Chat Log: Patricia A. Rasey
August 20th, 2004 Chat with Patricia A. Rasey
22:23:34 [Patricia] Okay–I left six people in the other chat room–I hope they make it over.
22:23:36 [Patricia] Hi, guys!
22:23:38 [Barbara] Ah, the star has arrived <G>
22:23:48 KarenT enters this room
22:23:49 [JLAbbott] Welcome, Pat!!!
22:23:51 [Glenda] Hey Patricia!!
22:23:58 [Patricia] LOL Thanks, Barabara
22:24:03 [RebelYell3] About blooooooody time
22:24:04 [Patricia] Hi, Glenda!
22:24:10 EJ enters this room
22:24:10 [Patricia] Yeah, yeah
22:24:43 [Patricia] Hi, Laura, EJ, Moe, Karen and Kim–who am I missing
22:25:03 [EJ] Hi…so sorry I’m late!
22:25:11 [Glenda] is mittens still here?
22:25:22 ChandlerM enters this room
22:25:29 [Patricia] You aren’t late EJ–apparently I was in the wrong room with six other people
22:25:36 [Patricia] Ah, Chandler made it!
22:25:39 [Glenda] Good crowd!
22:25:45 Lynn enters this room
22:25:51 [Patricia] 4 or 5 more and will have everyone.
22:26:04 [ChandlerM] Yes. Apparently there was this Twilight Zone room sucking people in…….
22:26:07 [Patricia] Lyn made it–hopefully Terry and Mel make it and Carol
22:26:14 [Patricia] LOL
22:26:29 Patricia exits from this room
22:26:35 [Glenda] so true Chandler
22:26:41 Moe exits from this room
22:27:00 Patricia enters this room
22:27:09 [ChandlerM] Moe’s gone. Now it’s sucking people right out of our midst!
22:27:11 [Barbara] The Twilight Zone is still scooping up people
22:27:13 Patricia exits from this room
22:27:16 Moe enters this room
22:27:36 Patricia enters this room
22:27:37 [Moe] Feel free to use emoticons (the codes will pop up in another screen if you click on the ? in the lower left corner) but please leave text colour for our Author, Moderator and myself.
22:27:39 [ChandlerM] Pat disappears. Moe Returns. What fun.
22:27:41 [JLAbbott] This is bizarre!!!!
22:27:58 [Patricia] Sorry guys–I saw Carol over in the room and am trying to get her over here. LOL
22:27:59 [Glenda] How bizarre. How Bizarre.
22:28:03 [JLAbbott] Kinda like our very own mystery story….
22:28:12 [Moe] I left because my messages didn’t seemto be going through.
22:28:13 [KimCox] Chat link on Chat Schedule page is now fixed
22:28:17 [Barbara] I’ll change my color
22:28:30 [Glenda] Like looking for a black pearl on the ocen floor.
22:28:37 [Moe] Patricia could you change your text to red so we can see you better from everyone else.
22:28:38 [Glenda] ocean
22:28:42 [Patricia] Okay–we lost Carol over there
22:28:44 [KimCox] Pat is Carol on AOL?
22:28:50 [Patricia] How’s this
22:29:01 [Patricia] Try it again
22:29:26 [KimCox] Is Carol on AOL?
22:29:27 [Moe] Try the other end. I think it’s brighter
22:29:31 [Patricia] She was in room 1 on the right of the screen. ROFL but now she is gone. I lost Mel as well
22:29:37 [Glenda] Glenda putting on her tap shoes and feather boa to entertain during this.
22:29:41 [Patricia] This better
22:29:46 [KimCox] AOL users have to go through IE instead of the AOL browser
22:30:11 [Moe] Sorry for the mix up. This is the better chat room, honest.
22:30:14 RebelYell4 enters this room
22:30:37 [Moe] Rebel are you using AOL?
22:31:10 [Moe] Yes Pat.
22:31:16 [RebelYell4] No, although AOL might be better than MSN, who SUCK!!!!!!!
22:31:35 [Patricia] Not a problem, Mo–I just hope they find there way here. LOL I tried to direct them. I just sent them both an email
22:31:36 [Glenda] Where’s everyone from? I’m live in Tupelo,MS
22:31:44 [Moe] AOL crashes a lot with this chat.
22:31:50 [ChandlerM] Bethel, ME
22:31:53 [Glenda] I’m live…yes, but I live.
22:31:53 [RebelYell4] Chicago
22:31:56 [Moe] Kim you moderating for Jacki?
22:31:57 [Patricia] Ohio, Gleenda
22:32:14 [Rebecca] Colorado
22:32:19 [Barbara] I’m in southern California 11 miles from the riginal Disneyland
22:32:22 [RebelYell4] MSN crashes a lot….period 
22:32:26 [JLAbbott] I’m Colorado, too
22:32:28 [Moe] Ontario Canada…and happy to be with electricity.
22:32:32 [Patricia] Sorry fingers are screwing up again. LOL
22:32:35 [Glenda] Chicago Chicago that toddlin’ town. Down by the banks of the Ohio
22:32:35 [Barbara] original
22:32:47 [Glenda] Rocky Mountain high. Colorado.
22:33:02 [JLAbbott] Glenda sings again…LOL
22:33:03 [Glenda] Oh Canada!
22:33:11 [RebelYell4] Pat lives in Bugtussle, Ohio, population 12
22:33:16 [EJ] Ontario, Canada!
22:33:17 [Glenda] Can ya’ll tell I love music?
22:33:29 [Patricia] 15 Trace
22:33:30 [EJ] Me, too, Moe…tired of running a generator!
22:33:31 [Barbara] I love that John Denver song–Rocky Mountain High
22:33:36 [Moe] Stop, in the name of Love!
22:33:36 [Glenda] LOL…Bugtussle.
22:33:38 [Moe] Glenda
22:33:41 [RebelYell4] Glenda, you’re just singing up a storm tonight
22:33:51 [Patricia] I love music as well–probably why I always mention music in my books
22:33:59 [JLAbbott] In the same spirit as Elkpoop, Colorado LOL
22:34:03 [Moe] Kim? You out there?
22:34:08 [Glenda] hope not. Don’t need a tornado.
22:34:15 [RebelYell4] And why I always alter them to Achy Breaky Fart
22:34:24 [EJ] Watched Shania Twain concert from Chicago last night.
22:34:33 [ChandlerM] “probably why I always mention music in my books” King tends to do that, too.
22:34:35 [RebelYell4] Hahaha….Laura
22:34:48 mittens enters this room
22:35:01 [Patricia] Carol made it!
22:35:03 [Glenda] mittens!
22:35:16 [Patricia] LOL Chandler–that he does.
22:35:18 Melissa enters this room
22:35:20 [RebelYell4] Shania….don’t get me started……
22:35:26 [ChandlerM] Mittens, you made it! We were despairing of you.
22:35:35 [Moe] Hello and welcome! We’re talking to Patricia Rasey. We’ll be using protocol, so please type “?” to ask a question, “!” to make a comment, and “GA” for go ahead to signify you’re done speaking. WE WILL CALL ON YOU IN TURN.
22:35:48 [Moe] Feel free to use emoticons (the codes will pop up in another screen if you click on the ? in the lower left corner) but please leave text colour for our Author, Moderator and myself.
22:35:50 [Glenda] Shawhina
22:35:59 [RebelYell4] ? Ok, Pat, when the heck is “The Hour Before Dawn” coming out????? Huh????? Huh?????
22:36:05 Melly enters this room
22:36:20 [Patricia] Hi, Melly
22:36:20 [Moe] Hello and welcome! We’re talking to Patricia Rasey. We’ll be using protocol, so please type “?” to ask a question, “!” to make a comment, and “GA” for go ahead to signify you’re done speaking. WE WILL CALL ON YOU IN TURN.
22:36:33 [Patricia] Trace–I have no idea. I’m hoping soon. 
22:36:39 [Moe] Feel free to use emoticons (the codes will pop up in another screen if you click on the ? in the lower left corner) but please leave text colour for our Author, Moderator and myself.
22:36:48 mittens exits from this room
22:36:53 [RebelYell4] I’ll believe it when I see it
22:37:01 [Patricia]
22:37:05 [KimCox] Think I rescued everyone
22:37:12 [Patricia] I hear ya.
