The Uber Abode : Talk with the Authors

sobbie : Lori is off writing love scenes, she will be here soon
cbzeer : oh, goodie!
savmut: love scenes? Goody. So how's everyone?
sobbie : I told her she needed more practical experience
Lori L. Lake : don't be telling ALL my little secrets!
sobbie : Hi Lori
savmut: lol. Hi Lori
Lori L. Lake : Well, howdy everyone. Figures----Sue deserts me in my hour of need.
savmut: lol She knows you can do fine without her.
Lori L. Lake : Michelle, how are you?
savmut: So How are you doing Lori?
savmut: I'm okay.
savmut: Hi Gerda
Lori L. Lake : Hey, I see aquila, Carrie, redback and Michelle.....I can understand aquila being here, but how come the rest of you aren't out buying lottery tickets?
gerda24 : hello everybody
Lori L. Lake : I am doing really well on this lovely day in MN. Hey Gerda!
aquila1nz : lottery tickets?
savmut: I don't buy lottery tickets, plus the line ups are too long.
Lori L. Lake : Yeah, it's up to $280 million here in the US. I have been spending a little time working on a love scene today. My partner spent three bucks on the lottery.
cbzeer : I'd hate to waste good beer money on lotto tiks
Lori L. Lake : Ha!
aquila1nz : sheesh, we get excited if it reaches $5m here
savmut: lol hehe there is that Carrie
savmut: Hi Trev
trev_08873 : hi
Lori L. Lake : Yes, Hi Trev. How are you today?
sobbie : welcome trev glad you found this one
cbzeer : IE is the sound you make when your computer craps out on you... AIEEEEEEEE
trev_08873 : I went to the same place
sobbie : lol
savmut: hehe
sobbie : yep I have been yelling that all afternoon
trev_08873 : Hi Lori - just got back from the beach
Lori L. Lake : Beach? What beach?
trev_08873 : jersey shore
Lori L. Lake : Ahhhh.....so when I read what you write, I should make sure you sound like a Jerseyite, huh?
trev_08873 : no I have a mid west accent
cbzeer : awful long drive to go to the beach, huh?
Lori L. Lake : People from the midwest don't have accents!
cbzeer : HA
cbzeer : mid westerners have accents
trev_08873 : LOL
sobbie : Yeah right
cbzeer : Texans' don't *g*
sobbie : sure Carrie
savmut: Texans' *don't*? okay...
sobbie : and Canadians' don't?
savmut: I never said I didn't have an accent.
Lori L. Lake smiles happily
sobbie : ya all sound funny to me
Lori L. Lake : Yeah, I love how Yahoo keeps making everyone run in and out of the room!
aquila1nz : good exercise i guess
sobbie : I was running from you Lori
Lori L. Lake : Who can make the sun shine, sprinkle it with dew......hi Candyman
savmut: yes Yahoo does. It likes the revolving door effect in the chat rooms...come in, go out repeat until frustrated.
Lori L. Lake : Sue, you gotta run a hell of a lot faster than that to elude me!
sobbie : sounds like sex to me savmut
candyman155us : hey how are you?
Lori L. Lake : I'm in a rare good mood.
savmut: Hi Candyman.
Lori L. Lake : Ask Carrie---aren't I usually and owly, cranky, crabby witch?
candyman155us : hi savmut
cbzeer : uh, no.... not really. I think you're more the perky type
sobbie : oh the visual you just gave me Carrie
Lori L. Lake : PERKY! For gawd'sake---not perky!
cbzeer : yup...'fraid so.... very perky
Lori L. Lake : Now, look, you've offended Redback, and we are really going to miss her, too!
savmut: Why not Perky Lori? It could be a good thing
sobbie : hehe redback will be back
Lori L. Lake : Perky reminds me of my high school typing teacher.
cbzeer : *snicker*
sobbie : those ausies are a strange bunch
savmut: ahh okay,
Lori L. Lake : She was always speaking in this up kind of voice, and all her sentences ended sounding like a question.
sobbie : ewwwww
Lori L. Lake : Hey, I have to defend Aussies.....some of my best friends are Aussies. MaryD for instance.
redbackredback : hey I'm not strange!
