Am really looking forward to your upcoming book. As for ebooks, sorry–for me I need the feel of a real, hold-it-in-your-hand book.

And yep, we’re all a bit book-obsessive! But such a wonderful group we are, aren’t we!?

So SO glad to be picking up your most recent titles, and I think you mentioned that you’ve got more coming out later this year, right? Can’t wait!!

I’m a book addict–I use books for all the reasons you listed, and depending on the book, I have done all-nighters (or close to it). (Your books tend to be can’t-put-down variety–I often start one thinking I’ll just take a quick peek, and then I’m furious at the interruptions that make me put it down–dinner, putting the kids to bed… ;)) No e-reader yet, but maybe soon Reading is definitely a necessity!

And I’m SO so excited because I just won your books from Brenda’s auction–woohoo!!

Hi everyone. So sorry for the long delay in posting back. I’ve been having intermittent problems accessing the blog for some reason. Apart from cursing and making angry animal noises at my computer, I am fairly hopeless on this front so I have asked the wonderful Tawny to post this on my behalf so you don’t think I am ignoring you! I am not, I assure you – I am getting email telling me what you’ve all posted, I just can’t respond. Pretty much a chatterbox’s version of hell. So, here, in order, are my responses to all of you who were kind enough to post:

Lauren, the book I remember utterly immersing myself in as a teenager was “The Lord of the Rings”. I would dive in and start reading and not come up again for another week or two. Completely useless to everyone during that time, my head off in the clouds. You know – big confession – I have never read “Gone with the Wind”. This is close to sacrilege, isn’t it? Maybe I should hunt down a copy….

Shelly, ta for the e-book advice. You will be hearing from me! I was a big Hardy Boy fan, too. And oh my goodness how I loved the TV show. Bless those casting agents, that’s all I can say. Parker Stevenson and Sean Cassidy. Inspired!!!!

Candace, I, too, have been on a book binge the last few weeks. A couple of Molly O’Keefes (Super romance author, lovely!), the new Mary Balogh(sigh), the new Sherry Thomas(divine), and am just cracking the spine on the latest Rachel Gibson. It’s been a good week!!!! Now. I just have to write my chapters for the week and finish a script for the TV show I write for in between all this “refilling the well”. Hmmm….

Karin, I’m a pretty fast reader, too, but I have often wondered about super fast speed reading. My understanding is that you scan the page all at once and kind of take it all in. This worries me with romance novels – does that mean you skip over the sad bits and move onto the okay bits really quickly? Kind of like you’re reading on fast forward? I don’t know, but I would love to ask a speed reader how the pace of their reading affects their emotional reaction to the story. Which, you know, is a lot of the reason why I have my bum in the seat and the book in my hand in the first place…

Hey there Sayuri! I love your non-spine-cracking quirk. Confession: I am a book abuser. I can feel you cringing from across the globe as I write this. My books are for reading and it shows – creases, curly bits, even (God forbid!) swollen pages from being read in a steamy bath. Having said that, when I borrow a friend’s book I am very, very careful not to crack the spine or put a crease in the cover if they haven’t. I once lent someone my autographed copy of Ben Elton’s “Stark” and it came back looking as though it had been through a washing machine. Not happy. I clearly need to investigate this e-book thing more, though. As for my latest release, it’s out in November, and it’s a Super Romance – “Home for the Holidays”. And then I think my next Blaze is February 2010, “Her Secret Fling”. Ta for your lovely support, as always.

Quick thing about -readers. they are addictive and once you make the transition, you won’t go back.! LOL I love my Sony Reader so much it’s bordering on perverse.
Plus, you can buy MOST books internationally from Fictionwise and BooksonBoard etc. And if I can’t and it’s a book I have to have, then I paypal my US friend the money and she buys for it for me then I go into the account and download it! I have no shame. I had to do that with the new Elizabeth Hoyt. I was almost insane with rage at the thought that I couldn’t get it on e-book! I had a hulk moment.

I’m on a mission (partly inspired by this blog) to read every Blaze! I was a late on the bandwagon so have a bit of catching up to do. I’m just finishing STephanie Tyler’s ‘Risking It All’ which I am enjoying immesely!

As for reading quirks…I have a few..does every one else smell thier books? I have to smell a new book the first time I crack it open (When it’s not an e-book obvs.) Also, I hate cracking the spine on a book. I will give it away or sell it and buy a new one if that happens, which is another reason why I don’t loan books to anyone who hasn’t been pre-approved! I still have paperback terry Pratchett books I bought 15 years ago that are pristine despite having multiple reads. Yes, anal is my middle name.

I have always been a reader. I loved (and still do even though she is no longer fashionable) Enid Blyton. She gave me a love and understanding of nature and how to foil various smugglers and general ne’er-do-wells.

I graduated to Stephen King and Dean Koontz in my teenage years and then kinda slipped sideways nto Sci-fi and fantasy where I still live today. Paranormal romance led me to romance proper and I am a happy as a pig in …well you know. Especially when I have a new Sarah mayberry to read! When is the next one out again Sarah?