Comments on: Oh, the places you’ll go!

By: Sherry Thomas

Sherry Thomas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:19:08 +0000

Either Manhattan, or the North Shore of Oahu.

By: kristan higgins

kristan higgins — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:14:44 +0000

Cindy, I loved Nebraska! Beatrice was gorgeous (and I pronounced it correctly, thanks to you, impressing the docents at the museum no end!) Lincoln was quite charming, too…

Diana, you’ll just have to come to NYC in the spring and fall, when there’s no more beautiful city on earth! And after being in San Fran in the summer, I don’t think you’re a wimp at all! I was freezing!

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:42:19 +0000

A strong sense of setting in a story isn’t necessary for me to enjoy a book, but I do like it when an author is able to capture a setting well. I’ve lived in San Francisco most of my life and can’t imagine living anywhere else. I really like New York City, which is a perfect place for a non-driver like myself. However, the cold winters would be devastating to a wimp like me.

By: Cindy Kirk

Cindy Kirk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:55:39 +0000

Kristan,

I’ve lived in Nebraska my whole life and I love the landscape here…so what that it’s flat. You can see for miles and the sky seems so big and blue.

But traveling, like writing, is my passion and I love it when a book transports me to another place, especially somewhere I’ve never been.

By: kristan higgins

kristan higgins — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:56:30 +0000

I do of course have to stand up for my countrymen here and say that Yankees are the most generous and helpful people on earth. They just feel very uncomfortable letting anyone know how nice they are. But if your house were to burn down…you see where I’m going. We’re neighborly more than we’re friendly. That sort of thing.

By: Emily McKay

Emily McKay — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:55:09 +0000

It’s funny, Kristan, generally, I think we Texans have that southern hospitality thing down. But then we went to Atlanta this spring, the southern hospitality there showed me. Everyone was so friendly they made us look like … well, like Yankees. It was almost overwhelming.

But I would love to keep an old cowboy company too. I love meeting people like that.

By: kristan higgins

kristan higgins — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:09:34 +0000

I’ve always wanted to go to Chicago, Shana! I love cities (and small towns, of course). Chicago has some of the best nicknames, to be sure…City of Big Shoulders, the Windy City…

Em, it’s true, living in New England means you’re never that far from anywhere (with the exception of rural Maine, which is next to nothing and it takes hours to get nowhere…). But if you want mountains or shore or farms or cities, we’ve got it all.

I’ve only been to Dallas, which I thought was beautiful. Being a Yankee, all the friendliness and politeness was a little, er, foreigh…people ask how you are, and they really want to hear your answer! I was at the RWA convention two years ago…my first one, and I was getting breakfast at the hotel restaurant. A man in a Stetson approached me, Wrangler jeans, boots, the whole picture, and he said, “Are you one of them there romance writers?” I said yes, I was, and he asked, “Care to keep an old cowboy company?” I loved keeping the old cowboy company! His name was Earl. An absolute charmer. So I guess I wouldn’t mind spending some more time with Texans.

By: Emily McKay

Emily McKay — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:02:20 +0000

I’ve been a Texas girl since I was ten and sometimes I can’t imagine living anywhere else. But I sometimes fantasize about spending a month or two somewhere else.
Or maybe to have a summer home somewhere. Like that summer house the whole family descend on in the movie Dan in Real Life. I’d like a place like that.
Of course the problem with living in the center of Texas, is that you can’t do that. I could drive seven hours in any direction and still be in Texas (except towards the coast, then I’d be there in five hours). So I’ve always had this fascination with the East coast, where you can drive for a couple of hours and be in another state. Or ride a train to somewhere completely different. The train thing is particularly appealing.

By: Shana

Shana — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:49:49 +0000

Well, my books are set in the past and in London. I don’t think I would like to live 200 years ago or in London (too cold)! But I do have to put myself in my characters’ place. I try to feel the cold, to see the night sky, to visulaize the buildings (which is easy with a place like London, where so many of the old buildings are still there).

As far as my contemporaries, they were both set in Chicago. I think it almost took more research to set a story there than in historical London.

I like living in Texas. I’ve lived in the north as well and kind of consider myself more of a northerner, but I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like change. I’m happy to stay put!

By: kristan higgins

kristan higgins — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:44:56 +0000

San Francisco is a magical place. Yep, I could live there, too. I forgot to mention Montana…we spent a few days there this past year, and the natural beauty of the place…the scent of pine and the roaring rivers, the bald eagles everywhere…amazing.