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I have an idea.

How about a live question and answer event with an author. I thought that we could find a victim... no.... author and at a pre arranged time and date I would open a thread, ask him/her some pre selected questions then open a live debate. What do you think?

Any author that would like to be our guinea pig?

me. Me. I love being experimented on;)

Yep, Good one; go with it.
How relevant would it be to people who hadn't read any of the author's work though? Steve is an obvious one but he's asked and answered a lot on his author thread and in the In The Blood discussions. Do we need to have a few more of our 'own' authors as group reads first?
('Our' authors - this group's like Royston Vasey - you'll never leave!)

Shaun wrote: "me. Me. I love being experimented on;)"

Experimented on? I've read one of your books - it'll be with a scalpel, no doubt!

Ingnite wrote: "Yep, Good one; go with it.
How relevant would it be to people who hadn't read any of the author's work though? Steve is an obvious one but he's asked and answered a lot on his author thread and..."

Are you local?

Ingnite wrote: "Yep, Good one; go with it.
How relevant would it be to people who hadn't read any of the author's work though?"

I'm guessing that even if you've not read an authors work, there still might be generic questions that people might like to ask. And other questions could be spurred during the event that are posed by the questions and answers being given.

Ingnite wrote: "Experimented on? I've read one of your books - it'll be with a scalpel, no doubt!"

Lol.

Shaun wrote: "me. Me. I love being experimented on;)"

You'll have to come to my room...lol.

Vanessa wrote: "Shaun wrote: "me. Me. I love being experimented on;)"

You'll have to come to my room...lol."

Don't tempt me ;)

Shaun wrote: "Vanessa wrote: "Shaun wrote: "me. Me. I love being experimented on;)"

You'll have to come to my room...lol."

Don't tempt me ;)"

OK...I'll stick to giving only your books a plug!
;0)

Pmsl! Rofl!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vanessa wrote: "OK...I'll stick to giving only your books a plug!"

The dirty minds will be whirring at that one. Lol

*whir*

MWHAHAHAHAHA ! Is there actually a thread where everyone's kept to a serious conversation?

Yep
One.
The Georgette Heyer thread. Who is going to go in and remedy that serious oversight?

I believe every thread goes over the edge pretty quickly. MUCH more fun than on-topic conversations :D

Patti (P E) wrote: "Yep
One.
The Georgette Heyer thread. Who is going to go in and remedy that serious oversight?"

Surely there is more than one..............

probably not. What shall I go and add?

Start talking about food. Or handbags. They're fairly popular themes.

Food - not a good topic for me - I'm good at burning it.
Handbags - nope a carrier bag serves the same purpose & costs less :)
But I have an idea....

Ah I've just figured it out. GH books don't have sex in them so Vanessa isn't interested... ;)

Yes, Geoff, I'm local - and I have twelvety precious things!

Jay-me (Janet) wrote: "Food - not a good topic for me - I'm good at burning it.
Handbags - nope a carrier bag serves the same purpose & costs less :)
But I have an idea...."

Careful Janet, talk like that will get you ostrichsized.

I think a live Q&A session would be interesting.Could I suggest posting the Author's name a couple of weeks in advance,then if like me you have them on your TBR list it would give you the opportunity to read their book before the session if you so wished.

Sounds like fun!

Maybe we should do it with the members as well, maybe some of us would quite like their 5 minutes of fame too ...

Lorraine wrote: "Maybe we should do it with the members as well, maybe some of us would quite like their 5 minutes of fame too ..."

Is this more budget cuts? I thought everyone was entitled to 15 minutes of fame ...

Hahahahaha I think it would be nice to do a Q&A for readers too. Turn the spotlight on them for a change!

Nah, was being my usual pessimist, don't think I'd have enough to say to cover 6 minutes lol !

I think a Q&A with Vanessa would be very enlightening.

Steve wrote: "I think a Q&A with Vanessa would be very enlightening."

Too right, and I think it'd be totally hilarious !

I have to agree with you there, Steve!

I would have to turn the over 18 flag on.

maybe an over-25 flag needed...

Is there a flag for those of us who have led very sheltered lives? if not perhaps you should design one Simon.
Wouldn't do for any of us to go into a swoon!!!

Don't worry, Anita. If you do swoon, we're all here to catch you.

Thanks Patti, nice soft landing I hope.

Anita, what are you implying?

Patti said you would all be there to catch me, there must be quite a bit of padding between all of you, you wouldn't think of moving at the last momment would you D.d? no you wouldn't be that mean, would you?

Me? Move? As if!

I trust you D.d.

Was there any more thought on the live event?

Sorry, Shaun. Between Simon's SAP stuff and my volunteer stuff, we've not discussed it this week. Hopefully we can sort it this weekend.

I am just bumping this for further consideration. Sorry, I have not been keeping up this week and it is getting harder to find the book related stuff in here these days
:(

bump - Simon/Patti, do you need help with organising something? I know you're really busy, I can work something out with your help if you want :)

Morning Lorraine,

I completely forgot about this idea.


I love volunteers. At the moment I'm not sure what needs doing. You could drum up support and ideas for the live event.

I am also interested in ways
we can get new members more involved.

You are helping a huge amount by all your support and comments around the group Lorraine

Awww Simon ♥ I'm more of a troublemaker though !

OK - we're open to ideas and suggestions. When, who, how...

Anyone's help is welcome :) Be warned, I'm gonna run that like a military operation !

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You just need to kidnap one of the authors and tie them down. I would think there would be several who should be willing to be the first victim. The rest of us can prepare questions to torture them with.

I think Darren or Shaun might enjoy it.

The tying down and torturing i mean not the question and answering but at least its a start ;o)

OK then - is there an author who'd be interested in being tied down and tortured then ?

Lorraine (thread bumper-payment in diamonds only) wrote: "OK then - is there an author who'd be interested in being tied down and tortured then ?"

Okay, that's the fun part. What happens after?