Lori L. Lake : And Redback. She's not strange!
sobbie : oh Hi redback
Lori L. Lake : ....although she's been running in and out of the room like she has ants in her pants.
savmut: That's what she tells us Lori, we aren't a hundred percent sure though.
sobbie : nah thats kangaroos
redbackredback : lol......
cbzeer : I thought she was just happy to see us - now I find out it's marsupials
Lori L. Lake : Good job spelling there Carrie.
savmut: lol
cbzeer : :)
sobbie : lol
Lori L. Lake : wish I could figure out how to make that stupid face thing. I'd be emoting all over the place if I could make it work---seeing as I'm so perky and all.
cbzeer : so, Lori... I hear you're writing a love scene?
trev_08873 : where are the smiley guys
Lori L. Lake : Yeah, it's real perky, too.
sobbie : So Lori are you EVER going to finish UTG?
cbzeer : I use : followed by )
sobbie : or a semi colon followed by )
Lori L. Lake : UTG----it's sooooo close.
Lori L. Lake : I have been working on it every free chance I get for weeks and weeks.
sobbie : isn't that what Dez just said to you?
Lori L. Lake :)
Lori L. Lake : :)
Lori L. Lake : LOL
sobbie : hey congratulations you finally got a smiley
trev_08873 : my beach face
Lori L. Lake : Okay, I am done cracking up here.....are you speaking about Dez and the smiley or what?
cbzeer : I just bet Dez has a smiley right now
sobbie : hehe,,, um I was referring to the love seen and Dez saying she was sooooo close
Lori L. Lake : Sue, I knew exactly what you referred to.
sobbie : LOL
savmut: lol
Lori L. Lake : Carrie, she doesn't have a smiley yet because I haven't finished the scene yet.
sobbie : lol
sobbie : hi arabian
cbzeer : ah... so, how much further do you anticipate going with UTG?
Lori L. Lake : At this point, UTG is longer than GUN SHY, and I'm not done.
sobbie : hehe
cbzeer : cool... I was always upset that GS ended
Lori L. Lake : Hello Arabian.
cbzeer : and I've read it about 7-8 times already
cbzeer : can't wait to get it in book form
Lori L. Lake : Still looking for a love scene, huh?
sobbie : I don't read books
Lori L. Lake : sobbie reads tomes
sobbie : what is a tome?
aquila1nz : a very thick book with no pictures
sobbie : oh ok
sobbie : but i like pictures
Lori L. Lake : I sent part 5 of UTG over to Red at MaryD's site this a.m. and I am waiting to see it show up today or tomorrow.
Lori L. Lake waves at everyone in the room
aquila1nz : oh goodie
Lori L. Lake : Hi Arabian!!
trev_08873 : How many parts do you think it will end up being?
cbzeer : do you know how many parts UTG will have?
Lori L. Lake : I am glad none of you read it before you got here today.
cbzeer : great minds, trev *g*
Lori L. Lake : Trev and Carrie--wow! Did you conspire on that one?
trev_08873 : ;-0
sobbie : 49 parts
sobbie : I have
Lori L. Lake : Not quite 49. Let's see.....through part 5, I have put out 133 pages so far. I have over 250 written.
aquila1nz : wow
Lori L. Lake : I am not sure how many it will end up being since I have some gaps here and there throughout pages 200-288. I just checked. I am actually on page 288.
trev_08873 : any plans for after UTG
sobbie : sex finally on page 288
savmut: wow.
Lori L. Lake : Yes! There is a part 3. I think I will call it HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL. And don't listen to sobbie. I think there's a love scene MUCH earlier!
sobbie : where?
trev_08873 : very good title
cbzeer : you mentioned that you're glad none of us have read this part - wanna share?
aquila1nz : cool
sobbie : page 287?
Lori L. Lake : Before I write anymore about Dez and Jay, I am going to write another book---non-Uber.
savmut: catchy title.
