: Catherine Cockburn http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2889 Catherine Cockburn Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:40:53 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2889 Hey Jenny! As one of Glen's, Masters in Romance Writing students at Queensland University of Technology, I'm "bracing myself" for your visit to us. This is the equivalent of getting Jane Austin, Ernest Hemmingway, Graham Greene or Agatha Christie to visit us - yeah, I know they're all dead - but I'm sure you get my point! Looking forward to meeting you. Hey Jenny! As one of Glen’s, Masters in Romance Writing students at Queensland University of Technology, I’m “bracing myself” for your visit to us.
This is the equivalent of getting Jane Austin, Ernest Hemmingway, Graham Greene or Agatha Christie to visit us – yeah, I know they’re all dead – but I’m sure you get my point!
Looking forward to meeting you.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2877 Jenny Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:54:14 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2877 Eric and Sarah are doing a book of romance criticism and asked for those who'd presented papers to submit them, so there's a good chance you'll see a lot of them when they get that together. Thank you. Theresa, I've still got this stinking cold. Bob and I are swapping e-mails that say, "No, I'M sicker." As in more ill, not more perverted. When it comes to perverse, you can't beat "Let The Alligator Eat Them" Mayer. Eric and Sarah are doing a book of romance criticism and asked for those who’d presented papers to submit them, so there’s a good chance you’ll see a lot of them when they get that together.

Thank you. Theresa, I’ve still got this stinking cold. Bob and I are swapping e-mails that say, “No, I’M sicker.” As in more ill, not more perverted. When it comes to perverse, you can’t beat “Let The Alligator Eat Them” Mayer.

]]> By: Theresa http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2875 Theresa Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:57:18 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2875 Ditto what McB said. Hope you're feeling better, Jenny! Ditto what McB said.

Hope you’re feeling better, Jenny!

]]> By: McB http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2860 McB Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:54:40 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2860 Wow I would love to read some of those papers. I don't suppose they are available? Wow I would love to read some of those papers. I don’t suppose they are available?

]]> By: orangehands http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2859 orangehands Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:01:23 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2859 ok, all of this sounds fascinating. must go to that blog now... ok, all of this sounds fascinating. must go to that blog now…

]]> By: roben http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2856 roben Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:57:06 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2856 Wow. Sounds like a great conference. Hope you're feeling better today. Just read Glen Thomas' article, "Who are you? What are you doing here?" confessions of an academic, in the Hearts Talk (the Aussie equivalent or the RWR.) I liked what he had to say. Glad you're going up to Qld. it will be great for you to see more of Aust. than Sydney. (Although Sydney is lovely and my personal favorite.) Wow. Sounds like a great conference. Hope you’re feeling better today. Just read Glen Thomas’ article, “Who are you? What are you doing here?” confessions of an academic, in the Hearts Talk (the Aussie equivalent or the RWR.) I liked what he had to say. Glad you’re going up to Qld. it will be great for you to see more of Aust. than Sydney. (Although Sydney is lovely and my personal favorite.)

]]> By: Sandra Schwab http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2855 Sandra Schwab Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:24:02 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2855 Jenny, it's really not fair that all the cool conferences take place in the US! What about us poor Europeans? <i>Back when I was doing academic romance criticism (a million years ago), everybody thought Radway was the voice of God on romance fiction.</i> Heavens. Radway's book is one of the worst academic studies I've ever read: not only doesn't she know anything about romance, but she also doesn't know anything at all about academic fieldwork. Heck, the 19th-century pioneers of questionnaire studies knew more about how to conduct a questionnaire study than Radway. Jenny, it’s really not fair that all the cool conferences take place in the US! What about us poor Europeans?

Back when I was doing academic romance criticism (a million years ago), everybody thought Radway was the voice of God on romance fiction.

Heavens. Radway’s book is one of the worst academic studies I’ve ever read: not only doesn’t she know anything about romance, but she also doesn’t know anything at all about academic fieldwork. Heck, the 19th-century pioneers of questionnaire studies knew more about how to conduct a questionnaire study than Radway.

