Hello, Nora!

Sorry I can't make it to TTP this weekend, but you know, the whole thing don't make for good travelin'. My question for you is, can you do the Hustle?

So, Nora,

Would you please share a little more about this David Duchovney/Aruba fantasy?

ani

Nora,
How did Stace tell you that she was pregnant? I'm just curious! Did she come out and say it, or do something creative
I'm always wondering how to tell my husband once that time comes. It will sure be interesting!

Jennifer

Nope, no premonition, just wishful thinking. Shows that wishes can come true.

We were more than ready for you guys! So great to see all of you, but there's never enough time to hang out.

Nora

Maybe somebody could open a Kind Store. You know, sort of kind us. Maybe you should do it. The Sort and Plucked Place. This could be a window of opportunity.

What Kayla goes for depends on her mood. Sometimes a girl just wants to shop so she heads for the discarded catalogue box. Sometimes she need to do a little housekeeping, so she goes for the plastics cupboard. If it's just play, she heads for her room and the toy box.

Chinchillas are very cute, especially in jackets.

I do have a mink coat bought, jeez, about fifteen years ago.

Three books--much too tough. I'd trade them for a laptop and a lifetime supply of batteries so I could write my own.

I believe I can do the Hustle, but have always found specific dances too regimented. Rather just boogie.

David Duchovney. Aruba. What explanation is needed?

Stacie and Dan came up to see us--with a positive pregnancy stick. But Nana already had her suspicions due to expectant mother's queasiness the day before.

Nora

Good morning Nora! Here's my stoooooopid question: Was this me in a past life?

Me now or another

Me then

The painting is Johanne Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring".

Good Morning Nora:

Have you ever seen a Iceberg???
I live in a part of the world where this is commonplace in the spring of the year.
Now of course enterprising Newfoundlanders chip off pieces of icebergs and used for bottled water and used in vodka (iceberg vodka) as well as taking tourists out for usual iceberg and whale excursions!!!



:gmorning: :gmorning: :gmorning: :gmorning:

Hi, Nora!

I was hanging out with my young niece last week, and eating way too much Laffy Taffy. I was wondering, what's your favorite silly "kid" joke? (as in, knock-knock jokes, bad puns, yadda yadda)

Diane :whymewhyme:

My SQ for the day

Nora, have you ever been abducted?? (example: by kidnappers wanting ransom, by aliens wanting a sample, by the hubby for a romantic getaway)

Definitely looks like you wore pearl earrings and a secret smile in a past life--which is much better than wearing Munch's Scream.

I haven't seen an iceburg, except in pictures and in movies. It must be amazing--and would be a hell of a cooler in a vodka tonic.

I always liked the knock-knocks and the silly riddles. Like what's black and white and red all over=an embarrassed zebra. Or, to my mind, a blood-splattered newspaper.

Have not, to date, been abducted by anyone, and hope to continue my record.

Nora

Sitting here craving Debs sinful brownies--do you have any left? :luvu: :luvu: :luvu:

Hi Nora,
This is my first stoopid question, and it's a doozie. I belong to a list serve where we discuss the public's perception of romance novels. One of the group pointed out to a disdainful friend "You like Nora Roberts, and she writes romance." to which the reply was "She is a good author, so she can't write romance." Now I am the first to say some of your single titles are more suspence with a good romance included, while others are overtly romance novels. I label the The In Deaths as futuristic police novels with a strong romantic element. But all keep to the traditional HEA ending from romance and include a strong romantic relationship essential to the storyline. My question is how would you reply to the assertion that because you are a "good author" what you write cannot be called romance?

Angela B

Hello Nora,

My husband and I are expecting our first child in April. We've been spending the last couple of months doing the baby name thing. One of the boy names we like is Mac and our last name is Jackson so he would be Mac Jackson. When I mentioned this name to someone they said "Jees that sounds like a character in a romance novel." Now I love romance novels so I don't really think that's a bad thing and Mac is sort of a family name but some people are put off by the whole rhyming thing. So my question is .... what do you think of the name?

Good Morning Nora!

I'm so sorry I missed you on Saturday (those pesky LSAT's dontcha know) :rolleyes:

Anyhoo, here's my question:

Will you be attending the RWA luncheon that is going to be held at the Bethesda Marriott on October 26th?

