Crossover moments...

[Brendan Carroll]

Brendan. I know, but I didn't want to sound like I was promoting the book.
Edward C. Patterson

Thanks for the info.  I can't wait to get started on some of these books.  It seems I never have time to read since I do have a full time job in addition to everything else and I do love reading a good book.  Yours sounds fascinating and I know I will eventually get hold of it.  Brendan... so time travel, eh?  Sounds like my kind of story.

[Meredith Sinclair]

I'm so glad that books (and the Kindle) aren't scratch-and-sniff. 

I'm reading The Jade Owl. 

And I don't like the scent of lavender. 

I can't smell it even though I have a huge lavender bush by my mailbox. It does not really smell too strong just standing near it. I have low blood pressure, like (no HIPA laws hers huh? ) 102/65 normally.... so since it LOWERS your BP I get all weak and feel faint... Crazy too, cause I WANT to smell it!  & & I like the color too, it's among my favorite most colors....

[Susan in VA]

I have a huge lavender bush by my mailbox. It does not really smell too strong

You're right; the plants themselves have a mild scent, but the stuff that gets made out of them...  <bleh>

To attempt to bring the scent-motif back to crossovers:  many years ago I read Funny Girl and Funny Lady, and though neither was particularly memorable, I thought for years that yellow roses were just the most romantic flower ever, far more so than traditional red ones, and over time those people who might have been inclined to give me flowers caught on and I ended up with yellow roses just like Fanny Brice.       Oh, and here's another tie-in to lavender  --  the swoon-inducing (but straight) guy was called Nick in those books, too!   

[Meredith Sinclair]

You're right; the plants themselves have a mild scent, but the stuff that gets made out of them...  <bleh>

To attempt to bring the scent-motif back to crossovers:  many years ago I read Funny Girl and Funny Lady, and though neither was particularly memorable, I thought for years that yellow roses were just the most romantic flower ever, far more so than traditional red ones, and over time those people who might have been inclined to give me flowers caught on and I ended up with yellow roses just like Fanny Brice.       Oh, and here's another tie-in to lavender  --  the swoon-inducing (but straight) guy was called Nick in those books, too!   

Like the Yellow Rose of Texas.... THat's ME!!!!! How did you know? They are romantic... I don't like red ones either I rather love Tiffany ones... what book was that where the guy brings a rose to his blind date, so she would know it was him?

[Susan in VA]

what book was that where the guy brings a rose to his blind date, so she would know it was him?

I have no idea, but it sounds like something that could happen on half the blind dates in real life. 

Tiffanys are nice, but I prefer the warm orange-y ones to cool pinks.  (We should have a favorite flowers thread.) 

(Maybe we should have a blind-dates-from-hell thread too.) 

[geoffthomas]

Hm, where's that Grammar Pet Peeves thread when I need it...

Logic (mine, anyway) dictates perfect sobriety when dealing with truculent Zallans.

CK

I'm confused.  I am more than halfway through Wysard and I don't remember coming across any truculent Zallans much less sinning wine.  Will I yet come across a truculent Zallan?  And If so will I feel like it is real?
Just sayin......(well askin......actually).

[geoffthomas]

Reminds me of my own embarrassing Heinlein moment.  I forget now whether it's Friday or maybe Time (some of them kind of blend together in my mind, not having re-read them in ten years), but in one of those there's the woman with the artist husband who paints her body as a canvas.  At one point she's painted half red and half black, down the middle from the top of the head, with one leg and one arm red, etc.

Now you see you could have just left it hang here.  'cause you started with the Reminds me... and got to the painted half and half down the middle......made a wonderful image.   What with that innocent little avatar and all.
Just sayin...... (giggle, snark, leer)

[Susan in VA]

Geoff, you're allowed to pretend that the rest of the post wasn't there.  Imagination is a good thing.   

[Brendan Carroll]

Like the Yellow Rose of Texas.... THat's ME!!!!! How did you know? They are romantic... I don't like red ones either I rather love Tiffany ones... what book was that where the guy brings a rose to his blind date, so she would know it was him?

That wasn't a book, Miss Merry, that was me.    I thought I was going on a "blind date" in the usual sense of the term "blind date".  I didn't know that my date was actually blind, but then I should have known... it was the only way I could get a date with her to start with.  Thank the stars that she was blind then and still is blind to my many, many short-comings.  Unlike some, she is always willing to forgive my 'glaring blunders' and 'look' beyond the superficiality of typos. For all those who might think me politically incorrect and begin chastising me right away... she's not blind in the literal sense, but figuratively because she practices the little known art of altruistic love.  She loves me in spite of my faults.  As for the red roses... I still like the blood red ones best, but I like to combine them with deep yellow ones for a brilliant contrast.  I'm still a little confused about a flower that can have two different colors inside the same flower, but by far my most favorite-favorite rose is the light pink ones that look almost white.  Reminds me of the blush on a newborn baby's cheeks.

