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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Taken And Seduced by Julia Latham
Hi to Terra and everyone at Yankee Romance Reviewers! Thanks so much for inviting me to spend the day with you. I'm Julia Latham (and I'm also Gayle Callen, but that's another blog!) and I write medieval romances for Avon Books. My newest release is TAKEN AND SEDUCED. Sexy title, huh? I cannot tell you how difficult the title process can be, what with brainstorming with my husband, my critique group, my agent, my editor…between us all, we finally manage a title. And this one really reflects the plot, which can be tough to do in a couple words. But I strive for that.
TAKEN AND SEDUCED is the first in a new trilogy, "Raised to be Bladesmen." If you haven't read my books before, I've created a mysterious group of knights called the League of the Blade, who fight for justice. Either the hero—and/or heroine!—is a member or about to be member. Lots of swashbuckling and intrigue, and of course, most importantly, Romance with a capital R. The League serves as a backdrop as two people come together and overcome their pasts and danger and all their misconceptions about the other. And isn't that what makes a good romance?
The trilogy is about three brothers whose parents were murdered when they were children. To keep them safe, the League took them in to raise them. They decided on an experiment—to train Bladesmen from childhood, to create a superior group of warriors. The experiment has unintended consequences that are confronted in each book. Adam Hilliard, earl of Keswick, the hero of TAKEN AND SEDUCED, is the eldest brother, and he feels it is his responsibility to bring his parents' murderer to justice. But the only way he can get to his enemy is by kidnapping the man's daughter, Florrie. Adam tries very hard to intimidate her into behaving as they travel the length of England to confront her father, but she sees right through him. Florrie is destined for the convent, and she is thrilled to have her very own adventure.
Every so often, I write an on-the-road book. I've done them in the Victorian era (in which I write as Gayle Callen) where there are fine carriages and decent inns. Travel was totally different in 15th century England, especially when one wants to remain hidden. Ah, but that's the challenge, isn't it? Two people alone in the close quarters of a room at an inn, sharing a bedroll by a fire at night (okay, one person is tied to the other so they can't escape…), forced to bathe in streams…there are so many fun and romantic situations when characters are on the run!
Hope you get a chance to read TAKEN AND SEDUCED. The "taken" part is pretty obvious, but who is seducing whom?
I love questions. Ask me about writing, or writing under two names, or—anything!
Julia will giveaway a free book to one lucky commentor. Ask her a question and don't forget to leave your email addy!
45 comments:
- nightdweller20 said...
Hi Julia,
Why'd you decide to write under two names? (I know why I would, but I'm not you, so I have to ask :P)
jaam121388 at yahoo dot com - April 9, 2009 at 12:19 AM
- orelukjp0 said...
Hi Julia,
Your new trilogy sounds great. Adam sounds so sexy but you lead me to believe that Florrie is seducing him. If I were in her place I know I would definitely be doing the seducing.
Your genre for the books you write under Julia and Gayle are similar. Is there a reason you took a non de plume? Which is the non de plume or are they both fictional names?
Thanks for putting my name in the hat.
orelukjp0 at gmail dot com - April 9, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- RachieG said...
:) I've read you under both names but honestly did not know you were the same person. How awesome is that?? :)
I was just wondering how you decided on what to write..how did you decide those two specific time periods?
Do you think in the future you will change and perhaps write something from a different time period or genre (paranormal? conteporary?)...and if so, will you have a new name?
Have a good weekend!! - April 9, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- okibi-insanity said...
Hi Julia!
Ohh, finding the right title. It is hard battle, isnt it? Finding the title that could get the attention of the reader and at the same time reflect the contents of the book. Aww, the life of an author.
What inspired you to come up with the idea of a group of knights called League of the Blade?
okibi_insanity[at]yahoo[dot]com - April 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM
- Mona said...
Hi Julia,
Were you inspired by real life characters for the hero and heroine of Taken and Seduced?
email@example.com - April 9, 2009 at 2:08 AM
- Jane said...
Hi Julia,
Congrats on the new release. I haven't read any of your medievals, but I love your Victorian books written under Gayle Callen. What's your release schedule like? Are you alternating between the medievals and Victorians?
janie1215 AT excite.com - April 9, 2009 at 2:24 AM
- Blodeuedd said...
Hi Julia :D
You know what I always wonder about when it comes to authors, is the cover. Do you have much say in it, or is it the publishers? And can you give suggestions?
blodeuedd1 (at) gmail (dot) com - April 9, 2009 at 2:41 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Nightdweller, I decided to write under two names for a couple reasons. My publishing house could publish me faster as two different people (I write fast), and so that readers wouldn't be confused. Gayle writes Victorian, Julia writes Medievals.
orelukjp0, Gayle Callen is my real name. And let me tell you, it was tough work coming up with Julia, a shorter name, slightly British, with the .com available, and that all my editors liked.
RachieG, more than one person has told me they didn't know I was two people! ;) As for choosing those time periods, my first six books as Gayle were medievals. I chose the 1480s because 4 different kings reigned in a couple years, so there was lots of intrigue. After six books, my editor mentioned that if I wanted to grow my readership, I should try 19th century. I picked Victorian, because so many people were writing Regencies. And trains are fun!;) And I have no urge yet to write a different genre. I'm still so happy writing historicals! But I think contemps and/or paranormals are fun. And another name?? That would be SUCH a split personality! ;)
Sue, I came up with the League of the Blade because I wanted to do a sort of military brotherhood of knights. Very macho. Of course I've had female Bladesmen now, too...But also, I wanted my medievals to be more action adventure, and this lent itself to that perfectly.
Mona, nope, I wasn't inspired by real life characters. For some reason, that usually doesn't happen to me.
Jane, yes, I'm alternating as Julia and Gayle. Julia's out in April, Gayle is out in September, Julia is out in January '10, Julia is April '10...it can get confusing!
blodeuedd1, I don't have a lot to say in the covers, although they do ask for suggestions--and hair/eye color, of course! The art department at Avon is incredible, and I always trust them. When I wrote The Lord Next Door, my mom suggested doors on the cover, and Avon went with that for the whole series!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- magolla said...
Wow, glad I stopped by--I just 'discovered' a new author to read!
- April 9, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- Julia Latham said...
magolla, wow, I love to hear that!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- Margay said...
This sounds like a great trilogy! I love series of books that center on or link to favorite characters. In that vein, how do you keep track of the storylines from book to book? Do you have a master storyboard, careful notes?
Margay1122 (at) aol (dot) com - April 9, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- Bridget said...