Lori L. Lake : I can't think of any other "GUN" titles though.
trev_08873 : how about the flying gun
savmut: Gun Smoke? Naw that's a movie
sobbie : "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me"
Lori L. Lake : Part 5, Carrie, is a tough one. A lot of stuff falls apart, and I ended on a bit of a cliff hanger.
Lori L. Lake : Say, Sue?? I thought you told me you were shy?
cbzeer : Eeeek! glad I'm waiting for a bit - don't think I could handle the suspense
aquila1nz : oh dear
sobbie : um... ducking my head.... um yeah
savmut: busted
Lori L. Lake : All I can say is that I am slaving away to connect up the parts well enough so that next weekend, Part 6 will fix that.
cbzeer : whew
Lori L. Lake : But then, part 7 will probably un-fix it.
cbzeer : maybe I'll wait until next week to start reading it - although it's about to kill me
cbzeer : what???
trev_08873 : Lori - how do you know so much about police work
sobbie : lol
Lori L. Lake : Luckily part 8 will straighten that around---but then there's part 9.....
Lori L. Lake : Trev, I research like crazy. I also have a beta-reader who's a cop.
sobbie : she said the "S" word
Lori L. Lake : not THAT straight.
sobbie : lol
savmut: . :)
sobbie : so where do you work?
Lori L. Lake : I wrote this whole big scene, Trev, and turned it over to my cop friend, and I swear, it's very humbling to find out how much I don't know about police work.
Lori L. Lake : I work in a government office which is part of the county prosecutor's office. That really helped me a lot with all the court-related stuff I wrote in RICOCHET IN TIME.
cbzeer : a fabulous read, by the way, Lori...
sobbie : I guess I will have to break down and read a real book, someday
Lori L. Lake : I think I have to start ignoring Sue!
cbzeer : *snicker*
sobbie : lol
Lori L. Lake : Thanks for the compliment Carrie. RICOCHET took me a long time to write, and it was actually my first novel.
cbzeer : really?
sobbie : can you tell us what it is about
Lori L. Lake : Yeah, I learned a lot writing it.
aquila1nz : yeah
cbzeer : it was very well written
Lori L. Lake : RIT came about because I read an article in the local paper about two women getting run over by some jerk.
Lori L. Lake : A day or so later, more info came out that one of them died.
Lori L. Lake : I got to thinking, what would happen if these two women, riding a motorcycle together, were lovers?
Lori L. Lake : And what if this was a hate crime---a gay bashing?
Lori L. Lake : And then the character of Dani starting coming to me in bits and pieces. I dreamed of her, I felt this heavy grief, I just couldn't let it go. So I wrote the first scene about the villain, Geoffrey Grimes, meeting them in a bar where they had stopped for pop on a hot day.
Lori L. Lake : He hassles them, and they have to defend themselves a bit to get away. He follows them though.
Lori L. Lake : In the first 10 pages, it's pretty intense. Dani, the main character, and her lover, Meg, are terribly wounded.
Lori L. Lake : Actually, Meg dies.......I'm not giving away anything here because you know from the back of the book that that happens.
Lori L. Lake : The story is of Dani's fight to bring the attacker to justice---and to connect with new people. She's been a loner all this time, and she and Meg are only just new lovers.
cbzeer : it certainly was an emotional book - I cried several times. Felt like as the reader, I was the one going through all that. I've only read this one about 4 times, so far *g* .
Lori L. Lake : After a kind of rocky start, it gets gradually less pain-filled. Don't you think that is so, Carrie?
Lori L. Lake : How the heck do you have time to read things multiple times? I've only read Destiny's Crossing 2x!!
aquila1nz : ok now i have to get a credit card
cbzeer : it has a lot of hope in it - finding and making new friends, and of allowing someone in
cbzeer : well, DC was a monster *g*
Lori L. Lake : If you live in NZ--and if I were rich--I would like to deliver it to you Aquila!
cbzeer : but, since I was an editor on RIT, I HAD to reread the thing since I'd get caught up in the story
Lori L. Lake : UTG will be bigger than DC, Carrie.
cbzeer : WHAT??
cbzeer : you trying to take away my monster status, Lori? *g*
Lori L. Lake : It's already bigger! And the damn thing won't quit!!
cbzeer : heheheh
Lori L. Lake : You have monster status without even writing!
cbzeer : that's just my big feet *g*
cbzeer : how many pages are you shooting for on UTG?
