I used that yesterday and bought yet more research books to add to my too-full bookcases. I already have all her novels - and they’re all so wonderful.

-Michelle

Leslie, you’re not only talented and charming, but BLOND. So I think you’re doing just fine.

Nice to see you, Janelle! I hope your husband recovers from that surgery soon. Being laid up is not good for one’s tempter.

Congratulations, catslady! There are cats in just about all my books, fwiw.

Thanks for inviting me to the jungle! I’ve truly had fun with this.

G’night, all–

Mary Jo

CATSLADY! Message # 37. You’re the winner of Mary Jo’s giveaway today. Please drop me a line at author@lesliekelly.com with your snail mail addy and I’ll forward it to Mary Jo so she can get your prize out to you.

Once again, BIG HUGE THANKS to Mary Jo Putney! You’re wonderful and charming and I’d really love to be you when I grow up. Or, at least to be as talented, and nice as you!!

But I did want to stop by and give you a warm (and belated) welcome to the jungle. You’re one of those authors who I admire and enjoy so much — I feel like such a “fan”!

Ev, A KISS OF FATE is available now. (It came out a couple of years ago.) A DISTANT MAGIC is the one that will be out in mid-July. The middle book of the trilogy is STOLEN MAGIC, also available now. As is The Marriage Spell. But all are books with magical elements, which I enjoy writing.

Julie, John’s Uncle Guido is a metaphor, not a real uncle. He says if he really wants to see knees broken, he’d call his Sicilian cousin, who isn’t a Guido. The metaphor works very nicely, though!

Mary Jo

I have looked at the Sony Reader which we have in the store. I just don’t think that there are enough of what I read for me to buy it. Yet. And I get a good discount too.

I tend to borrow audios from the library and put them on my ipod which is defiantely much smaller.

I have to go pack. And clean out the bathrooms. We are having major work done on the ceilings in both of them, and have them painted and some electrical work while we are gone. At least I won’t have to be here for it!!

Julie, you have an Uncle Guido, too? My SO, who is half Italian, is always threatening to call his Uncle Guido when publishing isn’t nice to me.

Pat, you are a role model for writing sex in a small town!

Mary Jo, having fun monkeying around!