A Mysterious Link and Mr. Romance 2007

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The Mystery of Snuffy continues. This is just tooooooo damn weird and cool and amazing and mind-boggling. You decide.

There's an anonymous comment on the blog from yesterday, when I posted a bit about Snuffy's email to me. The comment had just one link and it was unsigned. I cut and pasted this link and it came up to an ordinary Board of Director's page:

THE LINK THAT MADE ME GO OOOOOOOOOH

It's a boring page. Boring names. It contains names for the Library Board. But look to the right and check out the email addys. It's...it's...it's SNUFFY! OMG! Snuffy is a librarian at Durham County! I don't know who put that link on my comment area but it's either him or someone who knows Snuffy.

I don't know what to think. Does this mean that my books are now banned from the Durham County Library for being trash? ;-P AND, HOW COULD HE NOT KNOW WHO ANGELA KNIGHT OR LAURELL K. HAMILTON ARE????!

Interesting bit of mystery here, eh?

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I'll be on the road tomorrow, so posing will be sparse again for a few days. I'll be in Sacramento! Can't wait to chat with Susan Grant, pilot/author extraordinaire.

The address and phone number of the book store is on the right side of this blog. Hope to see you there!

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The Goddess La Nora Roberts is on the Time 100 list. She's in the TOP TEN, right after Leonardo di Caprio. Here's the link if you want to go through the complete list. I used the page where Nora appears: TIME 100 . I can't believe they put Justin Timberlake ahead of her. Sheesh.

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And now, the last main event at Houston RT:
MR. ROMANCE CONTEST

It was fun to play judge again. I always enjoy it. Front row seat watching men posing down, what's not to like? I sat by Chris Keesler, an editor from Dorchester, and he kept me laughing with his masculine comments as we put down our marks for "Pose," "Articulation," etc. Yeah, you read right. ARTICULATION. Hee.

I know, I know, it's cheezie and weird. The place can get to sound like the inside of a Chippendale's. Those who cringe at this side of the romance business usually don't attend. It's all done in fun, really. The models get a shot to be on the cover of a Dorchester book and head on to a year of possibly a new career in their lives. So they strut their stuff and show off why they would look good on a romance cover:



This guy has EIGHT kids. Eight. A woman from the audience asked him a question: "Do you have cable?"

I died laughing.



Jason had a great pose above. And I was pulled on stage to ask him a question. I asked: "What's your best pick up line?" All the ladies oohed. Jason gave me one of his sexy looks and said, "I'd say, "Girl, you're a parking ticket waiting to happen because you got FIiiiiiiiinnnne written all over you!"" Ooooh, he won a lot of cheers from the ladies! ;-)



Chris, a friend of mine, did well too.



This guy was a last minute substitute and his UNIFORM won. I think, when he walked to frontstage and snapped a salute, most of the judges gave him 100 points. LOL. He took second place.



The winner is dashing Jason. I'll have a close up of his pic with the other contestants once I get it scanned. That one was taken by a pro, not by a crazy judge sitting there balancing a camera and pen and laughing too hard to keep still. ;-)

All in all, RT was a fun time connecting with friends and readers. I just wish I was able to have dinner/lunch/breaks with everyone I've missed! RWA, huh? ;-)

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