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I posted this on Win A Book.
- April 9, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- Lori Brighton said...
Wow! I'm intrigued! Your books sound great. How hard was it for you to get your first book published? Do you remember that "call?"
- April 9, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Margay, I keep track of the storylines in each book of the trilogy in a couple ways. First, I write a very detailed 25-page synopsis before I even begin a book--I refer to that often throughout the series. Also, each time I finish a chapter, I summarize it on one page, scene by scene, noting the timeline, POV, setting, etc., and what was accomplished in each scene, what clues were revealed, etc. And then I keep a shorter summary as well, where I summarize the whole chapter in just a couple lines. That helps me find something quickly. Also, if something happens in Book 1 that needs to be mentioned in Book 2, I'll jot it down on an index card, and put it with the Book 2 notes. Hope I explained that well!
Lori, you bet I remember "the call"! It took me 13 years to be published, and three complete manuscripts, so that day is seared in my memory. I had lots of rejections as I struggled to learn how to write a book, and having a great critique group and RWA chapter really helped. I had an agent for 2 1/2 years as well, so she was the one who called me first. And on that day, I couldn't even relax and enjoy my success, because I was hosting 26 swimmers on my son's high school team for dinner, so I was making 4 pans of ziti! What a crazy--and wonderful--day!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- Margay said...
Very well, thank you. I wish I could be that organized!
Margay - April 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- AleeDrake said...
Hi Julia,
I Love ALL your books (and Gayle's too.) How do you go about developing your hero and heroine? Are they based on people you know, actors, stock photographs, or entirely imagination? - April 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- tetewa said...
I'm always looking for new authors to read and series, sounds good!
- April 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Alee, thanks so much for letting me know you enjoy my books! As for the hero and heroine, I never base them on real people, because they become so real to me all by themselves! I don't use photos either, because I can see them in my head. When I approach a new book, I first think of how the main characters will react to the premise of the whole trilogy. TAKEN AND SEDUCED is the first book about three brothers who were raised to be warriors, without ever seeing women until they were older. They lived solitary, hard lives. So I came up with how the three heroes should react different: Adam is very noble, and honored to be a Bladesman. His brother Robert (hero of WICKED, SINFUL NIGHTS, coming next January)is more of a rake, who thought he wasn't much bothered by their restrictive childhood (of course he has a lot to learn...). The final brother, Paul, was very angry as he gradually realized how restricted his childhood was. From there, I find heroines who are sort of the opposite of the heroes. And then I plop them into a plot that challenges each of them. Hope that makes sense!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Raven99 said...
Hi Julia,
I am so excited about your new trilogy. Taken and Seduced sounds great.
What is your favorite thing about being a writer? Also, do you have to do much research when writing your books?
beamer339 @ hotmail.com - April 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Karen H in NC said...
Hi Julia,
I've read several of your 'Gayle' books but never the 'Julia' books. I guess mainly because the time period is not one that I like (goes back to history lessons in school). But reading your blog today may just be changing my mind. After all, I enjoy watching The Tudors DVDs and medivel is not too far back from that period so I might like it after all.
Do you choose real-life people to act as your inspiration when characterizing and personalizing your heroes & heroines? - April 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Raven, glad I'm making the book sound interesting! ;) I do a lot of research when I write my books--that's my favorite part of it! I have about 175 research books (for three time periods, medieval, Elizabethan, Victorian) and I consult them constantly. I even have a three ring binder divided alphabetically by topic, so that when I need to know something about clothes, I've listed a title and page number for where I can find it in one of my books.
As for my favorite thing about being a writer, we like to say it's good "having written," because that means you're done with the book. Ha! The actual writing is usually hard work. But there are precious days when the scene seems to flow, and the characters come alive, and I'm seeing it like a movie in my head. Those are wonderful moments!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- penney said...
Hi Julie
The questions I was going to ask have been answered already. this was a great blog today thanks for being here! Your new trilogy sounds great I'll be getting your book can't wait.
Penney penneyw at sbcglobal dot net - April 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Karen, my medievals are set right when the Tudor era begins. Trust me, in terms of research and how people lived, the only thing that changed in that small span of time was politics. King Henry VII, father of Henry VIII, makes an occasional appearance in my books. Hope you'll give my books a try.
And nope, no real people as inspiration for my characters. You can read about that in more detail a few posts higher.
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Thanks, Penney!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- CrystalGB said...
Hi Julia. I think it is great that you write under two names. I love your Gayle Callen books. Your new trilogy sounds good.
- April 9, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Liyana said...
Hey Julia! (:
What was the book that most influenced your life — and why? And...What are your favorite books to give (and get) as gifts?
firstname.lastname@example.com - April 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Thanks so much, Crystal!
Liyana, the book that most influenced my life? I'd have to say Kathleen Woodiwiss's SHANNA. I had never read historical romance before that, and a friend brought it to a slumber party in high school. While everyone slept, I read all night. I was hooked. That book influenced my entire career, because I'd always written, but science fiction before that. After SHANNA, I put all my energies into historical romance--when I wasn't raising my kids, working, etc.!
As for favorite books to give--if not a romance by Loretta Chase, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julia Quinn and so many other Avon ladies, then Harry Potter! Or the Chronicles of Narnia. I've read the Narnia books dozens of times since I was child, and I read them to my children.
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Cheri2628 said...
I am intrigued by your new trilogy. I like the idea of a noble brotherhood of knights and 3 children being raised by them. I see that you have mentioned the titles and release dates of the first 2 books. What about the last one?
castings[at]mindspring[dot]com - April 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- scottsgal said...
Sounds like a great new trilogy. What people or other authors influenced you to write??
msboatgal at aol.com - April 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Liyana said...
Thanks for answering, Julia!
- April 9, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Ambersc said...
Hi Julia,
I love your books! I have the entire collection under both names.
I share your books with my little sister who also loves your work.
We would like to know what inspired you to start writing, and are you going to be writing any other types of books?
Thanks so much for blogging with us.
Amber and Nikki - April 9, 2009 at 2:39 PM
- Maureen said...
Hi Julia,
Did you need to do a lot of research for the story?
mce1011[at]aol[dot]com - April 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Julia Latham said...
Cheri, the third book of the trilogy doesn't have a title or a pub date yet. It will be some time next year though. I'm writing a Victorian right now, and then I'll do Paul's story.
Scottsgal, I've mentioned Kathleen Woodiwiss as starting my love of historical romance, but as for people encouraging me to write, I have to say that would mostly be my husband. I spent 13 years working part-time, dealing with our kids, and still spending a couple hours most days writing. And never once did he complain. He encouraged me when I was feeling down about ever having a career. 13 years is a long time!