Lori L. Lake : I'm just shooting to somehow or other find the end!
cbzeer : put your hands behind you, Lori... you'll find it *wink*
Lori L. Lake : Very funny.
cbzeer : :)
savmut: :)
trev_08873 is back.
trev_08873 : can you give us some background on how you developed your main characters for GS and UTG
cbzeer : you said that you're going to work on a non-Uber, next? what's that all about?
Lori L. Lake : I'll start with Trev's question, CC--and come back to you.
cbzeer : k
Lori L. Lake : Before Missy Good started writing the Dar/Kerry series, I knew I wanted t write in the present---not X/G time.
Lori L. Lake : So I was thinking that if X&G lived now, they'd most likely be cops.
Lori L. Lake : I didn't really style Dez and Jaylynn so much after X&G except that Dez had a heart ache she was hiding.
Lori L. Lake : I just started on the premise that two cops, riding together, who grow close, will have problems because of the personal relationship.
Lori L. Lake : They just took off from there---big time. I felt half the time like I was channeling the characters---Luella too.
cbzeer : I love Luella
candyman155us : do you ever base any of your characters o people that you know?
Lori L. Lake : I wrote the first scene in Oct 1998---the whole rest of the book flowed like crazy and was done by May.
Lori L. Lake : No, the characters aren't really anyone I know.
sobbie : wow that was quick
trev_08873 : how did you come up with name Jaylynn
Lori L. Lake : They all have things in common with me.
Lori L. Lake : Jaylynn----I don't know. Someone at work had a grandchild named Jayden.....I was playing around with that.
Lori L. Lake : I was actually done with it sooner than May, but I hadn't had it all beta-read.
Lori L. Lake : I don't write like most "normal" writers. What happens is that I wrote scenes, and then I have to sew them together.
Lori L. Lake : I actually don't even know where a book is going. I am writing - next - a book about an electrician/rigger/roadie on a pop/country tour. I have no idea where the hell it will go.
Lori L. Lake : It's a bit maddening at times not to be able to work from an outline, but I have sort of learned to trust myself.
sobbie : do you have a musical background?
Lori L. Lake : Yes, I play guitar, sing a bit, and am totally nuts about music. I have about 1500 CD's and I watch MTV and VH-1 and GAC for 30-60 minutes every morning when I walk on the treadmill.
cbzeer : your secondary characters are just as real as your main characters - especially in Ricochet in Time. Does that come easy to you?
sobbie : wow, I don't ever do anything with music
savmut: 1500 CD's. wow. I have a small collection in comparison.
Lori L. Lake : In RICOCHET, there are two really important characters---Estelline and Ruth who are in their 60's. I love them so much that I may write their story, too.
Lori L. Lake : Hi Jo.
cbzeer : Oh! I hope so!
cbzeer : I love them!
Lori L. Lake : I -- apparently -- love old ladies (which is probably good since I am soon going to be one!)
cbzeer : *snicker* yeah, right. You're SO over the hill
cbzeer : NOT!
sobbie : how old?
Lori L. Lake : I really admire the strength and the tenacity of older lesbians. Just think what they had to go through? They didn't have anything like what we young'uns have, and it took a lot of bravery for women to choose to be with one another.
Lori L. Lake : I'll be 42 in February.
Lori L. Lake : That is over 290 in dog years.
cbzeer : heheheh
sobbie : but you aren't a dog
Lori L. Lake : woof
sobbie : the keyboard doesn't work for the paws
js82640 : uhh... think that translation calls for division rather than multiplying.... *G*
Lori L. Lake : My partner is the math expert, not me.
trev_08873 : I have to sign off - Lori - thanks for taking the time to chat and thank you for all your hard work and bringing us such great stories,
Lori L. Lake : You are welcome Trev. My pleasure!!!
Lori L. Lake : What else would y'all like to know?
sobbie : do you really lift weights and body build?