22:37:13 [KimCox]
22:37:26 [Patricia] We have two in room one again
22:37:32 [Moe] Kim you introducing?
22:37:42 [RebelYell4] Someone is “frustrated”
22:37:49 [Patricia] Actually –thre are in room 1 over on the right
22:37:51 [Glenda] lol
22:37:59 [Moe] I go
22:38:03 Moe exits from this room
22:38:19 [Glenda] poor things! Give ‘em a book.
22:38:40 [Patricia] LOL We’ll definitely give someone a book tonight
22:38:54 [KimCox] hmmm
22:38:56 [KimCox] Moe?
22:39:06 [Patricia] Okay–any questions? Hmmmm?
22:39:25 [JLAbbott] ?
22:39:30 [KimCox] She must’ve already gone to get them as I see her there too.
22:39:31 [Patricia] Hahaha now 2 are in room 3
22:39:38 [ChandlerM] Pat, where do you see your stories going in the future?
22:39:39 [Patricia] We are doomed tonight, I tell you
22:39:46 [RebelYell4] ! Nope, I know everything there is to know about Pat, including where her tattoos are located
22:39:54 [KimCox] doesn’t look good, but I’ll think positive
22:39:58 [Glenda] ?
22:40:00 MelJ enters this room
22:40:09 Moe enters this room
22:40:24 [KimCox] Here they come
22:40:34 Moe exits from this room
22:40:44 lynL enters this room
22:40:47 [Patricia] Chandler–I am hoping to stay in the thriller line and go a bit more mainstream–more marketable
22:40:52 [KimCox] weird, never had this problem with this room
22:40:57 [Patricia] shhh, Trace
22:41:05 [ChandlerM] Ahhh. Now you’re in my ballpark.
22:41:17 [Patricia] Thanks, Chandler
22:41:26 [ChandlerM] Any supernatural?
22:41:29 [Glenda] new book…Terror in the Chat.
22:41:32 [Patricia] My next project is called Love You to Pieces
22:41:40 [Patricia] LOL Glrnda
22:41:53 Moe enters this room
22:42:11 [KimCox] Introduction:
22:42:12 [Glenda] Chatroom of the Damned
22:42:17 [Patricia] I don’t know, Chandler–I’ve never done paranormals before, but that doesn’t mean if the mood doesn’t strike I won’t–but at this point it’s not in the plans
22:42:17 [KimCox] Patricia A. Rasey is a three-time recipient of the Word Weaving Award for Literary Excellence and has also received an Honorable Mention in the prestigious Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence 2000.
22:42:31 [Patricia] Thanks, Kim
22:42:44 Moe exits from this room
22:42:47 [KimCox] Kiss of Deceit received a nomination for this award as well. She is a two-time EPPIE finalist and was a 2001 nominee for Romantic Times Magazine’s Best Electronic Book. Additionally, Twilight Obsessions, a hair-raising trilogy of dark suspense by authors Charlotte Boyett-Compo
22:43:07 [KimCox] (“Taken By The Wind”), Kate Hill (“Love On The Wild Side”), and Patricia A. Rasey (“Fear The Dark”), were nominated for the 2000 PEARL, the Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature, in the Best Anthology category. Her short story, In the Mind of Darkness won the P&E 2002 Horror short stor
22:43:28 [KimCox] Her short story, In the Mind of Darkness won the P&E 2002 Horror short story category.
22:43:28 [RebelYell4] Hehehehe….Twqilight Obsessions is “history”
22:43:59 [ChandlerM] Very impressive Pat. Congratulations.
22:44:06 [Patricia] But Fear the Dark–my story in it is now available on it’s own through Amber Quill
22:44:13 [Patricia] Thanks, Chandler
22:44:19 OCH! enters this room
22:44:21 [KimCox] Visit Ms. Rasey’s website at: http://www13.brinkster.com/rasey/
22:44:37 [Patricia] or PatriciaRasey.com will get you there as well
22:44:48 Melissa enters this room
22:44:50 [KimCox] I thought so
22:45:15 [Patricia] Okay–I’m feeling really bad for those over in room 1 and 2 
22:45:28 [Patricia] Hi, Melissa–you made it!
22:45:36 [ChandlerM] ?Pat do you outline or are you an ‘organic writer’?
22:45:38 Moe enters this room
22:45:57 [Moe] Don’t feel bad. No ones there.
22:46:21 [Patricia] if you mean organic by just growing the story from seed and running with it–yep, that’s pretty much how I write. I do a brief outline in my head–but nothing real elaborate
22:46:36 [Patricia] Oh, okay, Mo–thanks
22:46:43 [Moe] I’ve been to both and no one’s responded. I’ve left directions to come here.
22:46:54 [Patricia] Thanks
22:47:15 [ChandlerM] I’m always glad to hear that. I’ve heard so much baloney from those who should know better about how you can’t write a novel without an outline.
22:47:43 Terry enters this room
22:47:56 [Moe] Hello and welcome! We’re talking to Patricia Rasey. We’ll be using protocol, so please type “?” to ask a question, “!” to make a comment, and “GA” for go ahead to signify you’re done speaking. WE WILL CALL ON YOU IN TURN.
22:48:01 [KimCox] yahoo?
22:48:03 [Patricia] Oh, I’ve been told that as well, Chandler–but I have written 8 novels that way–and they all seem to come together in the end
22:48:07 [Terry] duh!! LOL
22:48:08 [Moe] Feel free to use emoticons (the codes will pop up in another screen if you click on the ? in the lower left corner) but please leave text colour for our Author, Moderator and myself.
22:48:08 [Glenda] hi Terry
22:48:13 [Patricia] Terry made it
22:48:23 [ChandlerM] Amazing how that happens, isn’t it?
22:48:34 Barbara exits from this room
22:48:41 [Terry] lol….thanks for the email….it wouldn’t work when I typed it in
22:48:52 [RebelYell4] ?
22:48:53 [Patricia] Yes, it is–I would call that God given–because sometimes I don’t understand myself how it just all comes together
22:49:07 [Patricia] Glad you made it
22:49:17 [ChandlerM] Endings seem to be the hardest. They just suddenly ARE.
22:49:19 [Patricia] Yes, Trace
22:49:32 [Patricia] Right, Chandler–you are right
22:49:41 Melissa enters this room
22:49:51 [Patricia] Hi, Melissa!!
22:49:59 [RebelYell4] Howmuch research did you have to do on your historical romances, and did you outline those because of the historical aspect?
22:50:07 [ChandlerM] Because of that I often wonder if I didn’t rush them. But apparently not. Do you feel that, too?
22:50:30 TerryH enters this room
22:50:47 [TerryH] *stumbling in*….sorry LOL
22:51:00 [TerryH] promise I’ll stay this time
22:51:13 [Moe] Hello and welcome! We’re talking to Patricia Rasey. We’ll be using protocol, so please type “?” to ask a question, “!” to make a comment, and “GA” for go ahead to signify you’re done speaking. WE WILL CALL ON YOU IN TURN.
22:51:26 [Patricia] Okay–you caught me. I did exactly what I had to know to write the historicals. You’d probably fall over and say no–that’s not right. LOL But seriously–I researched the time era and the area–but I didn’t get real heavy into the research–that’s why I switched to suspense-0-I suddenly love the re
22:52:09 [Glenda] Moe and Kim deserve a drink.
22:52:18 [Patricia] Usually my endings seem just right, Chandler–but there is one book I wish I would have improved on–but now that one seems the one most want a sequel from
22:52:27 [Patricia] Cheers, guys!
22:52:31 [Moe] (I could use one, Glenda)
22:52:47 [Moe] I think we lost Kim
22:52:48 [ChandlerM] “–but now that one seems the one most want a sequel from” LOL
22:53:07 [Patricia] Oh–and trace–it cut my answer off–I meant I do loads of research for the thrillers
22:53:25 [KimCox] Kim’s here!
22:53:30 [Patricia] Yeah–imagine that, Chandler–the one ending I thought shaky
22:53:33 [RebelYell4] That is true, especially with the vamp stuff
22:54:00 [Patricia] yes, Trace–probably more than I should have. LOL
22:54:21 [RebelYell4] But you had fun nevertheless
22:54:30 [Patricia] Any other questions?
22:54:48 [RebelYell4] ?