Hi Amber and Nikki! Wow, the whole collection of my books! That's close to 20 now. Thanks so much! As for what inspired me to start writing, I was a big reader, and I used to think about the plots and the different ways I would have changed them. And so I just decided to try it. I was 13 at the time. I fell in love with it, and I never stopped. As for writing other kinds of books, not any time soon. I'm happy writing historicals, and as long as Avon keeps buying them, I'll keep writing them.
Hi Maureen! Yes, I do LOTS of research, but then that's my favorite part. Although after 20 books, I know my time periods pretty well, at least about how people live, so I don't have to look things up all the time. I don't like to interrupt the flow of writing a scene, so if I need to research something, I leave myself a note and do it later. Because otherwise, I get lost in a book and I forget to keep writing!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
- Marie said...
The trilogy sounds great! Love the title and cover for Taken and Seduced.
marieimy (at) gmail (dot) com - April 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Estella said...
I haven't read any of your books, but am always glad to find a new author.
firstname.lastname@example.com - April 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Julia Latham said...
Thanks, Marie! I love the cover, too!
Estella, hope you enjoy my books!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Virginia said...
Hi Julia, I have always wondered why authors have several pen names? I can understand one pen name, but some authors have several.
- April 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- Virginia said...
Forgot to leave my e-mail.
lead[at]hotsheet[dot]com - April 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- Julia Latham said...
Hi Virginia, yes, if an author writes many different types of book, she might choose several pseudonyms. But I can't imagine more than two--hard enough to keep track of them!
Julia - April 9, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- macbeaner said...
Wow. Sounds like an awesome book! :)
What would your favorite book of all time be?
Thank you! - April 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- Caffey said...
Hi Julia!!!
This is a fun question! If you could invite up to 5 authors/famous people living or from the past, to your home for tea, who would you invite and what would you have always wanted to ask/say to them?
(For sure I'd love to meet with Jane Austin. So that's an example if I didn't explain it well!) - April 10, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- Caffey said...
I meant to put this in too, is there any place you'd like to visit and set a book in that you haven't yet?
Thanks again! I'm thrilled about your books! - April 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM
- Julia Latham said...
macbeaner, my favorite book of all time is Kathleen Woodiwiss's Shanna! Sigh...fell in love with that book in high school.
Caffey, 5 famous people--that's a hard one! Definitely Kathleen Woodiwiss. I did get to meet her once, but only a sentence's worth. I would love to talk to her about how she first came up with her revolutionary story ideas. And I'm with you--Jane Austen. Brilliant woman. Maybe Charles Dickens. Love to talk to him about Victorian England. Maybe Benjamin Franklin. I have a fascination for the Revolutionary period, and he was such a renaissance man. JRR Tolkien. Lord of the Rings was such a part of my youth--I'd love to pick his brain.
As for where I'd like to visit--every little corner of England, of course! I'd like to visit Cornwall someday (although I have already set a book there).
Julia - April 10, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- drey said...
Julia ~ How do you keep the "voices" of your two names separate? You must do a good job, since commenters have pointed out that they didn't know you were both... =)
dreyshouse at gmail dot com - April 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Julia Latham said...
Hi Drey! Writing in two very different time periods keeps my voice distinct, I think. Medieval language is a bit more formal, with some period words thrown in, so it "sounds" different. That's pretty much it!
Julia, off to pick a winner out of a hat for free copy of Taken and Seduced - April 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM


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We arrived Saturday at 4pm (check-in time was 3pm), our room wasn't ready but the front desk informed us it wouldn't be long and took down my number to call when it was ready, he figured in about 20 mins. Left our bags with the bellman who said they would take care of it getting up to our room, and we went through the Shops at the Bellevue to kill some […] time and grab a bite to eat. An hour passed and we still hadn't heard from the front desk so we went back and asked for an update on the room and were told it was ready. Looked in the bathroom, no shower/tub combo as described in the booking. We got a handicap room with a roll-in shower, not what we wanted. My fiancee called down to the front desk, they did not have any rooms with shower/tub combos left, so we wouldn't be able to change rooms. Also noticed that the "city view" was anything but, our room was on the inside of the hotel and our view consisted of a small window overlooking some sort of courtyard, not what we were promised. Tried to make reservations for dinner at both onsite restaurants, but were told they were completely booked. Tried making an appointment to get a massage at the spa that morning but were told that it was completely booked. Overall, we did not get the experience we were hoping for, especially for a romantic night away from home. Did not feel we got the luxury we paid for, and had I known the experience would've been this way I would've booked at one of the many other hotels in the area. Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"great location"
Great large room but the bed was soft and the air system didn't work to well so I was a bit uncomfortable. But so great in terms of location and value.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
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A grand old hotel built with great details and flourish in 1929, beautifully restored and maintained. Great for a long weekend stay. Great location for exploring and enjoying Philadelphia.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Turn of the century grandeur"
A classic grand hotel, with great service. Highly recommend the restaurants and amenities on the 19th floor. The architecture takes you back to another era or grandeur and style. Thoroughly enjoyed the stay.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Nice location for the arts and restaurants"
The room was average size with a below average size bathroom. The hotel was well maintained and the staff was very helpful. Our room did not have available outlets by the bed for our phone chargers. The location was great as a starting and destination for the shops bars and entertainment in the area.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Time to gut and start over . . ."
Hotel needs to be re-done at this point. Doors are thin and don't seal well. Hallway noise comes right in and was never sure if the door was properly locked. No after-hours room service and no wet bar. No convenience store for late-night arrivals either. (I was directed to try across the street.# Hair left in the tub when I arrived #gross#. Bathroom […] ceiling had brown stains like rust was comingt through the paint or something. Shower curtain didn't work well, so floor flooded after I got out of the show #yes, it was used properly). Windows rattled all night and toilet kept loudly re-filing every 15 minutes or so without flushing. Only saving grace is the locations, the shops attached and the bar at the top. Hotel should be gutted to the studs and they should start over. Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
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Hyatt at the Bellevue exhibits old world charm in the bustle of Philadelphia Center City. Hotel has age but shows well. Amenities are updated and rooms are furnished in a smart modern, yet comfortable way. Food was delicious and front desk was polite and accommodating. I would recommend to anyone.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Great Experience"
Rooms were ver big and beds were great. Service at the hotel was top notch and I would definitely stau there again.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
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"In the middle of everything!"