Lori L. Lake : Oh yeah!
Lori L. Lake : Sure you want to get me started on that topic?
sobbie : sure
Lori L. Lake : I'm a power lifter, though, not a body builder. BBer's don't get to eat like I want to!
sobbie : lol
savmut: :)
sobbie : you don't like the nuts and twigs?
Lori L. Lake : I am 29 days away from the national bench press competition, and on Nov. 4th I do a local meet to qualify for power lifting nationals which are in February. Yes, I like the nuts and twigs.
Lori L. Lake : I have been trying to lose weight. Every time I want to eat my favorite stuff (chocolate and Cheezits) I try to go to the computer and write a scene on UTG.
candyman155us : how did you get started with lifting?
savmut: whoa. Have you been to nationals before?
Lori L. Lake : I had abdominal surgery in 1996 and back then, I was up to 248 pounds. So I needed to lose weight and took up some light weight lifting and cardio. I loved it and I lost a ton of weight in the subsequent year.
Lori L. Lake : yes, I went to Nationals this last January and got second place in the masters division. I squatted 303#, bench pressed 187.5#, and dead lifting 347#. It was absolutely terrifying! I think I am going to have Dez take it up in book 3.
sobbie : cool
aquila1nz : cool
savmut: cool, but one questions...dead lifting?
Lori L. Lake : My coach is a 28 year old guy who noticed me in the gym. He is a dead lift expert. Michelle, are you wondering WHAT dead lifting is?
sobbie : lifting dead bodies from her trunk
savmut: yeah what is dead lifting.
Lori L. Lake : I don't keep dead bodies in the trunk in the summer. Too smelly. Only in the winter.
sobbie : lol
savmut: lol so it is lifting dead people, all get cleared outta the trunk in March right?
Lori L. Lake : Dead lifting is where you walk up to a barbell, squat down, grab the bar, and just haul it up until you are standing fully erect and your shoulders are back.
Lori L. Lake : Around here, March can get pretty warm some years.
savmut: ahh okay.
sobbie : isn't that tough on your knees?
Lori L. Lake : Nope. Doesn't bother my knees a bit. I have to be careful of my lower back though. It's hardest on that part of me.
sobbie : all I can say is "owwie"
Lori L. Lake : I have 3 great passions in my life---1 person and 2 things, that is. Diane, power lifting, and writing take up a tremendous amount of my time.
sobbie : well writing doesn't hurt does it?
Lori L. Lake : Actually, Diane wishes she could have more of my time. I am often communing with the computer or else lifting. I would like to quit my job and write full-time.
savmut: a bit of pain is a good thing, though especially for something you love to do
Lori L. Lake : Writing is tougher on me than lifting! All that sitting is way hard on me.
cbzeer : I think we'd all benefit from you writing full time *g*
sobbie : YES
Lori L. Lake : You're just saying that, Carrie, because then I'd have time to email with you during the day when you have writer's block!
Lori L. Lake : Wanna hear about my other novels in progress?
cbzeer : YES!!!
savmut: ohh yeah yeah. we wanna hear
sobbie : hehe you email me all the time during the day
aquila1nz : of course
sobbie : YES
candyman155us : yes
js82640 : yes
Lori L. Lake : After I finish my rigger/roadie one, I have to get back to ISOLATION.
cbzeer : what's that?
sobbie : where they put people like you in prison Carrie
Lori L. Lake : At the heart of it, it is really a love story---actually a lot of love stories, because it has a huge sprawling plot and a ton of characters.
aquila1nz : very cool
Lori L. Lake : The main two who I, so far, love the most, are Jenn and Christine. It takes place about a decade after a nuclear terrorist explosion/attack has left the middle of the country---sorry to the coasts.
Lori L. Lake : The people surviving in the middle of the US are mostly underground.
sobbie : cool
Lori L. Lake : Many other countries are also affected, but it's the US that is crippled. It has become a scavenger kind of society
savmut: cool
cbzeer : sounds about right
sobbie : ooww rats and bats and other rodents
Lori L. Lake : Christine has lost everyone. Jenn has lost no one. Jenn is fearless---tall, slim, blonde, blue-eyed---Nordic-looking.
