Comments on: Cowboy Kisses blog cooperative

By: Ellen O'Connell

Ellen O'Connell — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:24:06 +0000

Sounds like a good Easter, mesadallas. My fun Easter experience was a frantic phone call last night from a Jewish friend. She and her husband aren’t religious and when their daughter started in on Saturday about how the Easter Bunny didn’t leave her anything last year because he couldn’t find her so this year she’d sent him directions…. In my friend’s shoes I’d have sat the kid down and had a little talk, but I’m not a modern parent. So I got the frantic cell phone call about where to go, what to buy, etc.

I told her in our house we always set out empty baskets the night before, kind of like Christmas stockings, and the next morning there the baskets were, filled with goodies, almost all edible and now considered Bad Foods. When she got to the store she found pre-fab baskets with stuff other than candy in them and got one of those – a new holiday tradition was born. (Did you even know there were such things as Barbie Easter baskets? I’m happy to report my friend didn’t get one of those.)

I have a couple of weeks to decide about the CK post. Thought about some of my Apache research, but wouldn’t want that too close to the Nez Perce blog. So what others choose the last week before me may affect what I decide.

~Ellen

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:32:37 +0000

Yes, it was me. It’s been one heck of a busy week. One of my sons still lives in Seattle so he was here with his family for the week. Of course the other four sons and their families were here every day as well so we had a constant non-stop family reunion of 16. I only had a minute or so to get away and check my e-mails or the amazon forum and cowboy kisses. We all went to church together this morning and then had the big Easter dinner. Everyone pulled out to head to their perspective homes about an hour ago so the house is quiet now and rather lonely.

I know you will have no problem coming up with something for Cowboy kisses. Some ideas- perhaps the truth about cowboy’s horses on a working ranch or cavalry during the Civil and Indian Wars. I know romance writers like to put their hero on a stallion because it’s an extension of the hero’s sexuality but you and I both know what a bunch of bunk that is.

Actually, I remember reading somewhere that both cavalry and ranch horses were almost exclusively geldings.

By: Ellen O'Connell

Ellen O'Connell — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:03:01 +0000

Thanks, Anon (mesadallas? McD? Paige?). As my new post says, I now have until the 30th to come up with something and write it. ~E

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:21:48 +0000

Hi, Ellen,
I meant to give you some feedback a lot sooner but I got so busy I forgot. Your bio page looks great. I second what mervi wrote. I know ou could write some articles about horses or the Civil War that would be very interesting.

By: Ellen O'Connell

Ellen O'Connell — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:27:26 +0000

Hi Mervi – Thanks for the feedback. I actually rewrote that bio for Cowboy Kisses several times trying different approaches before settling on the one I posted. It’s nice to know it worked for you. ~Ellen

By: MerviR

MerviR — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:34:43 +0000

I checked Cowboy Kisses and it looks nice. Didn’t have time to check the other authors yet but I visited your page and I think if I hadn’t read your books already, I’d be interested to check them out after reading your story about becoming a writer and the descriptions of the novels.

Happy Easter!

Mervi