The room was more than we expected! it was huge, very comfortable and nicely decorated! The lobby was very elegant. We visited the downstairs food court a couple of times, which was great! .. we walked from the hotel to all of the touristy stuff Philly has to offer! Excellent service! If we return to Philly, this hotel would be our first option!Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Old but classic"
This is a very old classic hotel. And it's huge! I got a standard room w breakfast included. My room was probably about 600 sq ft including the bathroom and what made it seem even bigger was the ceilings were very high. The breakfast was good but honestly for the $25 they charge you it's not worth it. There are more then plenty of choices to get any […] meal close to the hotel. There is even a food court in the building for the corporate offices. If you choose the included breakfast you can get the buffet or menu option. Even if you want half and half they are difficult and watch you like a hawk! It's rude and annoying! The biggest selling point for me was there is a huge fantastic gym in the building and it's free for hotel guests. The hotel location was good but a lot of business people and corporate offices make it seem not so vacation like. I was there for work so it was good for me. Overall the hotel is good not great. It's definitely older but in a classic way Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Old lady with undeniable charm"
The hotel is very old style but has a non-deniable charm particular for people who like and appreciate this sort of style. It has been very well maintained and the grandness of this hotel is amazing. The rooms are extremely large and generous and there is nothing to complain about. We only stayed for one night but liked it very much. The location is […] great, walking distance to everything. We had dinner on Christmas Day at the Nineteens Restaurant, which was amazing. The restaurant is beautiful and its interior breath taking with a great view and the food was delicious as well. Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
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First Rate Gym...Best everAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Great Old Hotel"
My wife and I enjoyed our stay and found the hotel to be very romantic. Breakfast was very relaxing and pleasant. If you enjoy great old historic hotels this is your place. Elegant and grand, the hotel is a destination unto itself. On Broad Street, convenient, reasonably priced and offering easy parking, this hotel is a good choice for visiting center […] city Philadelphia. However, if you insist on the most modern accomodations this may not be your place. Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
Tento host nezanechal poznámku.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
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Our family loved the hotel. What an elegant, beautiful, old building. The room was comfortable and the staff friendly and helpful. The location was perfect and the price was just right. Thanks for a great experience.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Top notch accomodations but a little noisy"
The Bellevue is one of the nicest hotels in the country: spacious rooms and elegance everywhere. However, the 12th floor has the conservatory (common space), wgich can get noisy and the rooms are not fully soundproof. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay otherwise.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Our Weekend Date"
The is Hyatt staff makes for a great stay hands down but I must say that my wife and I think the Bellevue has such a rich feel for a older build. The overall presentation of the Hyatt and its surroundings of top notch restaurants, shop and department stores give it the best location in the city of Philadelphiafor a visit.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"The best breakfast in town"
Very lovely hotel with historic charm. Not in its prime, but overall very comfortable. Room is huge by Hyatt standard. Don't miss a breakfast at XIX (was included in our rate). Fresh fruits, pastries out of oven, salmon and bagels - worth every penny!Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
We enjoyed the location, but there are some issues related to the room's age. The staff was accomodating, but we really did not expect some of these problems from a Hyatt.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Urban Art Deco Gem"
Very close to all the historic sites and Jefferson University -- great old classic hotel with outstanding service - built in 1902 and architecturally preserved so it is beautiful -- renovated to modern standards so quite comfortable - highly recommend place if you need to stay near the historic districtAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Nice room , BUT"
One bulb burned out in bathroom - crack in bathroom sink, no leak but no attempted esthetic repair - outer older original windows loose, rattling throughout the night during wind/rain storm - inner storm windows intact but could not effect temporary repair of rattling outer windows resulting in somewhat sleepless nightAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Great hotel for couples or girlfriends"
A great old hotel with modern conviences. We enjoyed our stay. We had a great corner room.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Great stay in the City of Brotherly Love"
Great place to stay and visit the local interests. Very nice staff and the room was clean. The bed was AWESOME. Very comfortable. I was born and raised in Philly and it was fun being a tourist.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
Wonderful hotel- gorgeous architecture, extremely polite and friendly staff. Peferct location for enjoying the best restaurants and shopping in Philly.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"Close to everything, restuarants, shops, city sigh"
Very good stay, had a great time. Only a couple minor issues that only bother me because of the price, end table was half/broke and crooked, in room fridge wasn't very cold and door was messed up. In room dining service was excellent!Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
"meh to the meh"
Snagged a KING room for two nights with my girlfriend over Thanksgiving. The hotel was very nice, the room was simply alright. There are many rooms that look out over an "atrium" area in the middle of the building, so some rooms do not have windows that look outside. Not a huge deal though as the ceilings were pretty high so it opened the room up. Secondly, […] because I was there only two nights I decided that my towels and sheets didn't really need to be washed to I left my privacy card out my entire stay. I had someone call the room twice with no one on the other line, then had someone knock and ask if "everything was alright". This was a little suspicious and sort of violates the whole "privacy thing"... To top it all off, the fridge was lukewarm. Overall, wouldn't recommend this place. MEH. Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka společnosti Expedia
"Could not ask for more"
Price was right, location was convenient to everything, room was spacious. Lots of shopping and dining options, courteous staff, close to subway and historic district- what more could you ask for? If I had to pick one thing for improvement, I would say the elevators were a little confusing- the main ones in the lobby only went to select floors, and […] the full service elevators were kind of hidden. Kind of minor, once you got used to the layout though. Would definitely recommend this hotel! Další informaceAutentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
It would have been fine if there wasn't blood on the shower walls and a bloodied bandaid left on the bathroom floor.Autentické hodnocení od zákazníka Hotels.com
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I don't think he was set on calling people things like "crass." You may not agree with him, but there's no need for that. Also, from what I've been told that "picture of blown glass" is a lot more than just that. Sexual profanity? I knew Jorick and I have no problem with him whatsoever. But unless you are actively talking to the moderators and people in charge of the forum then there really is no need for the drama festival.
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Who is the "he" in your first sentence? Jorick? MLK? I personally saw the tentacle and it truly was an artistic sublimation of the oceans beautiful little demon. You heard otherwise? You have been told wrong, and probably by the same masses that are taking this slight against our justice as everyday come-up-ins against a previous accused criminal. They have infiltrated your mind to such a level that you state you "knew" Jorick like they erased his continuing existence from your mind with a single ban. I revoke my statement about clirkus being crass, because now I have met you and seen the true crass nature that can flourish once one has been indoctrinated by the system.
