Archive for January, 2009

Coming soon!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009


I’m back!

Refreshed, revived — and ready to report that my website is undergoing a major revamp and should be up and ready to go February 1st.

Heather at WeWriteRomance has taken the bits and pieces that were there from an earlier design that got dropped due to circumstances beyond that earlier designer’s control, and has done miracles with them. She’s got a great grasp of visuals (so not like me!) and can actually translate my babbling and gibberish into things that look great on the page (far better than I envision them, to tell the truth).

I’ve been seeing some of the pages this past week, and while they won’t all go up on February 1st, you should get a flavor of them then. The blog format will eventually reflect that, too, but it may not happen at once. So while we are in transition, bear with us.

Having a new improved website is like spring cleaning — only better. (I wonder if Heather would come and do the same to my house. Probably not. Sigh.)

Anyway, Heather is fabulous, and I have to thank Kate Walker for passing her name along — and of course, to thank Heather for being willing to jump into the breach and whip things into shape.

Eventually all the pages should be back and many of the ones that never made it into the revamp of a year ago will actually reappear if not instantly, then over the next few weeks.

I also need to thank PJ for filling in for me this past couple of weeks while I had a bit of a kick-back-and-relax time. It was much appreciated. But that’s the sort of guy he is. He stepped up and solved Ally’s problem ten years ago. He solved mine this month.

So thanks, PJ. Hope you and Ally have a great time in Hawaii. Keep us posted on the new little Antonides. Let us know when he/she arrives!

O’Kate has come back from O’Dublin and sent me the name of the winner of Santos’s share of the Here Come The Grooms contest.

She’ll be announcing it on her website tomorrow, I think. And then I can announce it here. We’re so glad to have had so many participants.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the questions.

We’re looking forward to the 4th annual Here Come The Grooms contest next year. We love to do it together and, as Kate said earlier today, “I always look forward to hearing the groooms’ opinions of things.” Amen to that.

We Have A Winner!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009


Hi. PJ here.

We have a winner here — Karen from North Carolina is the winner of my third of the Here Come the Grooms contest this year!

Her book (MY book!) is already on its way to her. Hope you enjoy it, Karen.

Jago has written to say that Rachel in New Zealand has won his third of the contest, and her book has gone out today also.

Santos is incommunicado right now as Kate and her spouse and he and his new bride have gone off to Dublin (what is it with Santos that he’s taking his writer on his honeymoon? Or isn’t it the honeymoon? Maybe not. I’m sure Kate will tell Anne to find her book and let me read it so I’ll know!)

As soon as they all get back from Dublin, we’ll have Santos’s winner to post as well.

Congratulations to Karen and to Rachel. And many thanks to everyone who took the time to find out the answers and enter the contest. We were really glad to see so many people turning out to do it!

Stay tuned because Liz and Kate and Anne are already talking about next year’s contest. Should be interesting. Anne said maybe Christo would be up for it. All I know is, it won’t be me. I’m going to be on my way to Hawaii for a nice winter break with Ally and the new person in our lives.

How old do you think he or she will have to be before I can get him/her on a surfboard?

Grooms Contest — Last Day

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009


Well, Anne has dropped the ball and can’t tell you about Santos (that’s him over there on the left) personally because she can’t find his book.

This will give you some idea of the state of her office (CHAOS!), and she sends apologies to The Man Himself because she remembers hearing about his story as Kate was writing it (and drooling over him, she says, which I find disgusting, but what can I say?)

Anyway, she will find it, she assures me, and write about it while it is still on the shelves (which it will be until late February). So if you don’t win a copy, don’t despair. You can go buy one — and Kate will be pleased.

So will Santos, provided he can be distracted from the right sister who is now his bride!

Today, in case you haven’t noticed — is January 21st. The last day to enter the 3rd annual Here Come The Grooms Contest.

This means that Anne will probably snatch the blog back and send me on my way (not a hardship, though I’ve enjoyed being here, but I’ll have more time to spend with Ally when I’m not writing blogs) — and we’re going to celebrate the news of a prospective little Antonides coming along in a few months (Yiayia will be over the moon — she likes the notion of great-grandchildren, and the more the better. But mine will be the best looking, she tells me!).

So, details below for entering if you haven’t already done so.

There are three questions and to win you have to answer all the questions and email your answers to Anne, to Kate and to Liz. Each of them will pick a winner and that winner will get a copy of each of the these books.

Here are the questions:

1. PJ left New York after he graduated from high school. Where did he go?
2. Who was Santos supposed to be marrying?
3. What scent did Jago recognise?


You’ll find the answers in excerpt on Anne’s, Kate’s and Liz’s websites and you’ve got until January 21 to send in your answers.

Got it? You’ll find “contact me” links on Kate’s, Liz’s and Anne’s websites, too. Use those to email them– all three of them with all three answers, don’t forget. Good luck!

I get to come back and announce the winners, so you haven’t totally got rid of me. Ally might come, too. Go for it.