22:54:49 [Patricia] Yes, Trace–I did. I love the vampire books and they did sell well
22:54:57 [Patricia] Go ahead, Trace
22:55:12 [RebelYell4] Too bad they ain’t at the right publisher, but that’s another story
22:55:34 [Patricia] 
22:55:43 [Glenda] If you could pick the brains of any author, living or dead…whom would it be and why?
22:55:50 [Patricia] Cute icon. ROFLMBO
22:55:51 [RebelYell4] Would you ever continue your historical series?
22:55:55 [KimCox] 
22:56:01 [Patricia] Stephen King by far
22:56:14 Melissa enters this room
22:56:30 [Patricia] I love his writing–I think he is very unique and where in the world does he come up withthem ideas? LOL
22:57:00 [Patricia] Trace–I am ending Lawfully Yours with the book Eternally Yours–no, there won’t be a third book
22:57:00 [Glenda] I love King!
22:57:18 [Patricia] Thanks, Glenda–he is awesome and deserves to be King. LOL
22:57:25 [RebelYell4] Then what am I to do with all those pictures??? Hehehe
22:57:36 [Patricia] Are you having problems chatting or staying in Melissa?
22:57:58 [Patricia] Ummm…save the bustle one for Dragonlord–the french pirate story
22:58:14 [RebelYell4] OK…Eddie will be thrilled
22:58:30 [Patricia] He’ll be on 4 romance covers
22:58:45 [RebelYell4] ! I think you should combine your book subjects and do a biker vampire one
22:58:52 [Patricia] Any other questions–I’m all ears
22:59:10 [Patricia] LOL Trace–Bad enough I did a nija vampire
22:59:17 [Patricia] ninja
22:59:19 [Glenda] ?
22:59:21 [TerryH] I think a biker vampire story would do well *w*
22:59:30 [RebelYell4] Hell’s Vamps
22:59:35 [Patricia] Probaly, Terry
22:59:43 [Patricia] LOL Trace
22:59:51 [Patricia] Okay, Gleda
22:59:57 [Glenda] Is there any sort of book you’d just love to write but haven’t?
23:00:08 [Patricia] Glenda–I keep missing letters LOL
23:01:27 [Patricia] Oh geeze, I just answered that on my interview page and can’t remember what I said. LOL I’m not sure–I think Love You to Pieces–it’s been in my head for awhile now and I am leery to write it as it does promise to be a bit mt graphic–and dark. But will see how it goes
23:01:54 [Patricia] that was suppose to be more graphic
23:02:07 [RebelYell4] ?
23:02:10 EJ exits from this room
23:02:14 [Glenda] dark and graphic. Two of my favorite things!
23:02:25 [Patricia] Thanks, Glenda
23:02:57 [Patricia] I think we lost Kim again and we keep losing people. Do we want to give away books before we lose too many. LOL
23:03:09 [Patricia] Ooops–there’s Kim
23:03:17 [ChandlerM] No. Wait till everyone else is gone……
23:03:30 [RebelYell4] “Graphic” in terms of what you did to your victims in Facade? That type of stuff?
23:03:32 [KimCox] Me?
23:03:33 [Glenda] lol
23:03:38 [RebelYell4] Chandler….hahahaha
23:03:39 [TerryH] LOL
23:03:49 [Patricia] LOL Chandler–but we are giving away my historical romance. Maybe we could give the winner their choice of books
23:04:07 [Patricia] Yeah–thought I lost ya, Kim
23:04:25 [KimCox] No here
23:04:25 [Patricia] Yes, Trace–graphic in the way Facade was–dark
23:04:39 [KimCox] Ready to draw a name
23:04:48 [RebelYell4] Good, cause when you get creepy, that’s your finest stuff, in my opinon
23:04:58 [RebelYell4] opnon
23:05:03 [RebelYell4] oops
23:05:11 [Patricia] Thanks, Trace–and I do intend it to be creepy. LOL
23:05:12 [Glenda] hehe
23:05:15 [RebelYell4] Disqualify me, please
23:05:28 [TerryH] I like her best from the antagonist POV
23:05:50 [Patricia] LOL Terry–that’s the scary part–my favorite POV
23:05:52 [Glenda] for seplling errors, Rebel?
23:05:59 [RebelYell4] Same here….she can be sooooo nasty when she gets into their heads
23:06:17 [Patricia] The guy in Love You to Piecse promises to be VERY creepy
23:06:29 [RebelYell4] No, since I edit most of her books, I have them already
23:06:49 [Glenda] cool!
23:06:50 [TerryH] I’m passing your books out here…getting new fans for ya
23:06:57 [Patricia] After all–he get’s into cutting people up–vacuum packing body parts and mailing them to the families of the victimes. He’s not right
23:07:11 [Patricia] Thanks, Terry–I appreciate that big time!!
23:07:19 [TerryH] eewww!!! OMG
23:07:19 [RebelYell4] Ya think???? Hahaha
23:07:35 [KimCox] working on it, but I’m slow
23:07:41 [Patricia] And then there is his fetish……
23:07:48 Moe exits from this room
23:08:00 [Patricia] oops–lost Mo
23:08:25 [RebelYell4] Your suspense books to me come off like a cross between a King novel and the show CSI
23:08:45 [Patricia] LOL thanks, Trace–I appreciate that
23:08:51 [RebelYell4] Forensics with Sickos
23:09:09 [KimCox] drum roll please
23:09:11 [Patricia] My historical romances have been getting good reviews–but I am very partial to the thriller genre when writing
23:09:19 [Patricia] LOL Trace
23:09:24 [RebelYell4] Not sure what that says about your personally, but there you have it!!!
23:09:30 [Patricia] drum rolllllllllll
23:09:39 [Glenda] rat-a-tat-tat
23:09:45 [Patricia] 
23:09:47 [KimCox] thanks Glenda
23:09:52 [KimCox] And the winner is ….
23:09:54 [RebelYell4] You could do serial killers of the old west
23:09:56 [KimCox] TerryH
23:10:06 [TerryH] YEAS!!!
23:10:07 [Glenda] congratulations!!!!
23:10:09 [RebelYell4] Who also just happen to be vamps on bicycles
23:10:10 [TerryH] OMG
23:10:12 [Patricia] LOL I’ll think about it…okay, I did–no
23:10:22 [ChandlerM] Congrats!
23:10:27 [Patricia] Cool–congrats, Terry!!
23:10:29 [KimCox] Congrats, TerryH!
23:10:33 [TerryH] thank you, thank you! I can’t believe I got so lucky!
23:10:53 [Glenda] Vampire Hawgs?
23:10:55 [Patricia] She gets the paperback–we will be drawing for two more–they get downloads, right?
23:10:55 KarenT exits from this room
23:11:12 [Patricia] LOL Glenda
23:11:12 [KimCox] Pat give your e-mail addy for the winner to send their info too
23:11:20 [TerryH] Thanks Pat!
23:11:21 [KimCox] two more
23:11:23 [KimCox] okay
23:12:02 [TerryH] can’t see the white text
23:12:29 [KimCox] next winner Karen T
23:12:30 [Patricia] LOL You know my email addy, Terry I’ll email you
23:12:39 [KimCox] ah, she just left
23:12:41 [Moe] parasey @earthlink . net
23:12:48 [Moe] with no spaces.
23:12:50 [Glenda] Congrats to Karen!
23:12:50 [Patricia] Karen left the room.
23:12:55 [KimCox] she can still get it though
23:12:56 [TerryH] *BS* I’ll be looking forward to receiving it…and keeping it with the others
23:12:59 [Glenda] Anyone know her addy?
23:13:04 [KimCox] I have her addy somewhere
23:13:16 [Patricia] No–I don’t
23:13:20 [RebelYell4] Yes, I have Karen Troxel’s email address
23:13:29 [Patricia] If you have it–please send her my addy, Kim
23:13:32 [KimCox] and the third winner: ChandlerM
23:13:45 [KimCox] Trace has it, Pat
23:13:48 [Glenda] Yes Chandler. Go Go GO!
23:13:51 [Patricia] Okay–trace–you send her my addy and tell her she won
23:13:58 [KimCox] Congrats to Karen and Chandler
23:14:01 [Patricia] Gongrats, Chadler!
23:14:23 [Patricia] Send me your email addres, Chandler–and which book you want and what format
23:14:28 [RebelYell4] kwriter @ adelphia.net
23:14:30 [Glenda] I’m looking forward to reading your books Patricia.
