Hottest Toy

Judy Jarvie has been blogging about the pressure on parents to find THE TOY for their child for Christmas.*

In a turn of serendipity I have just read Jenny Crusie's novella in the compilation ' SANTA BABY'.

'Trudy Maxwell goes looking for the Hot Toy of 2006 on Christmas Eve to keep her nephew's faith in Santa Claus and life in general, and runs into toy hijackers, the CIA, Chinese spies, and the lit professor who dumped her after three dates. Then the shooting starts.'

For an extract of the first chapter -http://www.jennycrusie.com/excerpt/ht_excerpt.php

Highly recommended. And a masterclass on how to cram what the reader needs to know to set up the story before the heroine meets her hero. Brilliant.

And apologies to all parents who are now going through the pain, but is this not just another part of our current cultural Zeitgeist?
And therefore, of course, all food for the writer's imagination?
Happy shopping.


* http://judyj.blogspot.com/

What's playing on my YouTube right now? SugarBabes http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LHaE_9lkwg4&feature=related

The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes

Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart have created something amazing - one novel about three sisters living in the same house, where each writer worked on the romance for an individual sister, then collaborated to create one book.

Ladies, I am in awe.

Three wonderful female quirky characters, three gorgeous but very different heroes, and three storylines where you could believe that these couples could fall in love over the space of a weekend.

The Magic is in colour. The love scenes are hot. The HEA guaranteed.

I bought it Friday and have read it twice.

Yes, I know I should have been writing, but it was the Bank Holiday and the sun was shining [ Ray-Anne slinks off with her head down feeling pathetic, but has written 4000 words in last two days as a feeble excuse].

Go here for the Little Black Dress Site and an extract: http://www.littleblackdressbooks.com/miss-fortunes.html

Go here for the Blog the three writers created during the writing of this book - which is remarkable: http://www.unfortunatemissfortunes.com/homepage.php

What's playing on my YouTube right now? Glenn Gould playing Bach Partita no 6. part 1. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3atJSmgTM&feature=PlayList&p=FCACC9D977029D8F&index=4