Getting the hang of it?

L.Jones · Dec 28, 2005

Found my way here via friend's suggestion - read for a while, finally joined now trying to get the hang of it all. Yikes! Became a writer to avoid human contact but have found it doesn't work like that so here goes...

Working writer for more than a decade, 21 novels on shelves or out of print (4 pen names, 5 pubs, 8 lines -- learned the craft in series romance now do mostly women's fiction, southern themed). Loads of accolades, lots of experience, great agent, contracts extended into the next few years. Still have to work part time at Booksamillion to pay bills (banks will not cash checks on good reviews). Thems the realities.

Looks like a great community here.

Current book:
Heathen Girls (MIRA)
Luanne Jones

Vanessa · Dec 28, 2005

What an impressive resume'. Welcome to the AWWC. Hope you enjoy your space and time around here. I'm sure there are lots of info that you can bring to the table. Happy reading and writing.

ChunkyC · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome to the Cooler, Luanne. I agree with Vanessa, you have a great resume and I'm sure you'll fit right in here.

Bufty · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome, Luanne - you leave me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind. :hi:

Cathy C · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome, Luanne! :hi:

Glad to have you aboard. Feel free to drop by the Romance Forum and say hi over there too. We have some other category authors you might recognize, plus single title people and pre-published, as well!

aka eraser · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome Luanne. Sounds like you'll be a terrific asset to the AW community.

ChunkyC · Dec 28, 2005

Cathy C said:
...and pre-published, as well!

Hey, I like that, Cathy: Pre-published. Great term!

Cathy C · Dec 28, 2005

I can't claim credit -- I saw it in an article in Publisher's Weekly, and thought it was cool. Sort of like "used" cars are now "pre-owned".

L.Jones · Dec 28, 2005

thanks!

I hope I'm responding correctly. Sheesh, been online forever but every place has a whole new angle to learn. Learning is hard. My head hurts

thanks for the welcome!
annie (Luanne) Jones

Ara · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome to the cooler! Hope you are ready to give some advice from your years of experience to us newbies!

Have fun and see you on the boards!

sthrnwriter · Dec 28, 2005

Welcome to AW, Luanne. I hope to see you around.

KTC · Dec 29, 2005

Wow Luanne! Welcome. That's some list of publications. Hope you like the joint! Unfortunately, you will find that there's a lot of human contact on these boards...but it's with fellow writers...so we all understand the sentiment! Welcome aboard!

JennaGlatzer · Dec 29, 2005

, Luanne/Annie! So nice to meet you.

Does Booksamillion at least put all your books face-out?

triceretops · Dec 29, 2005

Well, hi there, Annie. And heeeeeeeeer comes the neighborhood! We just got our doors delightfully blown off. What a credit list! I'll tell ya, if I wrote in your genre I know dang well who MY moving buddy would be. Looks like Cathy and Suan have got a neat new friend to hog to themselves. Sniff...sniff.

Tri

L.Jones · Dec 29, 2005

Ack, I'm communicating

Okay, I see it's unavoidable (communicating) around this place (really enjoying reading the bbs if not ready to jump in yet)

Thanks for the welcome, y'all!

No, BAM doesn't do a thing for me unless I go to a shelf and do it myself (this would be a good marketing mantra - go to the shelf and do it yourself). But I'm not working there right now (going back in the spring). Yesterday a friend explained that she thought even the chains had their niche markets and I should have known that (see, staying in a hole and writing isn't always smart) so that this current work is more B&N fare, so I hit B&N and there it is, main table, many copies. I signed those suckers to make them harder to return and wondered why I didn't get a job There? Do you think they'd make me talk to people? (confession - I am a customer service specialist, meaning I am nice to the public all day long, but secretly I think of how I can turn some of them into really awful characters who get their due in the next book)

annie/luanne (really that's a legal name, no one calls me that but my editor found out and made me use it because it sounds more "southern")

Cathy C · Dec 29, 2005

LOL! I have to admit

o) that I've done my share of turning my books face out when I stop by stores. A couple of times, I've moved one or two of our latest title to a display where similar books were shelved. So sue me -- I think every author does it occasionally.

awatkins · Dec 29, 2005

Welcome, welcome! So glad to have you with us.

September skies · Dec 29, 2005

Welcome Luanne - glad to have you here.

Julie Worth · Feb 19, 2006

L.Jones said:
Working writer for more than a decade, 21 novels ...Still have to work part time at Booksamillion to pay bills. Thems the realities.

That’s the reality??? What on bloody earth have I been doing!!! Opens drawer, takes out revolver. Loads chambers, spins it, snaps it closed. Points to computer screen. Squeezes trig...

L M Ashton · Feb 19, 2006

Welcome, Luanne!

Getting the hang of it?

L.Jones

Vanessa

Writer and Music Producer

ChunkyC

It's hard being green

Bufty

Where have the last ten years gone?

Cathy C

Ooo! Shiny new cover!

aka eraser

Fish Whisperer

ChunkyC

It's hard being green

Cathy C

Ooo! Shiny new cover!

L.Jones

Ara

sthrnwriter

Snoopy Dance!

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live

JennaGlatzer

wishes you happiness

triceretops

L.Jones

Cathy C

Ooo! Shiny new cover!

awatkins

Not harboring illegal parrot

September skies

cloud watching

Julie Worth

What? I have a title?

L M Ashton

crazy spec fic writer