23 Responses to “Bullet Points V”

1. Heather, I’ve known you almost 9 years and never knew why you had that eyebrow scar! Gosh, and here I was thinking you were the founding member of a gang.
   As far as a new name, now that I have uh, three…I suggest you come up with a strong last name to go with Heather. It gets confusing talking with booksellers, etc, with three last names…I can only imagine how it would be with three first names. Hmmm…how about Heather…Hunt?

   Okay, obviously I don’t have that edgy-mystery gene.

   Shelley

   by Shelley on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 am
   
   

2. Like the new blogspot, bummed about the old one. Especially the name. Loved the name. Loved loved loved the name.

   So now we have to re-name you. Can you at least keep Shawna? And you want it strong?This is gonna be hard.

   Shawna Cole, Shawna Blake, Avery Blake, Blake Avery…..oh, this IS hard!

   by debbie on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 am
   
   

3. And I remember you telling the story about that scar. Remember Stacey’s scar in the middle of her head that looked like a part down the middle? I’d like to see the stupid gangs do THAT!

   by debbie on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:58 am
   
   

4. TV set??? Heather got that scar in a barfight back in ‘89. Theo saw the whole thing happen. Heather didn’t start the fight, but she sure finished it. Vicious, vicious stuff.

   Shawna Youkilis–it rolls off the tongue.

   by Theo Epstein on May 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
   
   

5. I like the name Rula or Rue Adams. LOLOL

   by Pamela on May 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
   
   

6. *That stinks that you can’t use Shawna Avery…I loved the name =(

   *I want to go to Malice next year!!! But that many cozies under one roof may be more than I could handle LOL

   *Just finished reading Elizabeth Bevarly’s Fast and Loose, the first in her Kentucky Derby trilogy. I’m a Triple Crown fanatic. There has been only one Triple Crown in my lifetime, but I was less than a year old so I don’t really remember it LOL Hoping this is the year, especially with a filly in the running. Go Eight Belles!!!

   *In celebration of the Derby, I’m making a chocoalte chip nut pie tonight. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

   by Melissa on May 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
   
   

7. I forgot…love the cover!!! I must admit a big selling point for books with me is if an animal is on the cover!

   *Last night I was watching Animal Planet and they advertised the Meerkat Manor movie to premiere on AP May 25th! And Season 4 begins 6/6.

   by Melissa on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
   
   

8. I like Winifred. Go figure.

   See, I thought you were wearing your gang colors under that big fluffy coat at the MS Walk.

   by Wilfred Bereswill on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
   
   

9. Shelley, that’s funny you didn’t know. And “Heather” is apparently too soft. LOL.

   Deb, I know. I was attached to that name. The good news is that hopefully I can keep it for my women’s fic writing. And woo-woo on the “Blake” (as a last name). It’s the top contender right now! I’m taking your saying it as a sign. And I sometimes wonder what happened to Stacey. That was one heck of a scar!

   Theo, shhh. I think I like Shawna Varitek better.

   Pamela, do you ever watch iCarly by any chance? It’s a teen show on Nickelodeon. Well, anyway, they have this great evil character named Neville and he always tells Carly “You’ll rue the day!” “Let the rue-ing begin!”. LOL. It’s all I can think of when I hear Rue now.

   by Heather on May 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
   
   

10. Do I get a prize??

    by debbie on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
    
    

11. Melissa, I wish I could keep the name! Like I said, I’ve grown attached. And coming up with a new one is next to impossible. You’d think it would be easy. It’s not. Chocolate Chip Nut Pie. Sounds yummy!

    And you’re right about Malice–bad for the budget! But so much fun.

    I had to stop watching Meerkat Manor last season. It got way too depressing for me. But while in DC, Laura and I went to the zoo and I got to see a meerkat up close and personal! Very cool. I had to send a pic of one to my daughter–who, like me, had been a huge fan of the series, but also couldn’t take all the doom and gloom last season.

    by Heather on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
    
    

12. Ah, the Engineers who study, graduate, study, graduate, and go to work designing ‘effective use of available space’ to create airports!!! Think of all the money that could be saved by simply asking a few passengers. As a kid I flew through O’Hare between Alaska and Pennsylvania. 25 minutes to go from the far end of one a terminal to the other end of an opposite terminal. I made it, me and my asthma attack.

    Heather, truly enjoyed ‘volunteering’ at the panel you were doing on Sunday. Thanks.