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Problem with running Vyzex Editor (screen). I found this bug on 2 computers with WinXPSP2 and WinXPSP3 installed.
How can I resolve this problem? ))
Hello Andy,
Usually our colleague PSICraftTony (from PSICraft, the company that created the Vyzex Editor) answers questions concerning the Pocket POD Vyzex editor application.
However, just taking a quick look at your screenshot... I don't understand Russian, but it appears that the editor may not be recognizing your hardware unit connection.
First, please complete your System Profile here: http://line6.com/account/supportProfile/
Obviously, you can start by trying an uninstall of the application. Then, perform a clean installation (on both computers, if possible).
You should try all available direct USB ports on both computers. If you have a different USB cable, try that as well. Also, be sure to have constant power supplied to your unit other than batteries. These are just basic troubleshooting steps to start with.
Hi Andy,
I am going to private message you with access to an unreleased patch that should fix this issue. A forthcoming official update to Vyzex Pocket POD will include the patch, but for now the private message technique will get you running again.
PsicraftTony (from Psicraft Designs)
Hi Marca,
Autosense issues are not the same as a crash on startup. Anyone else encountering AutoSense or missing USB MIDI ports in Windows should check out the newly posted Troubleshooting Guide PDF. It contains all the information needed to identify and resolve these issues. You can access the document under the Documents tab of the Vyzex Editor forum.
For those who encounter a complete program crash when launching the program, I am currently providing private access to an unreleased patch file. This patch will be included in the next official release of Vyzex Pocket POD, which will be available to the public in the coming months.
Best regards,
I am also experiencing the Vyzex PocketPOD 1.05 crash at startup on Windows XP SP3. "I get a dialog box with "The instruction at "0x00409a9c" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read"."
Check your private messages...
I'm having the same problem. I did a fresh install of the Vyzex 1.05 editor, the USB Audio device is found bij Windows (XP/SP3). After starting the editor I get: "Midi Quest 10 / XL has encountered a problem and needs to close."
What can I do?
I'm also having trouble starting Vyzex. It crashes so fast that I don't see any error message, if there is any.
I just see the interface for half a second and the application entirly disappear.
Could I have the patch too?
Md & Guitar,
Check your Private Messages...
Hi Tony,
did you receive my email?
Hi Guitar,
If you go by the name Morris, then yes I did. You should have a reply to read by now.
Hi Tony,
I think I'm the next one having the startup crash problem...
Could you please help me too?
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You are PM'ed Herr Skarpak...
Hi, i just bought the pocket pod and i'm having the same problem (startup crash).
Hi Psicraft Tony,
I am having exactly the same problem - blue screen when I run Vyzex pocket pod interface.
Can you please send me the patch too?
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Blue screen?
You're not running Windows 2000 are you?
i have also crashed could i have help please cheers
Have you downloaded the v1.7 version of the program? It doesn't have the issue that this thread was about.
Get it at: http://line6.com/software/, select these options and press the Go button.
Make sure to select version 1.17 for download, not one of the earlier ones:
If you are using the latest version of Vyzex PocketPOD, you should not require any patches or fixes.
Can someone please send me a fix. It's almost 2 years later and software is still at version 1.05. I need help!
As of July 17, 2009, the official release version of Vyzex PocketPOD is v1.17: This version does not require the crash patch, and is superior in every way to version 1.05.
The download can be accessed from http://line6.com/software/. Don't forget to read the included 'Vyzex PocketPOD Pilot's Guide' PDF to get a grip on the significant changes to how the program works!
Does this new release also update the firmware on the Pocket Pod?
Hi Charley,
A pending future release of Line6 Monkey is going to perform this task. The Vyzex editor is not going to serve as an upgrade tool.
Stay tuned for more news on this front...
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As they move from their early teens to their late teens, kids no longer want to be pals with Mom and Dad. Teenage boys are much less likely than girls to initiate conversations with their parents. And moms baby their sons.
Not exactly news flashes, you say? But we're not talking about real life here, exactly. We're talking about Facebook.
The world's largest social network released new data Thursday about how parents and their children interact online. But the findings, from Facebook's data science team, also illustrate how personal interactions on Facebook can mirror those in the so-called real world.
"With the holidays approaching, and families gathering all over the world, we wanted to understand how parents and children on Facebook communicate," says the post, which crunches friend requests, conversations and other Facebook data from the past two months.
"We are happy to see that our data surfaces the affection, care, and closeness of family ties."
Here are the highlights of what Facebook found:
Who friends whom: More than 65 percent of friendships between 13-year-olds and their parents are initiated by the child. But the older the teenager gets, the less likely he or she is to be the one sending the friend request. By the time kids are in their early to mid-20s, their parents are initiating friend requests with them 60 percent of the time.
As kids grow into their 30s and 40s, however, they begin friending their parents more often again.