Lori L. Lake : Christine is small, dark, stocky, and scared from radiation poisoning. They meet when Christine emerges from underground to help Jenn after she's been shot.
Lori L. Lake : There's a lot more than that---and yes, I oughta put a lot of bats and rodents in, huh? I know how you love 'em Sue.
cbzeer : sounds a bit like something I had to read in high school - Fahrenheit 451, almost
cbzeer : really love stuff like that
sobbie : hey bat saving was fun
sobbie : especially naked bat saving
aquila1nz : sounds like children of the dust
Lori L. Lake : The organization that runs the region in ISOLATION is still revealing itself. IT's regional government -- and warlords.
sobbie : ohh fun
savmut: ohh
Lori L. Lake : I'll have to keep working on it to discover more......I never know what the heck is going to happen until I write it.
sobbie : lol
cbzeer : so you don't work from an outline, right? Just piece together scenes?
Lori L. Lake : One of you asked if I ever wrote about PEOPLE I know-----how about things that have happened to me? That bat story was right out of my own life.....and I played the Dez part while Diane got to be Jaylynn.
Lori L. Lake : Outline? Ha! I wish.
sobbie : lol you are so macho, bats in plastic bags squeaking at ya
Lori L. Lake : I wish I could write from an outline, but every time I try, the story just veers off in some other direction. My mind is apparently some sort of weird thing.
Lori L. Lake : I couldn't throw that bat out the door fast enough!
sobbie : um no comment
cbzeer : do you take notes, so that if you have a good idea, you can utilize it later?
candyman155us : how hard is it to sew the scenes together once you write them?
Lori L. Lake : Yes, I write notes all the time. I also list stuff at the bottom of my Word file that I think needs to be included.
Lori L. Lake : I have all sorts of scenes and phrases and conversations lying all over the place.
sobbie : sounds like a real obstacle course you have going
cbzeer : have you ever written something, posted it, then wanted to take it back?
cbzeer : like a particular scene, or character?
Lori L. Lake : I look at it as a puzzle I am trying to resolve.
aquila1nz : i gotta go, thanks Lori this was very interesting
Lori L. Lake : Hmmm.....no, I am too careful with what I post to have any regrets. I have usually gone over it a million times.
Lori L. Lake : I like all my characters.....even the villains. I just LOVE Nielsen---damn he is easy! He is so single-mindedly stupid. Wait'll you see what happens with him in part 5!
savmut: :)
Lori L. Lake : Bye Aquila! See ya around.
sobbie : I love it when Nielsen gets it
aquila1nz : if you ever win the lottery and make it to Auckland look me up
Lori L. Lake : I would love to!!
aquila1nz : :)
Lori L. Lake : Sue!!! Don't be giving any of the plot away! Not that you know what happens.
sobbie : not giving plot away, just saying Nielson gets it a few times in gun shy
sobbie : yeah backing and filling
Lori L. Lake : he better get it in UTG too----that's in the outline.
sobbie : besides isn't this a PWP
Lori L. Lake : PWP??
sobbie : plot what plot--- pure sex
sobbie : oh thats right you don't write sex scenes
Lori L. Lake : Anyone who reads my stuff can't be reading it for the sex!
savmut: :) Are you trying to give Lori a Hint?
Lori L. Lake : I don't write sex scenes---not very well anyway---I write love scenes.
sobbie : hehe
Lori L. Lake : Day, my RIT editor, has been doing more than hinting. Barb, my GS editor, has hinted.
sobbie : but the put slot A into tab B stories are so fun
Lori L. Lake : Everyone tells me to let loose and get something down and dirty in there.
savmut: well...two cops, handcuffs...it could be done... :)
Lori L. Lake : You know, UTG is already waaaay over-bloated. No need to add a bunch more of slot/tab stuff.
sobbie : lol
savmut: :)
Lori L. Lake : I feel too voyeuristic to barge in to the most intimate parts of J & D's lives. They deserve just a little privacy, you know!