23:14:38 [RebelYell4] no spaces, of course
23:14:47 [Glenda] Thanks for the chat. Thanks to WordMuseum!!
23:15:01 [KimCox] Thank you all for coming.
23:15:06 [TerryH] this was great to be here with all of you
23:15:06 [Glenda] Got to run. Goodnight all.
23:15:12 [KimCox] Thank you, Pat!
23:15:15 [RebelYell4] Is it over all ready?
23:15:16 [Moe] Thanks to everyone for coming and your patience witht the chat room.
23:15:17 [KimCox] night Glenda
23:15:21 [Moe] Thanks Patricia
23:15:27 [Patricia] Thanks, guys! I had fun and congrats to the winners
23:15:31 [KimCox] really, we don’t usually have this trouble
23:15:43 [Patricia] Does anyone have Chandlers addy?
23:15:47 [Patricia] Chandler?
23:15:59 [Moe] You just happen to find the one old link on the site.
23:16:02 [Patricia] LOL It’s got to be me, Kim–it follows me
23:16:41 [Moe] Pat- if you click on the little person beside chanlders name it will come up in a separate box
23:17:15 [Patricia] I tried that but it just came up on my screen
23:17:20 [KimCox] I don’t
23:17:26 [KimCox] he’s still showing here
23:17:37 [Moe] author@chandlermcgrew.com
23:17:50 [Patricia] I know but he went silent–wonder if he froze
23:18:00 [Patricia] thanks, Mo–I’ll email him!
23:18:02 [KimCox] I see to always miss a link when I change them too
23:18:05 [KimCox] so my fault
23:18:29 [Patricia] Well–thanks, guys–it’s been fun!
23:18:37 RebelYell4 exits from this room
23:18:41 [TerryH] night Pat! *hugs*
23:18:43 [KimCox] thank you, Pat
23:18:48 [KimCox] it was a joy as always having you
23:18:52 [Patricia] I have to go–I have to get up in the morning to take my son to get his wisdom teeth cut out. Ouch
23:18:55 [Moe] Thanks Patricia. Night
23:19:00 [Patricia] Thnaks, Kim
23:19:00 [TerryH] ouch
23:19:01 [KimCox] goodnight all
23:19:08 [TerryH] bye
23:19:14 [Patricia] LOL Terry–and I’ll email you about your biook
23:19:15 [Rebecca] I enjoyed the chat.
23:19:16 [KimCox] night , Terry
Chat Log: Melinda Rucker Haynes
July 30th, 2004 Chat with Melinda Rucker Haynes
22:14:49 [Jacqueline] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. To enter your name, please type it in the upper left hand name box and then type “enter”. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:14:57 [AzGaye] kick butt action is popular these days, even romance getting into the act <g>
22:15:00 [Mmmmelinda] This one isn’t dubbed, but has to be early 70s with all those “fros”
22:15:02 [Jacqueline] Are you ready, Melinda/
22:15:26 [Mmmmelinda] Ready, Jacki
22:15:39 [Jacqueline] Melinda Rucker Haynes writes about the transformational power of love and is author of two paranormal romances, The Eternal Trust (02) and its sequel, Breach of Trust (6/03) for Five Star Publishing. Her novels have won numerous awards including the RWA Golden Heart.
22:15:47 [Mmmmelinda] GA
22:16:03 [Jacqueline] Melinda is a former education research projects director and the creator of Personal Time Travel® past life regression process and Story Compass© creative development tool and strategy.
22:16:19 [Jacqueline] Melinda holds a master’s degree in secondary/adult education and is a certified neuro-linguistic programming practitioner, a certified hypnotherapist and a Dr. Brian Weiss certified past life regression therapist.
22:16:39 [Jacqueline] She consults internationally as a performance enhancement coach, presenting creativity exploration and personal development seminars. Melinda maintains a busy transformational coaching practice and teaches writing, creativity development and personal development at various venues.
22:17:03 [Jacqueline] She and her husband enjoy working and traveling between the United States, Europe and the South Pacific. At present, she’s hard at work researching the next novel in her ongoing story that began with THE ETERNAL TRUST and is continued in BREACH OF TRUST.
22:17:30 [Jacqueline] Please give Melinda a warm and heartfelt applause. 
22:17:49 [Mmmmelinda] Thank you, thank you!
22:18:00 [AzGaye] Clapping <><>M<.!Too bad we can’t do a time travel here. It is great fun! ga
22:18:02 [Glenda] clap,clap,clap
22:18:12 [Lainie] <<clapping>> Yeah Melinda!
22:18:32 [Mmmmelinda] Gaye, I’ve a friend in NZ that is a hypnotherapist and she’s doing online therapy!
22:18:39 [Jacqueline] Melinda, can you please tell us a little about Breach of Trust and The Eternal Trust?
22:19:08 [Jacqueline] Then we’ll take questions.
22:19:17 [AzGaye] !too kewl. That sounds like a real ‘trip’. Yes, tell tell about the books!
22:20:09 [Mmmmelinda] The Eternal Trust has become a trilogy about a soulgroup who incarnate life after life and are brought together by an ancient sword. It’s the catalyst, the soul signal to the individuals
22:20:36 [Glenda] hello Cyn
22:21:00 [Cyn] Hello all. Hi Melinda.
22:21:03 [Lainie] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. To enter your name, please type it in the upper left hand name box and then type “enter”. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:21:21 [Mmmmelinda] to come together to be forged and tempered–to choose love over power and balance the two. The couples always find out that they have past lives together. And the whole group of 6-7 people are in the primary soul group–even the “bad” guy.
22:22:15 [Glenda] ?
22:22:28 [Mmmmelinda] In Breach, the heroine is a hypnotherapist, don’t ya know, and a psychic spy. She’s charged with bringing the hero back in from the cold.
22:22:35 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, Glenda?
22:23:10 [Lainie] ga Glenda
22:23:24 [Glenda] Melinda, I’ve not had the pleasure of reading your work. Do you have a particular author/authors who have been a huge influence on your writing?
22:24:15 [Lainie] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:24:15 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, Richard Bach. Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters–for fiction. Dr. Brian Weiss and Dr. Michael Newton for nonfiction/past lives/reincarnation/hypnosis
22:25:30 [AzGaye] ?
22:25:43 [Mmmmelinda] Richard Bach wrote a book, Illusions, that practically changed my life and probably set me on the path I’ve been on for the last twenty of so years. Have you read this book? I used to read it at least once a month for years, but I haven’t reread it for about five years. I think it’s time to do so a
22:25:53 [Cyn] ?
22:25:54 [Mmmmelinda] again. GA, Gaye
22:26:02 [Lainie] (remember when you’re done talking to type “ga” for go ahead) Are you finished with your answer Melinda?
22:26:20 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, ga
22:26:23 [Lainie] we’ll call on everyone in order.
22:26:31 [Glenda] been a long time since I read Illusions.
22:27:00 [AzGaye] Okay–my question is the three books are linked but feature different couples in each one, right? But the same villain?? GA
22:27:23 [Mmmmelinda] What I loved about Illusions was the possibilities that all that could really be true . . .it’s a theme in my work.
22:27:25 [Joyce] ?
22:28:11 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, Ian Stoddard is the villian in Breach. But Inada is the villian in ET. But I never figured that he was a soulgroup member. GA
22:28:20 [Lainie] ga Cyn, you’re up
22:28:54 [Mmmmelinda] Cyn, is this you, the world builder?
22:29:12 [Cyn] First, I want to thank Melinda for being at the Writer’s Weekend I attended. Her talk was fantastic. Second, I wanted to know what other books she had plans on writing?
22:29:24 [Lainie] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:29:28 [Cyn] Yes, it’s me, Melinda. The bad bad worldbuilder.
22:30:14 [Lainie] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:30:42 [Mmmmelinda] Cyn! It is you, it is you. Talk about a great workshop–Cyn does a kickass world building one. As well as working on T3, I’m working on Past Lives, Eternal Loves–love stories of souls from the many regressions I’ve done through the years. It’s fabulous. And I’ve got a nonparanormal at Flipside. GA
22:30:58 [Lainie] ga Joyce, you’re up
22:31:08 [Joyce] Hi, Mmmmelinda! Have you had past lives and if so, what do you know about them? GA
22:31:12 [Cyn] Wonderful! I hope things go well for you! *blushing* GA
22:31:29 [Jacqueline] sounds fascinating, Melinda
22:32:25 [Mmmmelinda] Oh, yes, Joyce! I’ve had past lives–been a ship wrecked sailor “dinner” for some South Pacific islanders, been a history writer, been a pioneer woman, been a general, GA
22:33:09 [Lainie] ?