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Undead and Undermined
MaryJanice Davidson - Author
There's no guarantee in life. Or for that matter, death… Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse. Her last memory is reconciling with her husband, Eric Sinclair, after a time-traveling field trip to hell (literally) with her sister, Laura. Now, she's Jane Doe #291, wrapped in plastic with a toe tag. Betsy can't help but wonder, what in hell happened? For starters, she and Laura didn't time-travel alone. What followed them had a wicked agenda: to kill Betsy in a time when she was young and vulnerable and end her future reign as queen. But it's not just Betsy's future that's taken an unexpected detour. Everyone in her circle, alive or undead, is feeling the chill. Betsy can't let the unthinkable happen. It would be a cold day in hell if she did. When the awful racket started up, when the coroner got ready to open my skull with what I later found out was a Stryker autopsy saw, I was fine with it. No, more than that… it seemed like a really, really good idea. Not just a good idea for me. It would be great for everyone involved. And if you took the long view, it would be good for humanity. Because I'd had enough. Case closed, everybody out of the pool, time to shut off the lights and lock up, hit the trail, shake a leg, beat feet, get gone, get out. I was out. How sucky was it that I knew, knew the one thing worse than waking up on an embalming table was waking up inside a body bag? I did not ever want to know that. No one should know that. Oh, and while we're compiling a list of things no one should know? No one should know that they grow upgrow old, anywayto torture their friends. That they either brought about (or didn't bother to prevent) a scary-ass nuclear winter apocalyptic event resulting in the very real possibility of freezing to death on the Fourth of July. No one should know that, on the off chance they turn into an ancient evil vampire crone, they forget all sense of fun and, worse, fashion. Gray dresses! What the fuck? So even though the buzzing whine of the saw felt like the coroner was already slicing me open, I laid still and did my impersonation of a corpse. Hey, everybody's good at something. Graham Benton lit a cigarette with trembling fingers. He did not smoke but had been able to score a butt and a lighter from a member of the I'm-Cutting-Back-I-Swear tribe. Graham did not smoke, had never smoked, but was determined to start immediately. The door to the doctor's lounge wheezed open and Graham observed his attending, the extraordinarily hairy Dr. Carter (and didn't the two of them get shit, Dr. Benson and Dr. Carter? Like he needed another reason to hate NBC), practically tiptoe into the close, windowless, burnt-coffee-and-disinfectant-smelling room. Carter's beard had recently been trimmed, so the ends merely brushed his throat instead of his nipples. His dark, curly chest hair was trying to burst through his scrubs shirt. He had begged permission to jettison the de rigueur lab coat and, after he'd proven to the other chief residents that his mat of body hair kept him adequately warm, they relented. Hairy Carter was perturbing enough; Sweaty Red-faced Hairy Carter was an abomination unto the Lord. "Sooooo." Carter coughed. It sounded like a truck laboring uphill in the wrong gear. "Bad night, Dr. Benson?" "It's the wee hours of the morning, Carey." This was a breach of etiquette; interns and residents did not call department heads by their first names without invitation. And Graham would never, ever ask. Nor would he ever think twice about breaking any etiquette guideline. His intelligence, drive, and skill were why he got away with it. "'Bad night' isn't just dumb, Carey. And it isn't just inaccurate. It's dumb. And, yeah. I said that already." He sucked on the sullenly smoldering cigarette and thought, Millions of people smoke these things? Several times a day? For years? Voluntarily? I was right all along: 99.5% of the human race is comprised by idiots, and the other 0.05% by morons. "Listen, we're all with you. Except for your new weird habit. I'm worried about you." Benson shook his head at the almost-extinguished cigarette. "And there's not a person in this department who doesn't sympathize." He fingered his collar. The scrubs were soft from many washings. "Lie." "There's at least one person in this department who sympathizes, probably." "Gee whiz. I feel so much better. The steaming, fretful masses view me with pity. Or at least one does. Probably." "You have to admit, it's not every day a patient wakes up in the middle of an" Graham felt his teeth meet, and most of the cigarette fell out of his mouth, decapitated by his involuntarily chomp. "She didn't wake up, she was dead. She wasn't in a coma. She didn't have hypothermia. She was dead. There was nothing to wake up from." "Okay, Graham, but semantics won't" "Flatline! Brain dead! Pupils fixed and dilated! Body temp falling… body temp almost room temp, do you get that? Guess what? People don't wake up from that! You want to guess why? Because when you're at room temp, you! Are! Dead!" He grabbed at his neck again, restlessly kneading the fabric. "So, help me out here, are you saying she woke up then yelled, or yelled and then woke up?" Graham slumped forward and rested his forehead on the cracked, pitted tabletop. "You've come here to kill me, haven't you? But you've gotta bug me to death to do it, right? Remember your oath, doctor, and summon the decency to make it quick." Finally! This must be the slowest or sleepiest coroner in the history of forensic science. It was like he didn't know there were people in his morgue who had an agenda. I couldn't speak for the other dead guys in this chilly tomb, but I couldn't afford to loll around on an autopsy table all night. I wondered if he knew how selfish he was being. Just because I was dead didn't mean I wasn't in a hurry. Bad enough I had given up on life/death and was resigned to permanent exile to… where do the souls of sadistic despots-in-training go after death-for-real? Hell? Not for what they've done, but what they will do? Or do we still get to heaven because we didn't live long enough to bring about (or don't bother to prevent) the end of the world? Because we hadn't quite gotten the chance to turn on friends and family in order to save our own ass? Wherever I was supposed to end up, I'd be there in a couple more minutes. Then this would be done. I'd be done. (Oh where oh Elizabeth where oh my own where are you?) I softly groaned, which was drowned out by the saw. I could shut my eyes (as I was) and I could clamp my hands over my ears (which I didn't dare), but couldn't shut my brain off. Couldn't block my husband's thoughts. I had to, though. His life and my soul depended on it. "Of course I remember everything." Graham pinched the bridge of his nose. He wore the expression of a man forced to tolerate exceptional stupidity. He looked like that a lot. "It was half an hour ago. I'm freaked out, not brain dead." "Do you… do you mind going over it again?" "Of course I mind, you hirsute moron." "You start a lot of sentences with 'of course.'" "I get asked a lot of dumbass questions, of course. Did you catch how I mixed it up that time? And to answer your silly-ass question, I should be focusing on psychologically blocking the last hour, but I'm sitting here, aren't I? I haven't even gotten to the weirdest part yet, you believe that?" His chief gave him a manly clap on the shoulder. The pathologist winced and prayed his shoulder hadn't been dislocated. "I want you to know we all get why you decided to work with dead people. No one ever thought that was anything but a spectacular idea. I say again: spectacular! We're just worried you're going to be hauled away in screaming hysterics and come back determined to do a peds rotation." "Pediatrics?" Fresh horror swept over him like a freezing bath. "Never! I will never stock suckers! And I will never give out stickers! I will never say, My how big you've grown!" "You're getting shrill again, Graham." He resisted the urge to bang his head on the table. "I hate