It has not ebbed. Even though the stories are almost paint-by-numbers, I still love me some Anne Stuart. Because, let’s face it, nobody writes as mean alphas as she does (am I right, Cindy?).

I’m about to finish Reckless, and I am loving it. This heroine, actually, has more of a backbone than some of Stuart’s heroines.

Oh, le sigh. Love Anne Stuart. Just love her.

( I *really* love her books where you’re not sure until the very end if he’s going to end up with her or kill her, but Reckless isn’t that kind of book. In fact, I love those books so much I’d like to reread them, even though I never reread. Probably because I used to reread all the time when my options were fewer. Hence my obsessive rereading of Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Three Musketeers, Tom Jones, Black Stallion and Little House books when I was young).

If you had the time, what book would you pick up to reread right now? I think I’d get Anne Stuart’s Nightfall.

Megan

PS: That said, I will never reread The Widow, Shadows At Sunset, Silver Falls or the last Ice book, which I didn’t even finish reading.

While at the NJRWA Conference (oh . . . did I mention I went enough? Geez, you’d think I never got out. Oh. Right.), I attended Eileen Dreyer’s Workshop on creating fabulous first and last lines. Usually, I attend workshops, take notes, and then promptly forget everything that made me go ‘aha!’ while in the workshop.

But this one–man, she is so smart, and so on my writing wavelength, I came home and rewrote the first line of Road To Passion. And I am actually going to consult my notes as I try to finish this puppy. I gave myself a deadline of October 31, but I am not sure I can make it. But a goal is a lovely thing to have.

And because of the workshop, I pulled Eileen’s book Head Games from the shelf, and am LOVING IT. She is fantastic, and I am thrilled I have The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes (written with Jenny Crusie and Anne Stuart, yow) still on my shelf.

The Risky Regencies has posted a Carla Kelly interview (done by moi); commenters to the post are entered to win one of two copies of her latest book, Beau Crusoe.

Kelly, along with Loretta Chase, Anne Stuart and Mary Balogh, is one of my favorite, favorite authors.