22:33:10 [Jacqueline] Melinda, can you tell us what a soul group member is?
22:33:14 [Joyce] That’s so cool. Can I ask another question now? I’m knew at this chat thing. GA
22:33:39 [Lainie] I’ll take a turn – Melinda, how do you know you’ve had these past lives>
22:33:50 [Lainie] (I’ll call on you next Joyce)
22:34:01 [Lainie] ga Melinda (sorry – forgot the ga)
22:34:12 [Mmmmelinda] I’ve also had past life readings from psychics. One of whom said my present husband and I died in the camps at Buchenvald. Also another told me I’d been the writer in New England. GA
22:34:39 [Lainie] ga Joyce, you’re up
22:34:48 [Mmmmelinda] Joyce, I’ve undergone regressions in my training and also can regress myself.
22:34:56 [Glenda] !
22:35:03 [Mmmmelinda] Sorry, that was Lainie. eeeeeeeek
22:35:04 [Joyce] Thanks, Lainie. Lots of people think they’re famous people from past lives, but you don’t seem to think so. What’s up with that? GA
22:35:12 [Cyn] ?
22:35:46 [Lainie] ?
22:36:15 [Mmmmelinda] Joyce, I’ve never regressed anyone who experienced a life as a famous person–usually very ordinary with extraordinary impact for the person being regressed. They learn a lot and release a lot.
22:36:58 [AzGaye] ! LOL _everybody_ can’t have been Cleopatra, etc.
22:37:08 [Mmmmelinda] That’s the therapy part–access those past fears and negative situations that maybe impacting the person’s present life and keeping them from doing/being what they want.
22:37:24 [Lainie] ga Glenda, you’re up
22:37:33 [Glenda] I had a twilight zone experience once. I don’t believe in reicarnation, but this was strange.
22:37:44 [Joyce] Thanks, Melinda. GA
22:37:44 [Lainie] (oops – thought you were done Glenda – sorry)
22:37:50 [Lainie] Hi and welcome Bobby. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:38:10 [Glenda] I was born and adopted in New Orleans at the age of 2 weeks. I had never been to New Orleans and
22:38:29 [Mmmmelinda] They access the life or origin of the problem, then I encourage them to release the fear or negative and see it sparkle away. They release it and feel better. It’s a wonderful thing! Anyone here, hint, hint who wants to speak to their experience? GA
22:38:53 [Glenda] when I went there..I would know what was around the corner
22:38:58 [Lainie] ga Cyn, you’re up
22:39:08 [Glenda] weird! Perhaps genes?
22:39:12 [Glenda] ga
22:39:32 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, Glenda, that’s the deja vu and so many people experience that. GA
22:39:47 [Cyn] I know you spoke a bit about this at your talk, but could you speak a bit more on how these soul groups seem to form. I have to admit, I think I found some of mine and it’s a bit…unnerving.
22:39:49 [Lainie] ga Cyn
22:40:01 [Mmmmelinda] Yes, there’s cellular memory and there’s pastlife memories.
22:40:08 [Cyn] Ack…forgot to put the GA.
22:40:52 [Lainie] Hi and welcome Col. We’re chatting with author Melinda Rucker Haynes tonight. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re done.
22:41:05 [Mmmmelinda] Cyn, you may think that you’ve found your primary soul group and you may have, but my experience has shown that we aren’t to really KNOW who they are while we’re here on earth. I was regressed in Dr. Weiss’s
22:41:30 [Joyce] ?
22:41:37 [Mmmmelinda] training and the hypnotherapist took me to my soul group. I tried to see who they were and they turned their backs to me, laughing. I laughed too.
22:42:06 [Mmmmelinda] Oh, I was in trance and she suggested that I return to the soulgroup. I did. GA
22:42:25 [Lainie] wow Melinda! This is fascinating! How do you do a regression? what if we want to have a regression performed on us? where do we go? Can it be done online? Do you do them for people online? also, can we assume that our close family and friends are our soul group? ga
22:43:30 [Mmmmelinda] The first question–how to do the regression. I use a hypnotic induction, several kinds, actually, depending on the client.
22:43:43 [Jacqueline] Sheesh, Lainie! That was a mouthful
22:43:55 [Glenda] lol
22:44:09 [Lainie] this is just so fascinating!
22:44:33 [Jacqueline] <I love Melinda’s chats>
22:44:47 [Mmmmelinda] I work primarily with writers, because I love writers and creative people. I do regressions at the writers conferences and in my office. I’m at RT, RWA and others. Are you wanting a regression, Lainie? Come to KC :> )
22:45:03 [Cyn] I agree. Melinda is a great speaker. She even helped me to get a request for a full.
22:45:20 [Lainie] <I would love a regression! – Is KC RT next year or when?>
22:45:30 [Mmmmelinda] I haven’t figured out how to regress people online, but I will tell you that it is possible because Jess Stern regressed Taylor Caldwell, who was nearly deaf, by having her read the induction . . .
22:46:00 [Lainie] <I’m hard of hearing so would I have to have it done by reading anyway? also>
22:46:20 [Mmmmelinda] As to close family and friends being in our primary soulgroup–maybe. I think you can look at your spouse or lover as a soulmate. And remember, you enemies, too.
22:46:37 [Cyn] I think if a person can do some self hypnosis, it’d work. I know I do it for some of my online meditations I create. This is fabulous, Melinda, thanks.
22:46:52 [AzGaye] !Lanie–RT is in October this year in KC
22:47:11 [Mmmmelinda] Lainie, were I working with you I would speak directly in your ear and suggest that as you became more and more relaxed you would hear better. Taylor Caldwell could hear while in trance!
22:47:17 [Lainie] <unfortunately I can’t afford to go to RT this year>
22:47:48 [Mmmmelinda] Where are you Lainie?
22:48:06 [Lainie] Fort Lauderdale, Florida
22:49:02 [Mmmmelinda] Baby, Dr. Weiss is in Miami! Of course he’s booked to forever and uses us whom he’s certified to take the overflow of thousands upon thousands.
22:49:39 [AzGaye] ?
22:49:40 [Jacqueline] Joyce, do you want to ask your question now? Then we’ll draw for a prize
22:49:53 [Joyce] In Breach of Trust, the main characters are finding out they’re part of the same soul group. So is the part where the characters talk about setting up “clues” for each other in their next life fictional or could that actually happen? Should we be paying more attention to the people around us? GA
22:50:01 [Lainie] yes, Joyce, ga
22:50:13 [Mmmmelinda] YES YES YES
22:50:25 [Glenda] I’m still waiting by my mailbox for my Valentines prize.
22:50:27 [Lainie] <I’m too slow again >
22:50:34 [Joyce] Yes, it’s fictional or yes we should pay attention?
22:50:47 [Lainie] Glenda email me at Chinara@aol.com about that. I’ll help you
22:51:01 [Glenda] thanks Lainie.
22:51:25 [Mmmmelinda] I call them soulsignals, and according to Newton’s research, before we incarnate we meet with our soulmate/spouse/lover and work out “signals–i.e, I’ll wear a pink carnation and you’ll do handsprings. Then when we’re here we can
22:52:09 [Cyn] Reminds me of What Dreams May Come type of signal
22:52:56 [Glenda] ?
22:52:56 [Mmmmelinda] choose to take the signal or ignore it and move on. I know what my and my DH’s soulsignal was–he said “I’m an aircraft mechanic.” I was absoultely drawn to him on those words. It was when I pulled a bikini out of my briefcase that he stood up and paid attention :> ) GA
22:53:00 [Lainie] Gaye – did you ask your question yet? ga
22:53:29 [AzGaye] No–was just going to ask MM if she could teach someone how to do regressions
22:53:34 [Joyce] Hey! That’s in the book!!
22:53:40 [Lainie] Okay, Gaye. ga Glenda, you’re up
22:53:58 [Glenda] Are you working on eanything now Melinda?