Have you ever done this --> You know how mom's lick their thumb or finger and clean a baby's face, or I have seen some babies drop a pacifier and the mom will put it in their own mouth to clean it if water is unavailable. What is it about a mother's spit that makes things clean?

Hello :little_nora: ! After looking at the pics from the signing this last weekend, something occured to me.

Kayla doesn't have any hair. What she does have looks to be very fine and blond. (lucky girl)She's gorgeous btw.

So my SQ: Do we need to do a rain dance type deal so her hair will grow? *You think I can google a rain dance?*

Hi Nora,

It's been a while since I asked a question, but I think this is a good one.

If one (unattached) person has a very vivid erotic dream (from which she wakes up blushing and sweaty) about a person of her acquaintance (who is also unattached as far as she knows), would it be too silly/presumptuous/weird to send a thank you note?

It was a really good dream; it seems a thank you at the least is in order.

Connie

Nora,

How many stock are in the flock nimbly traversing all that rock and meandering near the sky blue loch filled with pike and hidden in the hills of the garden Guoneenaguppoge? :gleefull: :hula-smilie: Oh brother! I think it's time for Electroshock! :rolleyes:

Have you ever been invited to the White House?

When I have yummy sweets, such as Deb's brownies, I'm very good at rationing them out. Yep, I have some left--better to have a couple a day, like a mid-day pick-me-up and an after-dinner treat, than to gobble them all down then shed a tear over the empty container.

If someone said I can't write Romance because I'm a good writer, I'd appreciate the second half of the statement and point out that she obviously doesn't know much about the genre. It's a very big umbrella with a lot of spokes, and I've selected several of its spokes as frameworks for my books. A love story with emotional commitment, sexual tension, a happy ending--those are the constants of the genre, whichever spoke is chosen. I write Romance.

I like Mac Jackson. Nice strong name. I always like incorporating family names, too.

I'm planning on being at the WRW Bookseller's Lunch, or Tea--whatever it is at the end of the month. The TTP gang--BW, Stacie and Norma--will be there, too.

Mom spit is magic--just like the extra set of eyes in the back of her head. I used both the spit and the eyes whenever the situation called for them.

Actually, Kayla's got a teeny little curl of hair at the base of her neck. So cute. Like her Daddy, and I believe her Mama, too, she's taking her time growing it over the rest of her head. But a hair dance might speed things up.

I think it's only polite--and imagine Miss Manners would agree--to send a thank you note regarding the dream. It's the least you can do. The most being asking said unattached individual out and offering to demonstrate said dream.

The Farmer--as we call him--has the stock, though we don't know the number or name. The stock must enjoy the grass as they've asked to stay. Fine with us. When I visit, I'll wear sturdy pants--and boots. Good, sturdy boots as when the stock eats the grass, they're bound to leave paddies (and I don't mean Padricks) on what's left of the grass.

I've never had an individual invite to the WH, though I have had invites to group dinner things. Never made it.

Nora

Hi Nora...

don't know if this is a witty ( or stupid, or whatever ) question, but...for the last few days I've been listening to Vaya Con Dios all the time...Not sure if that's normal, but it's still not a problem..So, my question is, do you like Vaya Con Dios and what's your favorite song of theirs? Mine are What's A Woman and Farewell Song...


Teo

Nora,

We all know you're a force to be reckoned with.

How does it feel to have a force of nature named after you? I'm referring to Tropical Storm Nora, spinning off the coast of Baja right now.

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Phyllis. Someone already asked the question early in this thread:

From: mistfox:

Quote:

Ahoy Nora,

How do you feel about having a tropical storm named after you? Tropical storm Nora is now situated in the Pacific Ocean.

Tropical Storm Nora

Mistfox - who never had a storm named for her (yet)

Nora's response:

Quote:

I think since they named Isabel after my former Silhouette editor and good pal, it's only right I get a hurricane, too.

From: SQ XI

Nora, I got an invite to a baby shower yesterday and it asks that I bring, in addition to the gift, a "favorite children's book" for the new baby's library. Since I don't want mommy and baby to end up with 12 copies of Goodnight, Moon and 8 of The Velveteen Rabbit, what's a good book you could recommend (as the Nana of all Nanas) that might not show up as a double? Thank ya, thank ya!

Greetings oh Great One.....

Do you drink hot chocolate? And if so, with or with out marshmallows???

Hello Nora,

Do you listen to any internet radio stations? If so which ones do you like?