Lori L. Lake : I'm already excavating from their poor spinning little brains.
cbzeer : I know what you mean
Lori L. Lake : Hey--yeah! Carrie writes the same way I do!
cbzeer : *gulp*
cbzeer : me?
sobbie : well maybe not the "same"
savmut: Carrie you okay?
cbzeer : uh-huh
Lori L. Lake : In RICOCHET, I have a part where Dani listens to Melissa Etheridge's THE LETTING GO. I got permission to use it.
sobbie : her characters are Texans and yours are mid westerners
Lori L. Lake : We're in the same time zone!
cbzeer : heheheh
sobbie : hey I know, you need to put J and D into cowboy hats instead of cop hats
savmut: :)
Lori L. Lake : Anyway, part of the agreement for using the lyric was that I have to send MLE a copy of RICOCHET. Anyone think she'll read it?
sobbie : wow
cbzeer : I bet she does
Lori L. Lake : Jay would look very cute in cowboy boots and hat. Dez would be uncomfy.
cbzeer : it's an awesome story
sobbie : should be good
savmut: yeah bet she does.
Lori L. Lake : She could play the part of Dani.
sobbie : um who is Melissa Ethridge?
cbzeer : EEEP!
Lori L. Lake : Are you taunting me, Sue? Or have you had your head in a hole for the last 14 years?
cbzeer : you've got to be kidding me!
savmut: She's a singer...really good singer, I'll lend you a CD, or five.
sobbie : hole in the head
Lori L. Lake : MELISSA is a goddess!
cbzeer : awesome singer
cbzeer : incredible person
sobbie : I haven't listened to ANY music since I was in college
savmut: Has anyone read her Bio?
Lori L. Lake : I heard her on the Grammy's in 1988 and swooned. She's got a voice almost as deep as Dez's.
sobbie : you like deep voices?
Lori L. Lake : I read an excerpt of her Bio. Don't you wanna smack her ex?
cbzeer : yup
savmut: yeah first time I actually wanted to list to music was her singing.
Lori L. Lake : Yes, deep voices are sexy.
savmut: yeah.
sobbie : be quiet Michelle
cbzeer : *ahem* I have a fairly deep voice *wink*
Lori L. Lake : I don't. Mine is mid-range. It's my little cross to bear.
sobbie : I get called sir to my face, very deep voice
Lori L. Lake : I can get some volume going though. *g*
cbzeer : you perky chicks always can get volume *G*
sobbie : hehe
Lori L. Lake : I get called sir to my face, tall and very broad shoulders.
Lori L. Lake : I am NOT perky!!!
savmut: LOL
sobbie : well they don't look at me they just hear me talk
Lori L. Lake : CC, when I am done crushing your tiny little pinhead, we'll see whose perky.
cbzeer : perky, perky, perky
sobbie : hehe
Lori L. Lake : Jo? You still out there?
cbzeer : I'm scared, Lori.. *g*
js82640 : yeah
Lori L. Lake : You should be!
sobbie : Jo hides in the background
cbzeer : AJ will protect me, remember *G*
Lori L. Lake : I don't want her to feel left out.
Lori L. Lake : I could crush AJ with one hand.
cbzeer : HA!
sobbie : uh oh
Lori L. Lake : Of course, I would never need to because she is a perfect gentlewoman.
cbzeer : heheheheheh
cbzeer : perky
Lori L. Lake : Hey, I have another book to tell you about.
cbzeer : cool!
sobbie : cool
Lori L. Lake : Haven't come up with a name for it yet. It's about this young woman named Blaze. She's spent half of a 9 year sentence in prison.
cbzeer : oooh
sobbie : ohhhhhhh WIP my favorite
Lori L. Lake : She was the unwitting driver in a convenience store holdup---her brother did it and shot the clerk.
cbzeer : *snicker*
cbzeer : how old is she?
Lori L. Lake : He got shot by the cops and died. She got sent up the river.
Lori L. Lake : At the time when she is going to be paroled, she'll be around 30.
cbzeer : oooh
cbzeer : sounds really good, Lori
Lori L. Lake : She has been a chat buddy with a woman who is a cop. She doesn't tell the cop she is in jail. The cop sends some friends out her way to pick her up.