everyone. But you most of all." "And the world continues to turn," his boss said with maddening cheer. "Soooo… you're still gung ho for the pathology residency?" "What are the odds of another patient coming to life under my knife?" Cripes, his neck itched. "Look: I want the rest of the day off. I want you to deal with Admin and then I want you to go away. When I finish eating this cigarette, I'm outta here. I'll be back tomorrow by shift change. There's nothing else to talk about." "How goes the psychological blocking?" "It goes shitty. I can remember everything. Everything that happened and everything she said." "So she did talk to you. Y'know, that's the weirdest of all. That she could be lucid after" "After what, coming back to life? Why wouldn't she be? You're not listening, Chief: she was dead. Not in a coma. Dead. I'm concerned, Benson. You don't seem to be getting this." "I'm concerned, too," said his bosswho really was an okay guy once you got used to his perpetually sunny mood"but for different reasons." "Weirdest night of my life, and I'm not a rookie, right? I've seen things; every path resident has. Shit, every doctor has. But the things she said, and then what she did, that was the weirdest of all, and I don't say that lightly." "Far as I know, you've never said anything lightly." "Including right now. She was completely dead one minute. And completely alive the next. What ifwhat if she had woken up when I cracked her sternum?" He could actually feel his mind trying to shy away from the image, distracting him by focusing on the woman's extraordinary good looks and charisma. "She didn't, though." Benson coughed and shuffled his feet. He wasn't used to Graham wanting reassurance. And Graham wasn't used to needing it. "Everything's fine." "This is my blood," he said quietly, touching the dark fabric. Path scrubs were dark brown, a superb choice for obvious reasons. His chief had made a natural assumption: the blood on his shirt was from the autopsy. It was also an incorrect assumption. "She bit me." He stared at the table. His irritation and panic and fright were subsiding into pissed off and horny. "She said she was sorry, after." "She did what?" "This is going to take much longer if you keep with all the dumb questions. Or did you need to look into getting a hearing aid? Can you hear me? Do you need a sign-language interpreter? Helloooooo?" "You never mind my possible need for a hearing aid or sign language." Carter visibly relaxed. The irascible, touchy Graham was a known quantity. Not like the Graham of the last five minutes. "Tell the rest!" So he did. Don't answer him! And don't think. Yeah, right. I could stop myself from telepathically answering the vampire king (who was the only person in existence with a telepathic ticket into my head, poor guy), but stop thinking about him? Suuure. Just like I could stop thinking about Manolo's new line or my near-continual thirst for blood. Or the fact that, one day, I'll be a vicious, brittle tyrant more interested in raising zombies than saving my marriage… and my friends. I didn't know how I'd gotten here. I didn't know what had happened to me. I had vague memories of some kind of argument… or was it an actual fight? Something about the devil… and my sister? Could that be right? It probably wasn't right, dammit, and it didn't matter, either. I didn't know what had happened, and I was sticking with that story. And guess what? I didn't give a tin shit, either. My death was an excellent preventative for destroying the world. (O my own Elizabeth where are you do not be hurt do not be hurt oh please please DO NOT BE HURT.) I fought to keep my expression deadlike. I was an ordinary corpse in a room that was freezing. No shivering vampires here. Nobody sort of sentient on this table. (It had to be a table, something big and tall and made of steel… and freezing cold!) If I let this happen to me, the world was safe. Better: Marc and Sinclair were safe. Well. Safe from me, anyway. The king wouldn't be safe from all the vamps trying to fill the power vacuum once I was chopped up like a Cobb salad. But I couldn't think about that. I had to keep my focus; if I lived, the world was doomed. If I lived… (WHERE ARE YOU? PLEASE PLEASE ANSWER, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? WHO HAS TAKEN YOU? ELIZABETH, FIGHT THEM, FIGHT THEM FIGHT THEM UNTIL I CAN FIGHT THEM FOR YOU!) That was good advice, actually. Fight them until he could fight them for me. (He was so gloriously, stupidly chauvinistic at times.) Good advice… too bad I couldn't apply it to my situation. How could I fight myself? Especially when I was so evil and had such terrible taste in clothes, and was ancient and yukky? Well. Let's think about that for a second. How could I? Maybe that was the wrong question; maybe I should be asking, how couldn't I? Who better to save him from me… than me? Would hiding and dying really be the best course of action? Or would it make things easier for the Big Bads meddling in our lives? Or would it merely make things easier for me? God knew I tended to take the low road when it came to confrontation. The Antichrist and I had that in common. Was that it? Was I really that… that dimly lazy? Was this going to come about because I didn't want to do the work? Tell you what: if I knew Sinclair was letting himself get killed to help me, I'd kick him in his undead 'nads. I'd scream at him until my eyes crossed. I'd dunk his big stupid head down a well. And kick him in his undead 'nads! And I'd be right. Just like Sinclair was right. I'd save him. I'd save us, I'd save the world. I had no idea how, and I had no idea what it would cost me. But I had to do it. Not because there was no one else, although there wasn't. Because it was my job. Or did I think the queen of the undead thing, as lame as it had always seemed to me, was something I could do part-time, like picking up extra shifts at McDonalds? "She bit you?" "Yeah. And it was the first thing that made sense that whole hour. Get it? She was a vampire. Those things are true. The stories are all true. Except…" He frowned, remembering. "Oh, I can't wait to hear your 'except.' Hit me. Please not literally." "Except, she wore a cross around her neck. A little gold one. But everything else fit. She really was dead when they brought her in, and when the sun went down… came back. And she asked where she was. I could tell she was trying to be nice. I could tell…" Benson raised his eyebrows in silent encouragement. Graham had never seen the jolly path chief so wide-eyed. "I could tell she was trying not to scare me." "How did she do that? How did she seem?" Graham grinned for the first time that evening. "Angry and naked. And smokin' hot." He groaned and rested his forehead on the table. "It's so wrong that I'm thinking about a vampire's awesome rack right now." The buzzing whine of the saw was still filling the air… I'd had all these thoughts in about a second and a half. And it was getting louder, so the saw was getting closer. Playtime was over. Should I or shouldn't I was over. Boo-hoo, I'm going to destroy the world so time to lie down and be dead was over, over, over. I opened my eyes and caught the doc's wrist about a millimeter and a half from my hair. "You can't have my brain," I told the pale (and getting paler) fellow. "I need it to save my husband. And you, too, in a way." I saw his thumb spasm and the whine of the saw lessened and then stopped altogether, tapering off with a sort of metallic moan: BBBBZZZZZbbbbbzzzzbbbbzzzzzmmmm. His mouth opened but nothing came out. Just as well, really. I wasn't interested in a lengthy conversation. "I also need some clothes," I continued, sitting up and crossing my legs, and using my other arm to shield my tits. Which was stupid; he'd already seen me naked. In fact, I'd been nakedly exposed since he unzipped the body bag, then unceremoniously dumped me onto this big shiny table. No sheets! They just flop the naked corpses onto the tables where they can ogle our dead nudity, the pervs. Law and Order lied to me! Oh, and the toe tag? Hurt like a bitch! (Who'd have thought? It hurts when someone ties a wire around your big toe