You’ve Got Valentines

“Oh, you really lucked out.”

“Huh?”

“You’ve got Valentine’s Day.”

“What? Oh, crap. That’s right. Thursday is Valentine’s Day. Crap.”

Such was the conversation between me and the hubby a couple days ago.

See, people think it’s easier when you’ve got a fixed theme to blog about. Not so, I’ve found. I mean, I could be the first person ever to blog about Peanut Butter and Its Many Uses to the Mystery Author. But Valentine’s Day?

It’s all been done before.

But if I skip it and obliviously pretend that I have no idea that everything I type today should be cupid and flowers, then I’m probably going to hear about it. From someone. At least once during the day.

I gave this a lot of thought. And came up with some interesting options. The possibilities I considered? You’ll find the Top Ten below.

Vote for your favorite and I promise I’ll blog about it when I have Valentine’s Day next. Uh, that will be 2013 but I know you all are loyal fans and will be still hanging around and checking out the Good Girls five years hence, am I right? For now, enjoy:

1) My Favorite Lubricant

2) Jailhouse Love

3) Things That Add Texture to Love Scenes - On and Off the Page

4) You Knew Birds Do It and Bees Do It - Now the Revealing Footage…

5) My Sexiest Socks

6) Foods of Passion and What to Do With Them

7) Mix Em Up: Great Couples from Literature Play Swinger

8) Summer of Love vs. Winter of Love (and What to Do About Frostbite in Sensitive Areas)

9) Hang the Cigarette! Exciting and Unusual Things to Do After the Main Event

10) Still Doing It After All These Years: Erotica for the Golden Anniversary

Happy Valentines Day!

12 Responses to “You’ve Got Valentines”

1. Well, since some of us claim to want to write or are writing or have been seen in the presence of writers…

   My vote is for:
   3) Things That Add Texture to Love Scenes - On and Off the Page

   And since I didn’t write last night, did anyone else see Project Runway?

   by Lynn on February 14th, 2008 at 7:29 am
   
   

2. No to Project Runway, but you’re the second person who’s mentioned it to me in the last twelve hours - must be something good going on.

   Any suggestions, Lynn, as to what to include on the Texture question? Something from the Runway? Yards of silk organza or some crazy spiked heels, maybe?

   by Regina Harvey on February 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am
   
   

3. Geez, Regina, you might have given us a little warning! I nearly choked on my bagel as I scrolled down and read #1.

   Okay, thank goodness for the water bottle that was so handy - my vote is for #7.

   (As for #3, Dana Stabenow is always good writing about Kate Shugack, and I’m waiting to see how Diana writes a more intense connection scene between Grace and Peter!)

   by Kate Hathway on February 14th, 2008 at 9:41 am
   
   

4. Kate - I think #7 is intriguing as well. Could be lots of fun.

   Sorry to cause bagel issues, but glad to get you all “choked up” on this sentimental day. Sigh.

   by Regina Harvey on February 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
   
   

5. Also can’t wait for the next Grace and Peter scene. Talk about sigh!

   by Regina Harvey on February 14th, 2008 at 10:19 am
   
   

6. Numbers 8 & 10 strike me as having the potential for sufficient tittilation to keep me aware of this blog until I turn 71 - now, can you remember to write something about those items when that time comes?

   by Bob on February 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
   
   

7. For someone whose mind only crawls from the gutter to remind itself that there is in fact an up to the down, I’m not sure what to do with all this.

   So many choices. So many innuendos. So many lurid possibilities.

   And we have to wait a year for any of them.

   Tease.

   by Stephen Blackmoore on February 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
   
   

8. I’ll take #7 too, please. And what’s this about a scene between Grace and Peter? Have some of you been privvy to new scenes? Do tell!

   by JennieB on February 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
   
   

9. Bob and Stephen - you’ll just have to wait - and it’s five years, Setephen sweetheart - the big Val Day ain’t on a Thursday again until 2013. Maybe I am a tease. Maybe I’ll just have to come up with another excuse for getting tawdry before then.

   by Regina Harvey on February 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
   
   

10. And JennieB - the fourth Poetic Death novel: Docketful of Poesy is due out in spring ‘09. A whole year to wait for more Peter and Grace! Talk about a tease!

    by Regina Harvey on February 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
    
    

11. Regina, yes, I know it’s coming next year. I was hoping that maybe one of you had been privvy to excerpts from the new book and could share some tidbits. (And why would you need an excuse for getting tawdry?)

    by JennieB on February 14th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
    
    

12. Texture to love scenes? Besides the melted chocolate and whipped creme mentioned earlier, maybe the feel of the place either the bed filled with down pillows and satin sheets that have been worn down over the years to the softness of rose petels or the wood grain of the old fashion kitchen table.

    by Lynn on February 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
    
    

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