22:53:59 [Lainie] sorry – misunderstood for a sec. hold on Glenda
22:54:17 [Lainie] <I’m really out of synch tonight, sorry>
22:54:22 [Mmmmelinda] Gaye, everytime I hypnotize someone I’m teaching them to hypnotize themselves. And yes, Joyce, it was in the book, clever girl!
22:54:42 [Lainie] ?
22:55:05 [Mmmmelinda] I’m putting together seminars where I’ll travel out to groups and do regression and teach people how to do it. GA
22:55:34 [Lainie] which one of your books was the regression lesson in? and can we hypnotize ourselves to do things like lose weight or stop smoking? ga
22:57:01 [Mmmmelinda] Breach of Trust has a complete regression session in it. And yes we can hypnotize ourselves to lose weight, stop smoking. All hypnosis is self hypnosis. GA
22:57:11 [Jacqueline] <reminder–next time schedule Melinda for a two hour chat >
22:57:30 [Cyn] *nods in agreement*
22:57:33 [Glenda] lol
22:57:43 [Jacqueline] Okay, first prize is a signed copy of THE ETERNAL TRUST.
22:57:47 [AzGaye] !YES!
22:57:50 [Mmmmelinda] I’m game, guys. I lLOVE this!
22:58:10 [Jacqueline] Did you want to draw, Melinda, or do you want me too?
22:58:34 [Mmmmelinda] You draw, Jacki, and if the winner already has ET, I’ll make it Breach.
22:59:01 [Glenda] Where do you live Melinda?
22:59:29 [Jacqueline] Alrighty…my daughter drew the first name. Drumroll please?
22:59:31 [Mmmmelinda] I’m in the SEattle area, but I travel like crazy–to a lovely spot near you?
22:59:55 [Cyn] Florida….now would be good, Melinda.
23:00:34 [Jacqueline] Col. is the winner of Eternal Trust!
23:00:43 [Lainie] yeah Col!
23:00:44 [Glenda] Congrats!!!!!!!
23:00:56 [Jacqueline] Congrats Col!
23:01:01 [Mmmmelinda] Yeah! Happy reads!
23:01:03 [Cyn] Yay, congrats Col!!
23:01:22 [Jacqueline] Are you coming through MT anytime soon, Melinda?
23:01:45 [AzGaye] Kewl COL, lucky you!
23:01:58 [Mmmmelinda] Not that I know of, Jacki, but if a bunch of lovely people wanted me to . . . it could happen, eh?
23:02:04 [Glenda] hello hello to Col.
23:02:23 [Jacqueline] The second prize is Personal Time Travel guided past life regression CD
23:02:39 [Cyn] Like WW next year…You are going to come again, I hope, Melinda. We loved you.
23:02:45 [Mmmmelinda] Coooooooolllllllllllllll, come back from the fridge and claim your prize.
23:02:55 [Glenda] It was a very unteresting chat! Thanks Melinda and Word Museum.
23:03:10 [Jacqueline] Wait, Glenda we have two more prizes
23:03:15 [Mmmmelinda] Thanks, Cyn. I’m so very glad you were in my workshop and I enjoyed yours!
23:03:17 [Glenda] interesting, Gee, my brain is mush.
23:03:20 [Lainie] YW! Melinda, you’ve been wonderful!
23:03:33 [Lainie] Thank you Melinda and everybody for joining us tonight
23:03:45 [Cyn] Thanks. *blushing* I still think I need to work on it. It was my first workshop.
23:03:46 [Mmmmelinda] Glenda, don’t leave–you’ll win something. It’s meant to be?
23:03:54 [Jacqueline] Wait, Wait!
23:03:59 [Cyn] Thanks, Melinda. This chat’s been so fun.
23:04:04 [Glenda] LOl
23:04:11 [Jacqueline] I just drew the name for the cd and it’s Glenda!
23:04:17 [AzGaye] Holding breath…
23:04:27 [Glenda] Hot Dog!
23:04:37 [Mmmmelinda] Jacki, draw those names,
23:04:40 [Lainie] Yeah Glenda!
23:04:52 [Mmmmelinda] Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
23:04:54 [Joyce] OK, Mmmmmelinda. How did you know Glenda was going to win second prize?!?!
23:04:58 [Jacqueline] Now, the final prize is a paperback copy of GHOSTLY ACTS
23:05:30 [Mmmmelinda] Glenda, you’ll love the CD and the regressions on it. Very cool and great prep until we work together, eh?
23:05:52 [Jacqueline] I wish I could have won that one, Glenda
23:05:56 [Glenda] OK
23:06:18 [Jacqueline] The winner of the paperback is Joyce. Congrats Joyce!
23:06:31 [Lainie] yeah Joyce!
23:06:32 [Joyce] Woo HOO! I knew if I hung around long enough… Thanks!
23:06:35 [Glenda] I’ll probably regress to an animal. I connect with animals so well.
23:06:47 [Glenda] Congrats Joyce!!
23:06:47 [AzGaye] !Its a good book, Joyce and yuo will love it; also your teenager if you have a duaghter or granddaughter!
23:06:56 [Mmmmelinda] woooohoooo, Joyce–you’ll have a great time in that little story of a ghost town in Montana!
23:07:13 [Jacqueline] Did Col ever answer?
23:07:24 [Cyn] It’s a great book, Joyce. My daughter and I love it.
23:07:25 [Mmmmelinda] Regress to an animal. I’ve only had one person who did that . . .a sow bear~
23:07:27 [Joyce] Looking forward to it … seeing as how I’m all out of Melinda stuff to read at the moment.
23:07:34 [Glenda] nope. Col. is silent.
23:07:52 [Jacqueline] Elaine? Advice on Col?
23:08:00 [Mmmmelinda] Col is . . . away. Please leave a message after the beep . . .
23:08:22 [AzGaye] Contact him or her by telepathy
23:08:27 [Mmmmelinda] How about — one must be present to win?
23:08:28 [Glenda] Who do we email to give our snail mail addy to?
23:08:48 [Mmmmelinda] Yeah, and how or to whom do I send the goodies to?
23:08:48 [Jacqueline] For the winners who are present, send your snail mail addy’s to jacquelineelliott@earthlink.net and I’ll forward them to Melinda
23:09:11 [Joyce] Col. might have regressed to a past life where there are no chat rooms.
23:09:22 [Lainie] LOL
23:09:26 [Cyn] Or got locked out.
23:09:27 [Glenda] LOL!
23:09:31 [Mmmmelinda] Ha!
23:09:45 [Mmmmelinda] I love it!
23:09:49 [Jacqueline] If you haven’t won a prize, hang out for a couple minutes. We might draw another name for the copy of ET
23:09:56 [Glenda] Goodnight all. Stay safe.
23:10:04 [Jacqueline] Hang out if you have won a prize too.
23:10:24 [Mmmmelinda] See ya, Glenda. Thanks for chatting.
23:10:34 [Jacqueline] Col, are you here?
23:10:54 [Cyn] Great. Melinda, I hope you’ll be able to give your talk again soon. I really have been bragging about it to my friends. *grins* Think I could arrange an interview for our writing group’s newsletter sometime?
23:11:12 [Jacqueline] Going once
23:11:18 [Jacqueline] going twice
23:11:20 [Mmmmelinda] Wonderful, Cyn. I’d love to!
23:11:26 [Joyce] Thanks, Melinda. That was fun…
23:11:40 [Mmmmelinda] Re-draw! Re-draw!
23:11:45 [Cyn] Great! I can email you if you’d like.
23:11:53 [Jacqueline] and the winner is, Gaye!
23:12:04 [Cyn] mine is cynwriter@hotmail.com
23:12:22 [AzGaye] Wowsers cool!! I was waiting for the PB as I am –well, part Scots??
23:12:24 [Lainie] yeah Gaye!
23:12:40 [Mmmmelinda] Please, do email me–Cyn and every else. Gaye, toooooo coool!
23:12:41 [Jacqueline] LOL! Gaye
23:12:43 [AzGaye] Thank you MMMMelinda Can’t wait!
23:12:52 [Cyn] YAY Gaye!
23:13:02 [Mmmmelinda] Guys, a last word or two here.
23:13:16 [AzGaye] This has been fun; I will be back and I didn’t get dumped once!!
23:13:46 [Lainie] great!
