Comments on: Monday Morning Stepback –Updated with call for Winsor Lists!!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:01:18 +0000

Yes, some of the depairwear is harsh. Normally, I like to try to be empathetic and supportive, but sometimes it really fits my mood.

RWA sounds exactly like the American Philosophical Association annual meeting — thousands of unemployed people interviewing for jobs they will not get. I think I will feel very much at home there.

By: Sherry Thomas

Sherry Thomas — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:03:28 +0000

I finally visited despair.com.

I think I’m a cold bitch, but boy, I’m not quite cold bitch enough for some of their posters. The Failure one is kind of heartbreaking.

(When newer writers ask me whether they should attend RWA Nationals, sometimes I ask them whether they can handle the visceral truth that most of the two thousand women they’ll see are chasing after the same few open slots available. Maybe a little delusion and hubris is helpful at times.)

Both the Sacrifice ones, however, crack me up.

By: Carolyn Crane

Carolyn Crane — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:12 +0000

I posted my list!!!

Here: http://thethrillionthpage.blogspot.com/2009/10/kathleen-winsor-tribute-my-top-16.html

By: Phyl

Phyl — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:13:22 +0000

My list is up. I already saw Kristie's and Wendy's and now I have more good stuff I want to read. I hope we'll see lots of lists today. It's always fun to see what others love. It's pretty clear from mine that I'm a Regency junkie. You can find mine here.

By: Anida Adler

Anida Adler — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:57:33 +0000

OMFG, I was familiar with Cake Wrecks and often enjoy browsing through the disasters there. Thanks for the Despair.com link, I adore that kind of stuff.

As for the pubes — rotflmfao!! My mom told me when I was a teen that shaving everything off down there is degrading for a woman, as it reduces you to pre-womanness or something. She clearly has not ever watched porn in her life. These days she’ll spout off about a lot of stuff that I just nod sagely about.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:05 +0000

@SonomaLass:

And I’m laughing my ass off at “Et tu, Pubis?”!

Good! I make like one joke a month, so I want credit when I come up with a decent one.

By: SonomaLass

SonomaLass — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:14:16 +0000

Aw, Jessica, I had no idea you had linked to my new rating system. Thanks! So glad you like it — and you too, Ann! I am finding it wonderfully freeing, and I’m much less lazy about posting quick book responses now that I just have to say WIN or FAIL. I’m a little compulsive about grading and scoring, being a wacky academic, and sometimes even the five stars at Goodreads intimidate me so that I don’t post at all.

Maili knows how I feel about top X lists, but I think I can manage to pick 16 romance novel WINS. I will have to list them alphabetically, though, or chronologically, because I am no damned good at hierarchical thinking. Or so I’ve been told.

And I’m laughing my ass off at “Et tu, Pubis?”!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:02:15 +0000

Thanks, Jessica! Now to think of a list…yum.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:58:54 +0000

Azteclady: Oh, I meant “pubis”, as in “et tu Brutus”. will fix!

Kristie: Yippee! I can’t wait to read your list.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:32:19 +0000

Jessica, I can’t help myself… do you realize that on your first reply you have “publis”?