Heh, it’s official, I have hijacked the Jaunty Blog for a second time. And this time it’s for three whole weeks. Um, okay, it’s for three Mondays since I only have it hijacked on Anne Mallory’s days to post. Anne has gone away for a fabulous European Vacation (Chevy Chase not included) and left me to blog for her.

Heh, heh, heh. Of course that means I have to be clever three whole times, so maybe I’m the one who was had here, not Anne. Yeah, she’s probably off in some delightful place, just laughing her head off at me. That would be SO like her.

But I still must decide what in the world to talk about for three Mondays. I thought to spark some ideas I’d take a pass around some of my favorite blogs and see what everyone else was talking about. At Squawk Radio they’re talking about how boys are weird (especially when it comes to toilets). This is true. Something about the Y chromosome makes you a little… strange. But it gives you many other fine attributes, so we just don’t talk about the toilet thing in romances. It’s sort of like why our characters don’t go to the bathroom and we don’t talk about leg and underarm hair in historicals.

At Romantically Inclined, fellow Avon Author Mary Reed McCall is defining Gamma Heroes. Which is very useful. I think I do write more Gamma than Alpha after all. So now my entire self-image as a writer is smashed. Sigh. See what happens when you blog hop?

At BookEnds, LLC (a literary agent blog), they’re revealing some truly awful query letters. It makes me happy I don’t write these letters anymore. You just don’t realize how many things you do as a writer have nothing to do with writing. Anything I don’t have to do now makes me happy. Of course, I still have to do synopses. If I could work out a way to not do those, I’d be a happy camper. I mean, boiling down your 90,000 word story into 5 pages… yuck!!

My friend Megan Frampton is talking about getting rained on at a wedding. Which made me think of Alanis Morriset’s song “Ironic”. Alanis was college dorm ear food when I was a Sophomore in college (yup, just gave you my age, go do math) and that is an awesome CD. Of course, nothing she lists in the song “Ironic” is actually ironic. As a comedian once said… they’re all UNFORTUNATE, Alanis. Ironic is something else entirely. But I think that song goes to prove that you CAN sacrifice accuracy in some cases as long as the tune is catchy.

And finally, at Stuff on My Cat, people put stuff on their cats. And it’s soooo precious. I mention this just because it’s cute. And who doesn’t need a cute moment on Monday? Or Tuesday? Or at 3pm on a Thursday? You can’t ever get enough cute.

Okay, so that was my cheater post for this week. Give me some ideas of what to talk about next week. Or else you might end up with my long awaited Bryan Adams post. It’s not a threat, but…