thanks very much for your help. THANKS

Rfp – omg the indexed site is so cute thanks, im cheery now. any more good stuff?

Here’s how to format all purty-like:

Bold– <b>text</b>
Italics– <i>text</i>

it’s winter. It’s depressing. And we want funnies!!
I’m not funny like Jenny, but if you’re visual, here’s some nerdy-wry humor.

HTML commands always begin and end with . To begin, you put the letter of the command (b for bold, i for italics) in the brackets. so: (but without the spaces).

To end (that is, when you want to resume regular text), (again, without the spaces).

If I don’t put the spaces in, it’ll just DO it, it won’t show the command.

I hope that helps!

I’m not sure how you guys divide things up, but aside from liking the blog generally (I totally got the Time Magazine issue), there are particular entries I like.

In an entry dated Sept. 20, 2007, I really loved this quote, “I wasn’t impressed by the one Lucy Monroe novel I tried, but I am impressed that she’s apparently managed to write about something horrendously intimate in a matter-of-fact way, and get it published widely. (See Monroe’s website for an interesting contrast between the banal fairytale described by the book’s cover copy and the public health statement farther down the page.) She has also written about endometriosis and about impotence in a wheelchair-bound man.”

Honest. Poignant. Witty. Good stuff.

Also, I can appreciate the fact that while you didn’t like the book, you found some positives. Considering I’m reading “Me Times Three” right now and am not impressed (no matter if Sarah Jessica Parker endorsed it), I am struggling to get through it but am looking for interesting tid-bits along the way.

Lastly, how do you guys make things italicized? And why is there no new entry in such a long time? Ms. Crusie: it’s winter. It’s depressing. And we want funnies!!

The closet space problem is one Jenny will have to deal with. Although I have the impression she’s solved it by turning her socks into strange puppet creatures and letting the dogs chew some of the shoes.

Fictional underwear and shoes, however, just mean that I need more shelf-space for books.

Laura, I know you’re not into shoes, but underwear is like a gateway drug. First, symbolic underpants. Next, socks that say Left and Right. Then shoes that scream Toes In Bondage. And then… you need more closet space.

“read for pleasure is a marvelous blog! thanks”

That’s got to be about something of mine, right? Don’t disillusion me. Thank you

Hmmm. Now I have to go back and re-read all of her books, looking for underwear. LOL.

Not that I’m a pessimist or anything.

I’ve read a couple of Crusie books, namely Don’t Look Down and Agnes and the Hitman. Not bad. But a little bloody.

And I still don’t understand why Lucy was angry with Wilder. But I’m just a guy.

True. But then they bitch when that author goes from pb/trade size to HC.
Just saying.

And I think this is the book you are referring to:
http://www.kingstone.com.tw/english/images/Product/006/0060536357.jpg

Certainly not MY idea of a fantasy cover!

And I love the Prius. Great car.

I may have to buy a new car. In fact, I probably will (I’m really bummed about this – I loved my old car, it was very good to me). So, Jenny (I’m not trying to hijack, and go ahead and boot this, if you like) – do you love your Prius, does it have drawbacks (especially snow-related?

I’ve been driving an Accord for 13 years, and the Prius is definitely smaller, but how often do I need all that space (except to keep me from being killed when people and deer run into me)? Mostly I just drive (in traffic) 10+ miles to work every day, so the hybrid would really help with the mileage there.

And romance readers do TOO buy in hard cover! When it’s things we can’t wait for, and know we will read over and over… Not that I’m arguing with your stats, I just know about myself and a bunch of other crazy CBs.

Sometimes in small stores with crappy staff it’s about key words in the title. When I was in my early 20s I worked at a small, independant store that was bought (upon the retirement of the owner) by a large chain who intended to close our store (even though we netted a 2+ million profit every year). They opened one of their stores at the other end of the mall and staffed it with people who only knew a book from a hole in the ground because the books were on shelves. Two of them were friends with my co-worker and very nice people. Just not book people. At that time there was a book out with a title something like “Dragons at the Gate: the rise and fall of Some Company or Other” The cover had a photo of the company logo.

They shelved it in fantasy.

Seeing as how this chain was paying my rent and I’m anal about these sorts of things I moved all the copies to business.

Two days later it was back in fantasy.

Then again, this is the same store that had one staff member who, when approached by a customer looking for books on Mount Everest said “Mount Everest? Is that in the Rockies?”

She left, came to my store and we sold her three books.

I think the genre thing depends on who’s doing the labeling. Publishers label books to get them to the audience who will buy them and bookstores shelve the books by those labels because otherwise, they’ll never find them during inventory. (I used to work in a bookstore. Every time somebody picked up a book, wandered off with it, and put it down someplace else, our inventory went to hell again.) So Harlequins are always shelved in romance because they’re definitely romances. But my STs are shelved in General Fiction because they come out in hardcover, and romance readers in general don’t buy hardcovers because they wait for the paperback, and hardcover buyers generally don’t buy romance, so . . .
In bookstores, it’s about marketing, not content.

Some of us are, primarily, library readers perhaps (I do keep TRYING), but I suspect that enough of us are SERIOUS FANS WITH NO SELF-CONTROL that, given notice of publication – we’ll buy the book.