I’ll say this right up front: Billy Bob Walker Got Married is out of print. A reader recommended it to me, and she was so convincing that I bought a used copy from Amazon. Go forth and do likewise! I’m not kidding—this is a wonderful romance, a keeper, one that made me happy for two days.
It’s set in the South, and it’s the archetypal bad boy meets good girl story: but the long, luscious, fabulous length kind that we don’t find all that much anymore. Shiloh Pennington is the daughter of the richest man in her small southern town. Billy […]
November 2, 2009 – 3:52 pm
I have a huge fondness for stories of (for lack of a better word) wacky heroines. I don’t mean chick lit women, the ones who can’t balance their checkbook and lose their undies in the train station. I mean the ones who are obstinately marching along to their own drummer, wearing funny hats, playing in a ukulele band, eschewing fish net stockings. Susan Elizabeth Phillips has written some great ones, and so has another of my favorite authors, Christie Ridgeway.
Well, this last weekend I discovered Julia Harper’s contemporaries (she writes historicals as Elizabeth Hoyt) – and another […]
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I’m always being asked which novel is my favorite. For goodness’ sake, people, that’s like asking me which of my two children is my favorite! The only possible answer is: the book that isn’t whining at me at the moment – i.e., any novel that’s out of my computer, out of copyedits, out of proofs, and safely on the shelves. I have huge fondness for all my printed heroes and heroines. I miss them, especially the heroines. By the time a book is finished, each of my heroines has become my girlfriend. She talks to me in the middle of […]
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I still remember discovering Susan Elizabeth Phillips – which happened to me, oddly enough, through an English bookstore in Florence, Italy. This was years ago. It was early evening and hot as the blazes (that was before my husband and I succumbed to installing air conditioning in his mother’s Italian apartment). So I was lying on a hot couch, drinking a gin-and-tonic, and reading SEP. And laughing. I laughed so hard that I fell off the couch and my husband accused me of drinking too much, thereby instigating a marital quarrel…
He was so wrong! I was drunk on […]
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I have to admit it. I love wallflowers. I think it’s the memory of a painful prom night sitting at the edge of the gym while couples circled the room to Stairway to Heaven, the girls with their arms limply around their partners’ necks. Since my date is now Out, I don’t count this as much of a personal failure (that’s my story and I’m keeping to it!).
But still…those charming memories mean that I have a huge fondness for a girl who isn’t circling the room in the arms of the football hero. And if she’s snappy and […]