[Carolyn Kephart]

Will I yet come across a truculent Zallan?

Oh yes indeed...in Volume Two! In the meantime, you'll have to put up with Lord Michael Essern, who's truculent enough for an army of Zallans.

Thanks for reading me, Geoff.

CK

[geoffthomas]

Oh yes indeed...in Volume Two! In the meantime, you'll have to put up with Lord Michael Essern, who's truculent enough for an army of Zallans.

Thanks for reading me, Geoff.

CK

I am at 61% and already I don't like Michael. Besides he isn't washing.
By the way Carolyn. In the What are you reading thread I mentioned that I had started this book.  Only negative comment I would make is that the very beginning of the book ........... I hate to say this ...... doesn't grab one.  If you read past (and it doesn't take long) you get sucked in.  I will re-read the beginning and see if I still feel that way now that I am a fan.  I always want my authors to write perfect books.  Not so much for me, 'cause I will usually keep going, but for their eventual success. And yeah, I guess I should cement my future by going back to Amazon and  purchasing the second book now.
Just sayin.......and readin.....

[Carolyn Kephart]

By the way Carolyn. In the What are you reading thread I mentioned that I had started this book.

I haven't checked that thread in a while! Will give it a look.

 Only negative comment I would make is that the very beginning of the book ........... I hate to say this ...... doesn't grab one.

No offense taken whatsoever. Every reader's experience is unique.

If you read past (and it doesn't take long) you get sucked in.

I was hoping you'd say that. 

I will re-read the beginning and see if I still feel that way now that I am a fan.

As I told another of my readers here, I always gulp a book at first and then go back to savor it.

I always want my authors to write perfect books.

Um...good luck with that! Seriously, I've yet to find a 'perfect' book, although I'll always keep striving to write one.

And yeah, I guess I should cement my future by going back to Amazon and  purchasing the second book now.

Lord Brother has a lot more 'guy-style' action and a very different flavor, so I'm told. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Thanks and good wishes,

CK

[MichaelS]

I haven't checked that thread in a while! Will give it a look. :)No offense taken whatsoever. Every reader's experience is unique.I was hoping you'd say that. :PAs I told another of my readers here, I always gulp a book at first and then go back to savor it.Um...good luck with that! Seriously, I've yet to find a 'perfect' book, although I'll always keep striving to write one.Lord Brother has a lot more 'guy-style' action and a very different flavor, so I'm told. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Thanks and good wishes,

CK

What exactly is a cross-over moment? I did not quite get this is it a girl thing?

[Brendan Carroll]

What exactly is a cross-over moment? I did not quite get this is it a girl thing?

Well, Michael, my man, you see this is a very deep, spiritual form of intuitive experience that comes when an author (that be me ) has a sudden epiphanous moment wherein the author (that be me again ) suddenly comes into touch with one of his (or her depending upon the gender of the author, of course ) characters or some facet (that's facet ) of the storyline in some way that deeply touches the very roots of our (that be authors ) psyche (that be a Greek goddess ).  In other words, no, it it's not a girl thing exclusively. LOL

[Susan in VA]

Geez, Brendan, could you possibly make it any more confusing for the poor guy??

Michael, I think if you read this thread all the way from the beginning it will become clearer.....  and at least some of us are not interpreting such moments as limited only to authors, but to anyone who has experienced a moment in which a literary character and real life seem to merge in some way.

[Brendan Carroll]

Geez, Brendan, could you possibly make it any more confusing for the poor guy??

Heeey... Michael's not confused, are you, Mikey?  But in answer to your question... yes, I could have been much more confusing.  It's a guy thing!  LOL.

[Susan in VA]

Heeey... Michael's not confused, are you, Mikey?  But in answer to your question... yes, I could have been much more confusing.  It's a guy thing!  LOL.

Uh....  yeah, I'll grant you that guys can sometimes be really confusing.   

[Brendan Carroll]

Uh....  yeah, I'll grant you that guys can sometimes be really confusing.   

Oh, really?  Well here's a new limerick for you... oh, wait!  This is Cross-0ver moments  , I'd better crossover to the other thread.