23:14:14 [Mmmmelinda] Remember, I love the notion that Creation works with soulgroups and past lives and infinite opportunities to get it right. So I believe we came together tonight for a reason that we perhaps arranged on the other side. We’ll meet again. Till then, much love to you all. mmmmmmmmmmmmm
23:14:36 [AzGaye] Huggss back!
23:14:37 [Jacqueline] Melinda, thank you so much for coming. You are the most fascinating chatter. Thank you all for joining us!
23:14:56 [Jacqueline] Next time at least two hours…
23:15:05 [Cyn] Thanks Melinda! I’ll email you and we’ll set up things. Thanks so much for the chat!
23:15:34 [Mmmmelinda] My eternal pleasure, and thank you Jackie and Laine. My best to WM. Tah, and thanks so much to all for coming to play! mmmmmmmmmmm
Chat Log: Lizzie Starr
July 23rd, 2004 Chat with Lizzie Starr
22:17:54 [Jacqueline] Lizzie Starr made up games and stories to keep her company as a child. So, a witch lived in Grampa’s weather research station and was only held at bay by a certain weed. An ancient road grader became a boat carrying wild adventurers to islands filled with sheep that turned into lions and cannibals.
22:17:59 [Glenda] hello Lainie
22:18:02 [*lizzie] too bad margaret couldn’t “do someting” with the weather. lol
22:18:07 [MargaretM] oops! Maybe I better leave before hers blows up LOL
22:18:07 [Jacqueline] Now, the stories of her imagination are beginning to find their way to paper and pixels. Still filled with fantasy and love, these tales take her far from the mundane world.
22:18:17 [Jacqueline] Hi Lainie!
22:18:30 [*lizzie] Hi Lainie!
22:18:30 [Lainie] Hi Jacki!
22:18:31 [Jacqueline] When Lizzie has to return to that mundane life, she’s a lead cook at a university dining service. Happily, the folks she works with have become accustomed to her writer’s ways and just shake their heads when she goes off on some fantastical tangent, asks strange what if questions, or just has to fi
22:18:48 [Jacqueline] to find a piece of paper and a pen that actually writes. One of her greatest delights is to watch the joy of writing fill a friend, and she’ll do anything to help them achieve their dream.
22:19:10 [Jacqueline] And someday, when she grows up, Lizzie wants to be an eccentric.
22:19:23 [*lizzie] What an amazing woman. :0
22:19:24 [Jacqueline] I Love that, Lizzie. 
22:19:25 [MargaretM] Love that bio
22:19:33 [Glenda] I’ve met that goal.
22:19:43 [Glenda] being eccentric.
22:19:46 [Jacqueline] LOL, Glenda!
22:19:52 [*lizzie] Thanks on the bio!
22:20:03 [*lizzie] And I’m jealous on the eccentric!
22:20:19 [Jacqueline] Lizzie, can you tell us about BIRDS DO IT?
22:20:29 [Glenda] get yourself some purple hats. Speeds along the process.
22:20:34 [*lizzie] okie day
22:20:46 [*lizzie] BDI is my first foray into romantic suspense
22:20:47 [MargaretM] lol
22:21:12 [*lizzie] and an interesting one, since there is only one teeny tiny mention of anything that might possibly have to do with fantasy
22:21:46 [*lizzie] I’d long wanted to write a tale about hyacinth macaws
22:22:11 [*lizzie] and when my critique partners all started using the same names, I had to join the crowd
22:22:41 [*lizzie] Of course the heroine’s name is all her own. Burdetta Opalina Simons.
22:22:57 [*lizzie] Of Birdie. (She’s named after my gramma)
22:23:57 [*lizzie] How much as in books out?
22:24:28 [*lizzie] Glenda-Purple is definately my favorite color.
22:24:45 [Glenda] cool
22:25:13 [Glenda] ?
22:25:16 [*lizzie] questions–ask me questions.
22:25:18 [Jacqueline] It’s my favorite too.
22:25:30 [Jacqueline] ga, Glenda
22:25:35 [Penny] ?
22:25:41 [*lizzie] A creative color!
22:25:51 [Glenda] Is there a certain writer/author who has been a big influence on you/your writing?
22:26:36 [*lizzie] Anne McCaffrey definately. Tolkien without a doubt,
22:26:59 [*lizzie] I pretty well steeped my younger days in fantasy
22:28:15 [*lizzie] Romance wise–I’m a huge fan of Claire Delacroix
22:28:16 [Jacqueline] Lizzie, if you’re done with your answer can you please type ga, so I don’t interupt you?
22:28:28 [Glenda] thank you. ga
22:28:37 [*lizzie] oops
22:28:39 [Glenda] un oh
22:28:41 [*lizzie] ga
22:29:02 [Jacqueline] LOL, Penny ga
22:29:09 [Penny] What is the premise of your story? Hero?
22:29:51 [*lizzie] Birdie owns a bird farm. She gets this frantic call from Garr Logan about his mother’s bird.
22:30:25 [*lizzie] Birdie comes to take care of the wild monster bird, and ends up helping with Garr’s daughter’s ninth birthday party.
22:31:11 [*lizzie] A hard day, since nine years ago to that day her newborn daughter died. Could Rachelle have been switched in the hospital?
22:31:34 [*lizzie] Throw in an ex-lover who wants something from her–and Garr.
22:31:37 [*lizzie] ga
22:31:45 [Glenda] oooo
22:32:03 [Jacqueline] Sounds very good.
22:32:05 [Penny] thanks, ga
22:32:19 [MargaretM] sounds intriguing!
22:32:24 [*lizzie] Thanks!
22:32:34 [Penny] ?
22:32:38 [Jacqueline] Lizzie, what are you working on now, and do you have a website
22:33:20 [*lizzie] I’m working on the fourth book of the double keltic triad–fantasy romances.
22:33:40 [*lizzie] I just finished up a novella for an anthology next year–a fantasy.
22:33:44 [Glenda] can’t wait for that!
22:34:03 [Penny] ::you better be working on a novella, too:: penny mumbles under her breath …
22:34:09 [*lizzie] I have a web site–but it’s pretty empty right now–waiting for me to have time to fill it.
22:34:23 [*lizzie] you can keep your eyes open for http://www.lizziestarr.com/
22:34:26 [*lizzie] ga
22:34:45 [Jacqueline] Is that directed at Lizzie or me, Penny?
22:35:04 [*lizzie] penny, I sent it to you a couple weeks ago. Did it get lost?
22:35:08 [Penny] *lizzie, but it could be applied to you …
22:35:27 [Penny] Hmmmm. Let me check ….
22:35:39 [Glenda] whew. Glad I’m not a writer.
22:36:02 [*lizzie] but we’re glad you’re a reader!
22:36:10 [Jacqueline] Well then it’s me….almost there.
22:36:12 [Glenda] thanks. me too.
22:36:19 [Jacqueline] ga, Penny
22:36:37 [Penny] ok. I found it, *lizzie … sorry
22:36:54 [Penny] Lizzie, was it hard to switch from writing fantasty to romantic suspense?
22:36:58 [Glenda] hi mom2two
22:37:37 [*lizzie] amazingly not. I was surprised. But now I have these other non-fantasies clamoring around in my head.
22:37:54 [Jacqueline] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Lizzie Starr tonight. To enter your name, please type it in the upper left hand name box and then type “enter”. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re finished
22:37:55 [Glenda] I’m Glenda Tutu…retired ballet teacher.
22:38:07 [Penny] Isn’t that always the way?
22:38:13 [*lizzie] and I’m enjoying finding ways to merge the worlds. In fact, Garr is a part of the fourth Keltic book!
22:38:32 [Glenda] cool!
22:38:35 [*lizzie] ga
22:39:07 [Penny] thanks! Gotta get to bed ladies. Have a great chat, *lizzie and let me know where to find your book! ga
22:39:28 [*lizzie] http://www.wings-press.com/
22:39:33 [Glenda] night Penny
22:39:34 [Jacqueline] Nite, Penny! Thanks for coming.
22:39:38 [*lizzie] night, penny!
22:39:38 [MargaretM] Nite Penny!
22:39:58 [Penny] It was fun, as always! Hugs all around.
22:40:36 [Jacqueline] Lizzie, how long have you been writing?