]]> By: Diane L. http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2850 Diane L. Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:49:59 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2850 Oops. Somehow I hit submit before I finished typing. Anyway, I've been using terms like "interesting" to describe Radway (while thinking "interestingly awful" or "it's interesting that so many people think this is so great") and I admire that you just come out and say "abysmal." Oops. Somehow I hit submit before I finished typing.

Anyway, I’ve been using terms like “interesting” to describe Radway (while thinking “interestingly awful” or “it’s interesting that so many people think this is so great”) and I admire that you just come out and say “abysmal.”

]]> By: Diane http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2849 Diane Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:42:29 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2849 I'm so glad to read what you said about Radway's book. I just had to read it for a graduate course in library school and I thought that there was something wrong with me and that I just didn't get it. I’m so glad to read what you said about Radway’s book. I just had to read it for a graduate course in library school and I thought that there was something wrong with me and that I just didn’t get it.

]]> By: Sarah Frantz http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2845 Sarah Frantz Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:49:23 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2845 Thanks so much, Jenny! I've enjoyed this conference almost more than any other as well (nothing quite beats getting dressed up in fake Regency clothes and English-country-dancing the night away at Jane Austen conferences, though!). It was so fabulous to have you and Mary and Suz in a room together--we need to harness that brain power! And we're all completley excited about the "new" romance scholarship as well. Eric, in his inimitable way, has decreed that we will have the First Annual International Conference on Popular Romance in Australia in August 2009. So let it be written on bar napkins. So let it be done. Thanks so much, Jenny! I’ve enjoyed this conference almost more than any other as well (nothing quite beats getting dressed up in fake Regency clothes and English-country-dancing the night away at Jane Austen conferences, though!). It was so fabulous to have you and Mary and Suz in a room together–we need to harness that brain power! And we’re all completley excited about the “new” romance scholarship as well.

Eric, in his inimitable way, has decreed that we will have the First Annual International Conference on Popular Romance in Australia in August 2009. So let it be written on bar napkins. So let it be done.

]]> By: Strop http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2843 Strop Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:42:12 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2843 The Mysterious Laura is cool, and one day I will drag her on a plane or train with me to a Cherry Con. Funniest blog in ages Jenny. Please let us know Bob's reaction to that masculine emotion paper. The Mysterious Laura is cool, and one day I will drag her on a plane or train with me to a Cherry Con.

Funniest blog in ages Jenny. Please let us know Bob’s reaction to that masculine emotion paper.

]]> By: Laura Vivanco http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2838 Laura Vivanco Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:49:36 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2838 <i>When, by the way, does the book of Crusie criticism come out, Jenny? Have you heard?</i> The deadline for us (i.e. Eric and me) to get the essays from contributors was only last week, so it'll be a while before the volume's ready for publication. Things are definitely beginning to come together though. I'm not really mysterious. I just hate travelling. [Hmm. Maybe I should pretend that I'm like Greta Garbo, glamorous and with a need to be alone? I've met a couple of the UK Cherries, though, and I'm sure they'd soon let everyone know exactly how unmysterious I really am.] When, by the way, does the book of Crusie criticism come out, Jenny? Have you heard?

The deadline for us (i.e. Eric and me) to get the essays from contributors was only last week, so it’ll be a while before the volume’s ready for publication. Things are definitely beginning to come together though.

I’m not really mysterious. I just hate travelling. [Hmm. Maybe I should pretend that I'm like Greta Garbo, glamorous and with a need to be alone? I've met a couple of the UK Cherries, though, and I'm sure they'd soon let everyone know exactly how unmysterious I really am.]

]]> By: AMC http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2835 AMC Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:38:09 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/04/07/on-the-road-boston/#comment-2835 Bummer on the cold. Yay on the writing time! I love Teach Me Tonight. It's a great blog. Very insightful and thought-provoking. What a cool conference! I wish I'd been there. When, by the way, does the book of Crusie criticism come out, Jenny? Have you heard? Hope you're better soon! Bummer on the cold. Yay on the writing time!

I love Teach Me Tonight. It’s a great blog. Very insightful and thought-provoking.

What a cool conference! I wish I’d been there. When, by the way, does the book of Crusie criticism come out, Jenny? Have you heard?

Hope you’re better soon!

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