Hey, Jamie!!!! Good to see you!

Ahhh.....she makes a Cloud Atlas reference. JT, I love you...

Hi JT! I've been a bad Good Girls blogger lately...good to see you again. Tasha, what is it...two weeks to A Poisoned Season?

Ha! Thanks! Oh wait, that's not a good thing, is it?

Hey good lookin!

Hey, David! I'm so glad to see you! How's that adorable baby girl?

Hey, you're the one who trashed David Mitchell in public....

Baby's great. Getting big. Adorable as ever! :)

Hi, Tasha. Nice to meet you!

Hey, Laura! It's great to meet you too!

Rob! How's everything going? Missed you at Love is Murder!

Congratulations, Rob!!!! That's fantastic! And a pretty darn good reason to miss LIM...

Hi Tasha - I think you were on one of the Amelia Peabody lists? Anyway, loved your book. When is the next one out?

Hey, LC! Yes, I was on the Amelia lists. Thanks so much for the kind words about the book--made my day. The sequel comes out April 10...

Wonderful! I am just about out of my Christmas books so it will soon be time to pick up the next lot. BTW - Marion at Sleuth of Baker Street in Toronto called me when your first book came in and she had read it. She did not know I was waiting for it anyway - called to say it was great and she highly recommended it to me and to another Amelia fan here.

What does this button do?

God bless Marion at Sleuth of Baker Street! Tell her I love her, will you, LC?

Regina! You made it! Yay!

Sleuth of Baker Street rocks. Great store.

But who are you trying to kid, Tasha? I mean, with that tumbling hair. Nobody's hair really tumbles like that.

Except maybe Marcus. His hair does tumble like that. I even tugged on it while he was sleeping, just to be sure it was real.

It is.

I used to wish my hair would do something other than tumble. But sleek, straight hair requires a hair drier and a straightening iron and I've found that simply owning these objects is not enough: you actually have to drag them out from under the sink and USE them. And that is way too much work.

So I tumble. And it's real, I promise. You should see it in the morning. Crazy Amazon. Not pretty--because I've just got unruly waves not perfect curls like SOME people.

But Sean, the real question is: Did Marcus enjoy you tugging on his hair while he was asleep????

Tasha don't listen to Sean. Have you seen his hair? Although he did sign my book very nicely at Sleuth.

Hey Tasha, thanks for the invite.

And since when are authors expected to have nice hair?

Dana, I always knew I loved you....

Hi tasha, Thanks for the friend add. Looking forward to getting to know you. Cyndy

Hey, Cyndy! It's nice to meet you! Thanks for stopping by!

I never should've mentioned the hair. My hair is not so much fun today, thanks.

Haircut on Monday, damnit.

Aw, Sean, come on....you've got good hair! : )

You guys both have very pretty hair. Sean's just needs to be longer so it can go in a ponytail.

Alas, I'm proof that an author doesn't have to have good hair. And it sure as hell doesn't tumble.

Thanks for the invite, Tasha. Hello all. Glad the hair discussion is in full swing. I have quite a bit of hair, but you'd never know it cuz I can't figure out how to save a@#$%ing profile photo! Argh.

Nathan!!! Yay! You're definitely going to need a picture. Not that the anonymous grey guy thing you've got going now isn't good, it's just that....well, everybody wants to see your hair!

Mark, tumbling is overrated. Trust me. I've got an Amazon thing going right now. Not a pretty sight.

Joe, I'll look for you at TFest!

LC....hmmm....good idea for Sean.... : )

I am intrigued. You are American, yes? And yet you write historical British literature?

Yes...I was born on the wrong side of the pond...

Since LCC was in Bristol last year does that make the UK on the left side of the Atlantic? Meaning you had to be born on the right side of the pond Tasha. Just face south when you look at a map. I think. Left and right can be tricky.

Hi Tasha,
Just talked with Marion at Sleuth of Baker Street. She has read your second book and loved it. Hopefully I will have my copy by this time next week.

AHHHHH! That warms my heart, LC. You made my day..........

: )

And I like your theory about right and wrong sides of the pond.

Yeah - it's called 'the hairbrain theory' and tends to go with too little sleep. I have been getting a lot of that lately.

Marion is so nice. If you have not met her, try to hook up at a conference sometime - you are fast becoming a favourite author of hers.

Am about mid-way through A Poisoned Season and very much enjoying it. I know you were on the Amelia Peabody lists so am guessing you read Elizabeth Peters -- hopefully you will not object to me feeling that Emily is a bit of a cross between Amelia and Vicky. I like her very much and find her exploits highly entertaining. Love Colin (but then since my husband is also a Colin that is almost a given just from the name) and keep seeing Colin Firth in that role. I would like to throttle her mother though. Anyway -- well done (so far anyway) yet again.

LC, THANKS!!!! You absolutely made my day.

Elizabeth Peters has been a huge influence on me and I'm flattered beyond measure that you'd consider Emily a cross between Amelia and Vicky.

I'll be keeping fingers crossed that you like the rest of the book.....

And I did! Also compared notes with another MPM fan friend and she loved it too.

Have you read Diana Killian's Poetic Justice series? There is more than a touch of Vicky in that heroine too. I am really glad that MPM has had an influence on other authors - I love her books and a new and fresh twist on the style is wonderful. Your book is excellent. Now get off here and write another one real fast (I am a bossy mother so get lots of practice telling people what to do - at which point most of them do exactly as they want anyway).

Well done.

Diana's books are fantastic!

So glad you liked the rest of APS....the third in the series, A Fatal Waltz...is in the hands of a copyeditor even as we speak and I'm starting work on the fourth.

Well done. I hope you can write many more, and maybe even move into other series as well.

Thanks, LC! I truly appreciate your support!

I am just back from Provincial Parks, Great Lakes, BUGS and kids whining in a tent for days and days. I need good news --- when is your next book due out?

Ahhhh, bugs! How fun! But not nearly as much as whining kids. Such a joy, sometimes, aren't they? : )

My Elizabeth I book comes out Sept. 25 (based on the new Cate Blanchett movie), but the next Emily will be out summer '08........

I'm pushing the Elizabeth book on all the movie forums I attend. :-)

Bless you, Dusty. Bless you.

Hey, you know I got your back, T.

I don't know what I'd do without you.....

Thanks Tasha! I have a book list for September that is shaping up pretty nicely. Will add Elizabeth to it.

House is blessedly bug free and kids have enough room to whine out of my hearing. Only catch? 21 year old is having a crisis - girlfriend I think but he is really not saying. Ain't life grand?

Might as well be friends here to!
Lj