22:40:54 [Jacqueline] Welcome, Carolyn
22:41:11 [carolyn] Thank you
22:41:22 [Lainie] sorry, my explorer froze up
22:41:24 [*lizzie] like most writers–probably forever. However I only started seriously writing when I divorced about, gee what was it, four years ago.
22:41:33 [Lainie] Hi and welcome. We’re chatting with author Lizzie Starr tonight. To enter your name, please type it in the upper left hand name box and then type “enter”. We’ll be using protocol so please type “?” to ask a question and “!” to make a comment and “ga” to signify “go ahead” when you’re finished
22:41:39 [*lizzie] Hi Carolyn!
22:41:46 [carolyn] I’m new to this writing, so I thought I’d just sit back and read your answers
22:41:56 [Lainie] WB Mom
22:42:29 [*lizzie] Ah, I usually lurk in chats, too. But tonight, I can’t.
22:42:38 [Glenda] hehe
22:43:05 [Jacqueline] Hmmm, that’s how long I’ve been writing too.
22:43:06 [Glenda] ?
22:43:14 [Jacqueline] seriously that is
22:43:44 [Jacqueline] ga, Glenda
22:44:29 [Glenda] Do you have a favorite character from your writings?
22:45:22 [*lizzie] Ah–Niallan from Dancing the Stars. Love his purple hair and cobalt blue eyes. he still talks to me at times.
22:46:32 [*lizzie] Actually in many ways he and Kierigh from Double Moon Destiny are very similar–in fact I consider Niallan a reincarnated soul.
22:46:39 [*lizzie] ga
22:46:55 [Glenda] thanks ga
22:47:38 [Jacqueline] Is there anything you do to get in the mood for writing, or do you just sit and write?
22:48:12 [*lizzie] With my work schedule, I’ve learned to just sit and write–on breaks, at lunch, whenever.
22:48:26 [Glenda] If she wants to be an eccentric she needs to put on a purple hat and get nekkid.
22:48:39 [*lizzie] At home I like a candle and music. All kinds of music. I love to tell people I’ve written a love scene
22:48:44 [Jacqueline] LOL, Glenda!
22:49:00 [MargaretM] LOL
22:49:12 [*lizzie] while listening to Wierd Al Yankovic
22:49:34 [Glenda] lol. I love Al!
22:49:34 [MargaretM] LOL good grief LOL
22:49:36 [Jacqueline]
22:49:51 [*lizzie] I’m pretty good at blocking out things that don’t pertain to what I’m doing.. ga
22:50:09 [Jacqueline] Thanks, Lizzie!
22:50:13 [*lizzie] Ah, it was a good scene too, if you know what I mean…..
22:50:45 [Glenda] doing the girnd to a polka beat?
22:50:51 [Glenda] grind
22:50:52 [Jacqueline] Are you ready to give away your doorprizes?
22:51:09 [*lizzie] sure, lets do the fun stuff!
22:51:20 [Jacqueline] Lizzie is offering a silver plated star box and a autographed trade paperback of Birds Do It as doorprizes
22:52:12 [*lizzie] And the box is sooo shiney!
22:52:27 [*lizzie] Of course the book is good, too! LOL
22:52:30 [Glenda] As a star?
22:52:45 [Glenda] I like your name.
22:52:51 [*lizzie] As a star.
22:53:19 [*lizzie] Thanks! I’ve used *lizzie a long time, Starr would have been my daughter’s name.
22:54:28 [*lizzie] Jacki, would you pick the lucky folks please?
22:55:16 [Lainie] what great prizes Lizzie!
22:55:55 [*lizzie] Thanks Lainie. I have a thing for stars.
22:56:04 [MargaretM] oops I think we lost Jacki
22:56:05 [Glenda] I enjoyed the chat tonight.
22:56:35 [*lizzie] Well, she did say she was having storms
22:56:43 [Glenda] hope her ‘puter didn’t fry
22:57:05 [Lainie] uhm…Jacki’s name is stil.l on the list at the side
22:57:13 [Lainie] unless she froze
22:57:23 [MargaretM] It’s not on mine
22:57:29 [Lainie] would you like someone else to choose the winner Lizzie?
22:57:32 [*lizzie] maybe the kids are fighting again.
22:57:47 [*lizzie] hmmm, I’ve got her on list.
22:57:51 [Lainie] that’s strange Margaret. I still see her on my list
22:57:52 [Glenda] It’s on mine. She’s right under my name
22:58:13 [Lainie] right Glenda, that’s where I see it also
22:58:34 [MargaretM] hmm She’s not there on my list ,,, weird
22:58:53 [*lizzie] well, if you’ll trust me, I’ll draw the two names.
22:58:53 [Glenda] is this your first chat here mom2two?
22:59:21 [MargaretM] mom2two isn’t on my list either lol
22:59:55 [Glenda] weird! Perhaps we are in the Twilight Zone.
23:00:13 [Glenda] I KNOW my brain cells are.
23:00:22 [*lizzie] do do do do
23:00:38 [*lizzie] And, a drum roll please……..
23:00:42 [Lainie] I trust you Lizzie!
23:00:42 [Glenda] We trust ya lizzie.
23:00:52 [MargaretM] lol I was wondering if that music was going through anyone elses head lol
23:00:53 [Lainie] rum pum pum pum
23:01:08 [*lizzie] The star box goes to—-Lainie
23:01:11 [Lainie] ra ta tat tat
23:01:18 [*lizzie] Congratulations!
23:01:29 [Glenda] congrats to Lainie!
23:01:36 [*lizzie] And the copy of Birds Do It goes to…..let me pick here…
23:01:37 [Lainie] Thanks Lizzie! I’d love it, but I’m one of the chat hosts, so I don’t know that I can accept it L>(
23:01:43 [Lainie]
23:01:55 [*lizzie] Glenda! Our reader.
23:01:56 [Glenda] awww. Let her have it.
23:02:05 [*lizzie] Woo hoo, congrats!
23:02:16 [Lainie] but let me thank you. I know I came late and I was just filling in for our other chat hose
23:02:22 [*lizzie] If you folks would send me your snail addy, I’ll get these in the mail.
23:02:23 [MargaretM] Yay Glenda!
23:02:23 [Glenda] Yes! congrats to me!
23:02:32 [*lizzie] lizziestarr@neb.rr.com
23:02:36 [Lainie] host (sheesh, not hose – can’t type tonight)
23:02:40 [Lainie] Yeah!
23:02:48 [Glenda] Thanks Lizzie!
23:03:11 [Glenda] I wanna be a hose.
23:03:13 [*lizzie] Whew, it’s almost more nerve wracking picking winners than waiting to be picked. That’s why I wanted Jacki to do it. LOL
23:03:37 [MargaretM] Lovely chatting with you Lizzie, and your novels sound fantatic!
23:03:42 [Lainie] Thank you lizzie. LOL
23:03:57 [MargaretM] lol fantastic that is
23:04:25 [*lizzie] now then, if ya want another pull for the box, I shall, Lainie
23:04:26 [Glenda] Thanks for the chat. Look forward to reading your books.
23:04:41 [MargaretM] Nite All! Gotta get up early tomorrow.
23:04:53 [Glenda] Hope all have a safe night.
23:05:02 [Glenda] Goodnight all.
23:05:06 [*lizzie] Thanks for being here all! It’s been fun!
23:05:19 [Lainie] goodnight! thanks for joining us!
23:05:26 [Lainie] sweet dreams and happy writing.
23:05:34 [Lainie] Please give us your ur.l one last time Lizzie
23:05:39 [Lainie] so it will go on the chat log
23:05:45 [*lizzie] Sparkles to you all!
23:05:55 [*lizzie] http://www.lizziestarr.comhttp://www.lizziestarr.com/
23:06:06 [Lainie] Thank you!
23:06:30 [Lainie] I’ll be sure to check out your website. I looked for it earlier but didn’t find this one (duh)
23:07:11 [Lainie] well, the day job starts early early tomorrow. so I have to sign off. goodnight and have a great week!
23:07:17 [*lizzie] Ah, there’s not much of anything there. Writing time invaded web building time. But, keep trying. ;0
23:07:32 [Lainie] you’ll get there Lizzie
23:07:47 [Lainie] my website’s been a work in progress for 3 or 4 years and it’s al.ways changing
23:07:57 [*lizzie] Me, too. Four thirty is way too early. Good night and sweet dreams.
23:08:13 [Lainie] goodnight Lizzie!
