Sylvia Day

Love to have you! (and your beautiful photos! ) Have at it! Sounds like fun. :bounce: Give me a cool Canadian moniker and we can set you guys up with your own forum here!

Now where's the fun in that? :drunken: Looks like we'll have to go to Alton, where the police force is temporarily closed for business while the city repaves a bike path. (Nuttiest thing I've heard in a long time. :roll: )

Okay, I just finished Devil Takes a Bride Ms. Foley has a way with description that transported me into the novel. The hero, Devlin, Lord Strathmore, is lucious and tortured and madly in love with the spunky heroine. You root for the couple throughout the entire novel and wish for their happiness. There's a bit of melodrama going on with his tortured past but the love story is so poignant (the hero cries in several scenes and yet remains unquestionably strong) that it makes the entire journey worth it. This was my first book by Gaelen Foley, but it won't be my last!

Nice to have you around, Wendi!

Definitely! I'll share when I come over! :study:

Great idea, Sasha! We could have a lot of fun with it and fill a hole in the market that is empty... more in an e-mail. :sunny:

Hi Peter! Nice to meet you, glad you joined us! Did you find the board through my blog RSS? I agree about the PDA. I just have an old-fashioned e-bookman, but I love it! I buy e-books all the time. I love the convenience and the no waiting! (Anyone who knows me will tell you I have no patience whatsoever!) I see you're in the UK. Lucky. I hope to visit someday soon. I know more about English history than I do American (and we have so much less! )

You and me both! Good luck to you! If I read correctly, last year three contestants won contracts. Wouldn't that be fun if you, Ireland, and I all won and ended up in an anthology together? :cheers: A girl can dream... lol!

Excerpt from Sylvia's Blog ~ 7/16/04 I'm done with writing contests (except for the Golden Heart and the RITA, of course! ). Really. I've done very well, I think. Most of my excerpts posted on my website have judge's comments that were very encouraging. But aside from the pats on the back I don't get near enough out of them to waste my money on them. The feedback is minimal, good or bad, and the process is so subjective. One judge will give an almost perfect score and praise certain parts. Another judge will give a mediocre score and criticise the same parts the other judge loved. How can you get anything out of that? It would be so much simpler if the scores were even vaguely similar so that you could tell what to work on. :scratch: For example: Judge A - "Characterization 10 out of 10. Your characters are great. Love {the heroine}. Extremely well developed." Judge B - "Characterization 6 out of 10. I have trouble getting to know your heroine..." huh? Anyone enter any writing contests? What did you think? "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs." ~ Christopher Hampton

Definitely send in what you have. I had to send in a copy of the letter from the agent requesting the full ms and also a copy of the SASP verifying receipt. I had to save my entire ms on disk and mail it in with the PRO application. I didn't think about getting the pin too much until recently (knowing I already qualified for it took the pressure off) but then I read the last RWR (July 2004) and they were talking about the Golden Heart in the article, The Golden Heart: Not for the Fainthearted. Linda Hill, a GH finalist in 1991, said, "I would only have experienced, trained judges for the Golden Heart. Right now any member can judge. What's their experience? How long have they been writing? Have they ever completed a full manuscript? Do they have a PRO pin?" AH HA! Then the pressure was on. Up until that point I had considered PRO Recognition something given for my own personal enjoyment. Suddenly I realized perhaps it was also a symbol of my commitment to writing and getting sold. I mailed out my application and required documents a few days later. You deserve the pin! Send in your stuff and get it. The application is online if you need it. As for Lucien's Gamble. It is presently at Red Sage, after being solicited from a partial. They request an exclusive read so I can only wait for the final word on it. (Can I say that patience in not one of my virtues? :oops: ) The editor is on vacation now. Hopefully, I'll hear from them soon! Lucien Remington is one of my favorite characters and I really like his story (if I say so myself!) I keep my fingers crossed that it will appear in print soon. I get a lot of mail about that story!

Received my pin today. Nice surprise in the mailbox. :lol:

Procrastinate here as much as you like! It'll be nice having you around!

I received my acceptance in RWA's PRO Recognition program today! For those of you unfamiliar with PRO it is: "The RWA PRO Committee welcomes RWA members who have completed at least one manuscript and submitted it to a literary agent or publisher and members who are published by a non-RWA recognized publisher." I should have applied months ago when I sent out my first solicited manuscript but I kept putting it off. I'm such a procrastinator sometimes!

Jim Decker - Blood and Kisses - Angela Knight Lord Eric De Gray - Promises - Lisa Kleypas Rhett Butler - Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Jack Devlin - Suddenly You - Lisa Kleypas Ruark Beauchamp - Shanna - Kathleen E. Woodiwiss John McKenna - Again The Magic - Lisa Kleypas Remington Carr - The Last Bachelor - Betina Krahn Alec Falkner - Forever My Love - Lisa Kleypas Adrian Burchard - The Charmer - Madeline Hunter Lucien Balfour - Reforming a Rake - Suzanne Enoch Joshua Moore - Slightly Scandalous - Mary Balogh Michael Connors - Life Without Raine - Michele Bardsley Christopher Antoli - The Fifth Favor - Shelby Reed

I thought I'd try out a message board and see how many of you I can get to know! I think it'll be a lot of fun and hopefully make for some good conversation! **UPDATE for AOL Users** I've been told that some AOL users have trouble seeing the Visual Confirmation code when registering. I believe this is due to the AOL browser. I recommend opening Internet Explorer to register. Afterwards, you can access and post to the board through AOL. If this sounds like too much trouble just e-mail me at Sylvia@SylviaDay.com and I'll register for you. Thank you for your interest! See you on the board! :smt024