With its distribution deal with S&S, I think those are not POD. Are those the ones you saw in the airport?

Now there’s a thought! Unfortunately I didn’t have any plain brown wrappers. :-)

EC

It’s the virgin widow I can’t stand because I feel the concept promotes a couple ideas that I don’t like. EIther only virtuous women get to have an HEA or the only good sex a woman can experience is with the hero (which is just another way of saying only good girls get the guys).

I will say this for the whole virgin widow thing — just in case you think everyone at Avon loves the idea — that when I mentioned to Erika Tsang that my next heroine isn’t a virgin she said, “As long as she’s not a widow, I don’t care.” That said, my next heroine is a widow, remarried and no, not a virgin. I try to avoid virgins at all costs if I can.

A writer friend and I were having lunch one day, talking writing (what else?), and the waitress overheard us and asked if we were writers. “Yes,” we said happily, pleasantly, proudly, naively. To which she replied in a whisper. “God, I love those trashy books–but don’t tell anyone.”

We weren’t nearly as clever as Nora–or maybe it’s because our lower jaws snapped on the way to our chests. Way to go, Nora.

I haven’t read one of Nora Roberts’ books in a decade but I do like her forthrightness.