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Lynne Cheney's bodice ripper novel Not everyone knows about Lynne Cheney's (VP Dick Cheney's wife) literary career, which includes having written a steamy bodice ripper novel "Sisters", complete with the usual heaving breasts and florid language, but made more unique by adding lesbian sex to the mix. If you're fortunate enough to have a copy, be happy - not because of its literary merit, but because they're rare and expensive!
For a sample, see http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp
It shouldn't have anything to do with how one votes (except for setting off your sanctimony alert)... but it is funny. "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
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bizarre, do you think the seventh excerpt refers to the first time she met Dick?
....although not being familiar with the genre I feel unable to comment on its literary merits.
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"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."
-Jimi Hendrix
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Speaking as a respectable middle-aged middle-school English teacher with an image to maintain but who has written and published a couple of moderately trashy novels, that's one of the things I do not hold against Lynne Cheney, and I hope you won't either.  "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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freaky-deaky
 "Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."
-Jimi Hendrix
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Check it out further guys. It's a spoof website. If it was serious it would .gov, not .org. Even the front page has anti- bush ads. But now I want to read Peach's trashy Romance novels.
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They're science fiction/fantasy, not romance.
And Peach, I didn't think they were trashy  John Matus
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More power to Peach in any case... Hey, Peach: want to tell us titles or ISBN numbers so your loyal fencing.net friends can boost your sales? "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
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Well . . . They're out of print in any case, so I wouldn't earn any more royalties (not that I ever earned back my advance, which is the horrid secret of publishing), but they did well for a while, were translated into French and Japanese that I know of, and were a SF Book-of-the-Month Club selection as a combined volume.
Nameless Magery ISBN 0-345-42430-1 and Of Swords and Spells ISBN 0-345-42432-8 at some used book supplier somewhere. "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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Funny how you had not only the titles but the ISBN's handy Yeah, "out of print", and "not earning back the advance" - the two evil phrases of publishing. I think it was Thoreau who was challenged to a duel by another author and he suggested that they throw unused copies of their books at each other. If we ever fence one another and can't settle on foil vs. sabre, we can do the same (though I hope yours are paperbacks!) "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
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So do you have your ISBNs handy? I admit I'm at work and I keep a couple of copies of the books in my bookcase to impress my easily-impressed students, so I just had to lean forward and grab them.
The other phrase I find amusing, addressed to authors: "Can you give me a copy of your book?" They think we have cases of them in our houses.
 Originally Posted by jeff Funny how you had not only the titles but the ISBN's handy Yeah, "out of print", and "not earning back the advance" - the two evil phrases of publishing. I think it was Thoreau who was challenged to a duel by another author and he suggested that they throw unused copies of their books at each other. If we ever fence one another and can't settle on foil vs. sabre, we can do the same (though I hope yours are paperbacks!) "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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Originally Posted by Peach So do you have your ISBNs handy? I admit I'm at work and I keep a couple of copies of the books in my bookcase... snip! Yeah, I do the same. They're related to my profession, so it adds a little aura...
Originally Posted by Peach The other phrase I find amusing, addressed to authors: "Can you give me a copy of your book?" They think we have cases of them in our houses. Oh, that is *so* true... My standing offer is "If you buy it, I'll autograph it..." "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
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