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sallysaurus

My favorite books have a little magic, a little romance and a lot of hope. Humor is a plus. My dream is to publish novels that appeal to readers like me, readers who love authors like Jonathan Carroll, Spider Robinson, Susan Cooper and Neil Gaiman.
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  • TheGildedPen

    thegildedpen says

    Now is your chance to help decide which two titles will be picked as The Gilded Pen Book Club's reads for July and win a copy of either DUCHESS BY NIGHT by Eloisa James or AFTER THE KISS by Suzanne Enoch!

    Just check out the post on our club page to enter!
    (http://www.shelfari.com/groups/11253/about)

    Happy reading,
    Amber
    thegildedpen.com

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • ElizabethHoyt

    elizabethhoyt says

    Hope you like TO TASTE TEMPTATION!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • alma

    alma says

    Hello Sallysaurus... I know this is an overdue reply to your note. But just the same, I'd like to thank you for visiting my site and taking time to look at my shelf. I really appreciate your comment. Have a wonderful and purposeful day!
    Alma

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Urchild

    urchild says

    Thank you, i hope you see something on my shelf that you would like to read. Happy reading!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    Hello, Sallysaurus,
    Happy New Year to you, too, and thank you for the note. You ask about Laurel Bradley's A Wish In Time. I liked Laurel's sympathetic treatment of infertility, and also the fact (which is quite beside the point as far as a recommendation is concerned) that she was donating all her November royalties to an infertility related charity.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Dr. Tami Brady

    dr. tami brady says

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Dr. Tami Brady

    dr. tami brady says

    You've got some interesting books that I'll have to check out. Thanks for adding me as a friend.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    Dear Sallysaurus,

    Your very kind message made my day! Thank you so very much.

    So much to answer. Please forgive me, I'm too much of a dinosaur to have two windows open at once.

    Let's see. I have to confess, I have *not* quite finished with Rhett's story. It turns out, it might be the heroine's story, and she has a lot to say, especially about retractable male genitalia ... and it is not all good. Also, she has decided to be very awkward about revealing a secret that would instantly win her the hero's reluctant sympathy.

    It's not a TSTL situation, though.

    My publisher is all set for a September release. They asked me for cover info just today.

    You could attribute Djetth's innate decency to the fact that he was educated on Earth!

    The psychic grannies really set the cat among the pigeons where Rhett is concerned.

    Gotta go write a fight!
    Best wishes,
    Rowena

    Hi Rowena. I just finished reading INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL. What fun to see Djeth and Marsh warily dance around one another on that island. (How in heck did Djeth turn out to be such a decent guy in that fantastically sexist culture? Amazing.) The resulting genealogy made my head hurt. If only those Djinn guys could keep it in their pants, things would be simpler. But then I guess the psychic grannies wouldn't have had such strong motivation for their dangerous cat-and-mousing, huh. So you're done with 'Rhett's story? When's it due out?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • fikshun

    fikshun says

    Hi, sallysaurus. Coming of Age in the Milky Way was pretty good. It's basically a walk through the history of astronomy. I would say that, behind Carl Sagan, Timothy Ferris is perhaps the best at conveying the ineffable wonder of looking up at the sky on a clear night. This is one of his better books. This Is Your Brain on Music, on the other hand, was a bit of a disappointment. The radio interview with the author managed to convey most of the interesting subject matter of the book. You can listen to the segment here: http://www.kpbs.org/radio/these_days;id=7355

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    I hope we are evolving past the current limits; but that isn't to say that by going past the old limits, there aren't now NEW limits.

    History teaches us that, yes, there are always limits, but where history repeats is when people don't pay attention to the limits that we know to be there...or maybe they pretend that there aren't any limits at all.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    You can go on & on, that's really all right by me. What you speak of is basic democracy, so what I wonder is what are the limits to the technological revolution (all systems and revolutions have their limits. Yes?) Limits leave a segment of any population ambivalent, and the results are always ambivalent. Tag, your it.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    Couldn't help but catch your notes on digital literacy and how it's changing what we do and the way we do it...writing, rocking, talking. Ambiguous and ambivalent at best. True?

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Raytownsal

    raytownsal says

    Welcome to Seekers, Sallysaurus. I love your name! Hope you enjoy our group. - Sally

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • saguaro

    saguaro says

    Thanks, Sallysaurus, for the tip about Alain de Botton.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Gail Dayton

    gail dayton says

    Ack! Ten-year-olds reading my books? I told my son to tell his friends that they couldn't read them unless they were shaving... The next book should hit the bookstores sometime this next week. They've been shipped from the printers...

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    Thank you. To fully appreciate Rhett (the hero) you should read the other books, but it is not absolutely necessary.

    Best,
    Rowena

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ElizabethHoyt

    elizabethhoyt says

    Glad you liked THE RAVEN PRINCE and Jock the dog! And a vacation home would be very nice, if unlikely. LOL!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rowena Cherry

    rowena cherry says

    “I might touch myself,” she offered.
    “Where? How?” he demanded.
    “I might run my hands down my sides, if you let go of my arm.”
    “Masturbation is not like yawning, my dear.”
    Electra blinked at him. “I do not understand you!”
    “When an ordinary being without special powers sees another person yawn, the yawn is contagious. One yawn sets off a spontaneous and involuntary chain reaction of others’ yawns. If you run your hands down your sides, I will not necessarily be unable to stop myself from running my own hands down my own sides. Real men… and gods… don’t do that. Try again.”
    “I might cup my breasts.” The instant she made the offer, she saw his eyes light up with laughter –or lust—and she knew she’d made another bad choice.
    “Now, why would you do that?” he purred.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • MJRose

    mjrose says

    Sally, Thanks so so so much for your enthusiasm about my book[ The Reincarnationist.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )


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