and then cinches it tight. Savages.) The poor doc dropped the big shiny saw-thingy, and I caught it before it could break half the bones of his foot. Far from being reassured by my swift, toe-saving action, he went whiter (if possible; could paper get paler? Could marshmallow fluff? Mmm, marshmallow fluff…) and backed away. "Sorry to scare you." Nothing. "Uh, I don't suppose you know how I got here?" Still nothing, this time accompanied by so much head shaking, at first I thought he was having a seizure. I thought: Better not get off the table and follow him across the room just yet. This was no time for the one who wasn't a corpse to get hysterical. I tried again. "Do you maybe know where I am? Come on, you must know where I am. Think hard. Hey, I'll even give you a hint: it's where you are. Anything? Bueller? Bueller? Also, stop staring at my tits." "Dead," he told me. "Betsy Taylor." I stuck out my hand. "I'll be the corpse you're not cutting up today. Maybe you should sit down." Worried, I hopped off the table and steadied him. "Listen, I'm not dangerous or anything." This was a gigantic lie, but one told in a good cause. The poor guy really did look like he was going to plant a header right in the middle of my freezing steel table. "You didn't wake up," he explained, "you couldn't because you're dead." The doc was slender and short, with wispy blond hair and bulging blue eyes. His voice was a surprising baritone… I would have expected him to sound more reedy in his terror. "You didn't wake up. You couldn't wake up. Because you're dead." "No, I didn't. And yep, I am. But while I was waiting for you to get down to it, I had a better idea then letting you chop up my brain, so I sprang into action, all heroic and determined to right wrongs and stuff. Wasn't it cool?" I set down the saw. Ohhhh, boy. I was sooo thirsty. Poor guy. Feeding right now radically increased my chances of getting the hell out of here and back to the mansion. Thus, I would feed right now. Poor guy. "Listen, can I have some scrubs? Or my clothes? And maybe your car keys? And can I borrow your cell phone? Oh, hell, just give me everything you can get your hands on." I briskly clapped my hands in front of his face. "Dude! Ándele. That's Spanish for get your ass in gear, scrubs." Dear Reader, This is not the last Betsy book! I don't normally start promotion for the current book by talking about the next one. But I just chugged a Coke to chase down a bunch of Tootsie Rolls, and I'm thrillin' so high on my sugar jones, I can't remember anything about Undermined . Okay, that's not true. What is true is that you've driven me to it. This is just so typical of you, too. After all the things I've done for you! After all the books I've written for you even though I love writing more than I love gravy and would have done it anyway, you! Oh, sure, I've got a dream job and am paid to do what I would do for free because I'm incredibly lucky. Naturally you're gonna bring that up. (Memo to me: prevent editor from reading this page. Further memo to me: soothe agent after he has what is euphemistically called "a cardiac event"when he reads this page and realizes my editor has read this page.) Now where…oh, right. Writing for free. No, wait…that's not it. Undead and Undermined is not the last Betsy book…that's where I was. And a good thing, too. Because it's not. Longtime fans of the Betsy books know by now that something unpleasant happened at the end of the last one, Undead and Unfinished. (Readers new to the series should fret not; I try to explain the goings-on in the past books so newbies aren't entirely lost. Usually I'm not on a sugar high when I do this.) This brought me a torrent of reader mail, some of which was even positive. I didn't explain at the time that Unfinished was not the end of the series, and that was my fault. You were viciously blindsided! I, um, sort of thought the title was self-explanatory but in this, as in when I tried to make a hat out of sugar cubes and then went for a walk in a crow-infested cornfield, I was terribly terribly wrong. Unfinished wasn't the end of the series. Neither is Undermined. The good news: you'll have more books to hate! (See? See the things I do for you?) The bad news: the Betsy books are a series. So, pretty deliberately, I try not to tie everything up at the end of each book. I leave things untied. I leave things so untied that they could flap in the wind, like shoelaces. Oooh, that was a good metaphor. Or was it a simile? Whichever it was, I'm on board. Anyway! Although many things are resolved in this book, there are still a few shoelaces that have to be…yeah, I've had about enough of that metaphor. Or simile. Either way: I'm out! I can break the bad news down for you into a couple of good chunks, though. Yes, some things are left unresolved in Undermined but will absolutely be resolved in Unstable. The good news is, I'm beyond a Disney girl. I think the Disney endings aren't happy enough. (I also think they have a huge hate-on for moms, but that's a topic for another day. Oh, Walt Disney, what did that woman do to you?) So things will, eventually, be worked out to my satisfaction. And maybe even yours! But mostly mine. To take a break from the sarcasm slush above, I will in all seriousness say you readers have changed my life. When the first book in the series, Undead and Unwed, came out, I was working 50 hours a week as an office manager and squeezing in chapters between work and kids and work. Eleven Betsy books later, writing is my full-time job. And being a freelance writer is even more awesome than I ever, ever dreamed. It's a lot like having a job as a gravy tester. Even if you're testing scorched gravy…dude! It's gravy! To put it another way: I didn't spend eleven books winning you guys over just to screw you in the end. How could I? Thanks to you guys, I'm a gravy tester! I mean, freelance writer. So hop on board the (gravy) train (yeah, that's enough about gravy, I think) and you'll see what you'll see. Who knows? You might like the new scenery. That's my hope, anyway. And if you don't, my hope is that you'll let me know. I truly do love hearing from you guys either way. No, really. No. Really! As always, I'm grateful for your time and attention. Now I gotta go. I'm weirdly thirsty for gravy, of all things. MaryJanice Davidson |
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The Cherokee County Public Library has on ongoing book sale. Get paperbacks for as little as a dime and hardbacks for as little as 50 cents or $1. The library is open today from 8 a.m. until noon. Call the library at 256-927-5838 for further information.
Visit the beautiful Rock Village, home of some of the best hiking and rock climbing throughout the world. Enjoy fresh air and beautiful scenery. Go to the intersection of U.S. Highway 411 and Highway 68 in Leesburg, turn right, turn left on Cherokee County 36, to the intersection of County Road 36 and County Road 70, turn left and follow the signs.
Visit the historic Cornwall Furnace on Cherokee County Road 92 in Cedar Bluff.
Cherokee Home Health is recruiting volunteers. For more information, please call 256-927-1144.
The 21st Century Program in partnership with the Humane Society in Cedar Bluff is collecting items for animals in the shelter through Dec. 17. Donations can be dropped off at Centre Elementary School or sent with a student. For more information call Kelly Hopper at 256-927-3302 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sunday, Nov. 25
The Centre First Baptist Church contemporary worship service, "Impact" begins at 8:30 a.m.
The Edge, a contemporary worship service that welcomes each person as he or she is and challenges us all to grow together in our faith in Jesus Christ, meets at 8:45 a.m. at Centre First United Methodist Church.
Daniel Chapel Methodist Church in the Little River Community approximately nine miles north of Leesburg on Highway 273 is having a singing Sunday, Nov. 25, beginning at 6 p.m. Special guests will be Weiss Lake Bluegrass. Everyone is invited to attend.
Upper Room Temple hosts a singing every fourth Sunday at 11 a.m. For more information, call 256-643-5896.