    I come late to the ‘name’ thing, so don’t know any history. But you want a name of a strong woman, CONGOALIA BRECKENRIDGE. A ‘creation’ we JO’s gave birth to in Iceland. I’ll let your imaginations take it from there. :):)

    by Susan V.H. on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
    
    

13. Will, I have a Winifred in a book I’m working on. That’s got to count! And you need to keep the gang thing on the down-low. We MS walkers can be oh so dangerous.

    Deb, LOL! Sure. Hmm. Let’s see. You want a Shawna Avery tin of cinnamon hearts? A collector’s item for sure.

    by Heather on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
    
    

14. “Ah, the Engineers who study, graduate, study, graduate, and go to work designing ‘effective use of available space’ to create airports!!! ”

    Susan, not all of us Engineers are bad. We just blame those kinds of things on the architects.

    by Wilfred Bereswill on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
    
    

15. Very true, I was at odds as to who to blame:):):)-Architects or Engineers. Once at a work site a young lady came through measuring and such. When I asked her why, “I’m an engineer and doing a study on how to position everything for maximum efficiency”. Being the nosy parker I am, after a few minutes with me-telling her nothing she was doodling on her pad would either work or help, she walked away scratching her head!!:):):)

    When in doubt, ask the passengers, ‘actual’ workers, or those it will impact.

    Or more importantly-re Heather’s blog and the ‘name’ thing. Ask other writers/authors.:):):) My suggestion was simply another ‘nosy parker’.

    by Susan V.H. on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
    
    

16. I love cinnamon hearts! LOL

    by debbie on May 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
    
    

17. Names, names, names…Sophia Quinn, Soren Anderssen, Maire O’Sullivan, P. N. Sawyer

    On second thoughts, they do not sound suitable. But at least it was fun to make up a series of names…

    by Rudolf on May 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
    
    

18. My brother has a scar like yours from banging into his end table when he was a toddler. Same eye too. Maybe you should name yourself Avery Mead. (His name is Mead!) JB

    by JB on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
    
    

19. So, I’m curious…. why can’t you use the name?

    by Dani on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 pm
    
    

20. Hi Susan! Want to thank you again for the chocolate after the panel! Much needed sugar boost before my trek to the airport! If I’d been walking, it would have taken twenty minutes to get from one gate to another in Detroit, but I was running. In flip flops. Not fun. I was so cranky when they wouldn’t let me on the plane that was still sitting there! Ack.

    And I’m not sure who to blame, but someone should fix it! A tram or something. LOL on Nosy Parker. I do like the last name Parker, but used it in a series once, and that might be weird… And I’m thinking Congoalia might be a bit of a mouthful.

    by Heather on May 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
    
    

21. Rudolf, we must think alike. I’ve used Quinn and Sawyer in books. This might be part of the problem–I use all the good names I think of!

    JB, when I was in high school, it was SO COOL to have the same scar as Luke Perry. I’m thinking your brother might not have thought so. I like the name Mead–might have to use that in a book.

    Dani, the thing is the Nina books didn’t sell all that well. I know, shocking, right? So the new pub wants distance from that, so when major chains go to buy, they buy lots of the new books and not base it on old sales. Unfortunately, it’s the major chains that drive the sales.

    by Heather on May 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
    
    

22. Your Welcome on the ‘health food’,

    And Congoalia-well you said you wanted a ’strong’ sounding name. I migrated that to this ‘creature’ we formed at ‘AAH’ at the Officer’s Club in Keflavik Iceland. Doesn’t take much to entertain a bunch of Ensigns and 2nd Lt on the ‘rock’, especially when fueled with ‘combat’ rum and cokes. She was quite ’strong:):):)’. Around 200lbs, face like a mud post, probably missing a few teeth from too many bar fights, and we would envision her dancing on the floor-no doubt ALONE-, a beer perched on her rather extended waistline. And when ‘new meat’ would walk in she would yell! HEY, WANNNA ARM WRESTLE FOR A BEER , COME OVER HERE AND GIVE ‘US’ A KISSSSSS.

    Somehow, looking back, absolutely NOTHING you would be looking for:):):):).

    by Susan V.H. on May 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 am
    
    

23. That is so aggravsating, Heather. After all that work put into the new name—websites, blogs, etc. Good luck on the new name search.

    by Maggie on May 5th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
    
    

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