Passion Ann, the Sweetheart of the Internet
A long, long time ago, I put up my first website using a program called Home Page (I think, it was a long time ago) and it was pretty cool for its time (now people would spit on it) and one of my friends who shall be nameless–let’s call her Pat–wanted one, too. Because in publishing, you’re nothing without a website, even back then. So I told her to send me some content and I would put up all her books on a website just for her. And she did, in the form of a conversation with a rabid fan.
[Full disclosure: This author and I had, at the time, devised pseudonyms that we would use when our careers tanked. She picked Edith Peach Pitt and I chose Passion Ann Heet. You can tell already she's the lady in the friendship. Then she added Cinnamon Luust for her American sales. I tell you this so you know where the names came from.]
Anyway, that was many websites ago, and Pat just got her already lovely current website updated by my genius daughter, and the new website is incredibly beautiful, but in will never replace in my heart The Passion Ann Heet Fansite for Patricia Gaffney. So in honor of Pat’s new gorgeous elegant professional website, I give you Passion Ann’s monument to fanhood, the only time Patricia Gaffney and I ever collaborated on a piece of fiction.
Although I’m pretty damn sure the purple was her idea.
Both websites are fab, and I love the excerpt from Mad Dash.
I think Passion Ann and Cinnamon deserve their own book.
Thanks for posting this. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen and I STILL laugh. Very cute.
Passion Ann Heet?…lol.
LMAO! I know fans like that. (frowns slightly) Maybe I am a fan like that. (shakes head) What am I thinking? My husband’s not named Beau. (whistles as she suanters off stage right)
my husband jon said he has never worn a cucumber in his eye, maybe he will try …
pat
ROTFLMAO.
you are so f-ing funny. really, please collaborate again. *snort*
Good stuff, your interview was hysterical. Great new site, very subtle, very classy. Liked the “talk amongst yourselves aspect. Also love the excerpt of Mad Dash and although I don’t normally like first person stories, I’m intrigued by this one and will buy it. I love PG’s voice and adored The Goodbye Summer.
That daughter of yours has an awesome talent. Well, I’m sure she has more than one, but these blogs are so wonderfully well done. Yours, now PG’s, each so very distinct for each person. Atta girl to Mollie!
I went to the “purple” website from the CB’s new home and boy was I confused. Entertained, but confused. I am glad I came over here to get the real? story.
Passion Ann Heet- just too funny!
I haven’t laughed like that in a while! Absolutely classic.
Thankyou!
LOVE the Passion Ann Heet’s fansite, too TOO funny!
Ohhhh my gosh, the purple and the passion flowers soooo take me back. Just goes to show that ten years in the cyberworld (if I may still call it that) is a long, long time.
Thanks to all of you for sharing this.
OMFG that was a hoot! Thank you for sharing it with us - I think I’ve actually seen that out there in my webby peramblulations. It still burns, as does the coffee I snorted up my nose reading it over just now. Mornin’ sunshine!
Actually, the original was a sunny yellow with flowers, for irony. Then Mollie redid that and made it purple, still ironic. Irony all over the place.
I just found this, Crusie! How nice that Passion Ann’s getting a second life. If anyone deserves it she does. Cinnamon, too. Ah, I miss the old days, don’t you? The youth, the innocence. The irony. You were and still are the funniest woman I know.
No, no, that’s YOU, Pat, YOU are the funniest.
The old days were good, but we’re even better now. Although Passion Ann and Cinn may be our finest internet moment.