If you are like me, when you heard about Harlequin contacting bloggers to issue e-bundles of Harlequin titles not available in electronic format, you gnashed your teeth and railed at the fates for unfairly excluding you were so pleased for them and immediately unsubscribed from their blog feeds and blocked them on twitter sent congratulatory emails. You may even have sent Harlequin a note, reminding them of your email address, because surely they had overlooked you in error, thanking them for being so creative and blogger friendly.

But after all that’s done, what next? Instead of starting a whisper campaign against those annoying bloggers, and then burning all of your Harlequins in your backyard of waiting for others to ask, simply go to your local pre-read bookstore and make your own bundle!

Other bloggers have chosen certain authors to bundle, but I in my infinitely superior wisdom which Harlequin is too ignorant to detect decided to pick a theme. And I am ready with my first bundle!

The theme is: these are the books my fingers touched when I closed my eyes and reached out to the stack of Harlequins

Look, I’m very pleased to be doing this. Here’s proof of my joy:

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So, my lucky readers … what does this bundle include?

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Of course, since it’s my bundle, I get to reimagine their titles, like so…

1. “Gee, I Wonder if That Hero is Really Smart? I see the Glasses, Beaker, Computer and Big Brain, but I’m Still Not Convinced.”

2. “Beware of Men Crushing Silk Scarves in Close Proximity to Your Jugular. Especially When they Sport Porn Staches”**

3. “Sheena Easton Takes a Pool Boy”

4. “What? The Pool Boy Traveled Back in Time and Became a Laird!”

** alt. title for #2: “See That Santa with the Head Beard and Eyebrows of Rage? I’m Pretty Sure He is Trying to Kill You.”

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Happy Weekend!

*with apologies to Carolyn Crane, whose summer post on her absence at RWA 2009 inspired this one

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