Lori L. Lake : On the way across the state, they break down, and these guys terrorize them.
Lori L. Lake : When one of the two women gets shot, Blaze has to figure out how to get help by walking out.
Lori L. Lake : All together, there are the two women and their 12-year-old daughter, and Blaze. So it's an adventure/action kind of thing.
cbzeer : cool
savmut: cool. Sound interesting
sobbie : sounds really good
Lori L. Lake : Fortunately, it ought to come in under 100,000 words! I gotta find some shorter tales to tell!
sobbie : hehe
savmut: :) lol
sobbie : I like long stories
sobbie : the longer the better
cbzeer : your stories are just the right length, Lori
Lori L. Lake : Thanks for the compliment!Then there's The Fourth Option, which is about a woman and her father. It's my first foray into a male point-of-view
cbzeer : ooh
Lori L. Lake : I mean, I have written some brief POV from men, but not as extensive as this one.
Lori L. Lake : I guess I like older men as characters too. He's in his 60's.
cbzeer : I would have never figured you for that, Lori *g*
sobbie : lol
Lori L. Lake : Those are what I have 50-150 pages written on. I have some other stuff in notes and brief scenes, but not really developing as much. Men ARE interesting characters, though in some ways, they seem foreign to me.
sobbie : oh ok
Lori L. Lake : I think I have enough material here to last a very, very long time.
Lori L. Lake : I need a benefactor to underwrite my writing. *g*
sobbie : sounds like it
cbzeer : I for one am very thankful - love to read your stuff, Lori
sobbie : I am broke cant help ya out there
Lori L. Lake : Likewise, Carrie.
Lori L. Lake : Don't worry. I am going to win the lottery tonight, and then I'll send you a whole sock of dough.
sobbie : but I did buy a powerball ticket so maybe I will win the 300 mil
Lori L. Lake : If you win, can you send up just enough money to keep me going until my books start paying off?
sobbie : sure
savmut: :)
Lori L. Lake : Yeah, Michelle. I can see why you'd be happy!
savmut: who me? no reason. I may end up caving and getting a ticket now though. everyone seems to have one.
Lori L. Lake : You can line your shoe with it or roll a cigarette or something. Our chances of winning are 80 mil to one!
savmut: :) heh yeah but he there still is a chance
sobbie : sounds like good odds to me
Lori L. Lake : As I sit here in my den, the most delicious smell of baked chicken is wafting into the room. Diane is in making me dinner. Isn't she just the best?
cbzeer : yep
Lori L. Lake : I like to cook----I like to cook like Luella cooks
sobbie : i hate to cook
sobbie : so I eat out every meal
Lori L. Lake : Even breakfast?
savmut: I cook, but not for myself. It's just not something I can do for one.
sobbie : well yeah, but I only eat one meal a day so i guess it is breakfast lunch and dinner
Lori L. Lake : I think I need to go check out the dinner. You guys are all invited over, 'kay?
sobbie : hmm 3 day road trip for dinner
sobbie : sounds easy
Lori L. Lake : I can't believe how fast two hours whipped by. You all made me laugh a lot. Thanks.
sobbie : Thank you for coming and sharing this time with us Lori
Lori L. Lake : Sue, you can stay over and have breakfast too. We have a fully appointed guest room.
sobbie : lol
Lori L. Lake : Hey, this was fun! Thanks for the good questions and for listening.
cbzeer : thanks for sharing your stories and ideas with us, Lori
Lori L. Lake : My pleasure!
candyman155us : thank you and good luck.
js82640 : look forward to new books...
sobbie : Yeah get part 6 out soon
Lori L. Lake : Cool! Thanks for the good luck wishes and yes! Check out the books! They are edited beautifully. Just ask Carrie!
savmut: thanks for coming out Lori
Lori L. Lake : After dinner I will work on Part 6. I will keep you all posted. Good night!
sobbie : Night Lori
savmut: g'night
candyman155us : night
cbzeer : good night, Lori
redbackredback : good night......