Here are the ABCs (and more!) on all of your favorite goddesses!

Between the eight of them, your goddesses are:

- FAMOUS with over 14 million books in print!
- INTELLIGENT with seven bachelor degrees, three masters degrees, and one PhD!
- SUCCESSFUL with over 58 hits on the USA Today best sellers list!
- NOTED and have had held places on the New York Times Top 35 List for 41 weeks!
- FRUITFUL and have written over 115 books!
- and VICTORIOUS with one Daphne Award (suspense), three RITA Awards with 12 nominations, three Bookseller’s Best Awards, two Dorothy Parker Awards of Excellence, five RT Best Awards, and four RWA Favorite Book of the Year!

YOUR GODDESSES ROCK!

Some facts about your goddesses:

Your goddesses haven’t always been writers. At some time or another, some of them worked in ‘the real world.’ Some of them enjoyed their work, others . . . not so much.

Here’s a list of the jobs your goddesses once had. We capped them to make them appear More Important.

Product Development Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager, Customer Service Manager, Database Designer, High School Teacher, Sewer Company Employee, College Professor, Director of Student Activities, Coordinator for Study Abroad Programs, Assistant Buyer for a major retail chain, Movie Theater Box Office Ticket Seller, Law Firm File Clerk, Optometry College Public Relations Secretary, Secretary to the president of a Mercedes dealership, Technical Writer, and Day Care Director.

And your goddesses have worked with every major publisher in New York and Canada including Avon, Ballantine, Bantam, Berkley, Dell, Dorchester, Harlequin/Silhouette, HarperCollins, NAL, Pocket, Simon and Schuster, Warner, and Zebra!

The most difficult thing for your goddesses to write:

• The Beginning Chapter – 50%
• The Middle – 25%
• Love Scenes – 25%

Goddess Julia London commented “Writing conflict is easy. I’ve been skewering men for one thing or another all my life.”

Yes, we were shocked by that, too.

Where your goddesses work:

• Home Office – 50%
• Waiting for my kids at soccer practice – 12%
• Coffee Shop – 25%
• Patio – 13%

What your goddesses wear while composing their masterful books:

• Jeans or shorts and a t-shirt – 25%
• Casual slacks and shirt – 12%
• Sweats – 38%
• Nothing – 12%
• PJs – 13%
• Taffeta and Tiara – none

We think Karen Hawkins answered ‘nothing’ but she won’t admit it and we’re not hiring a P.I. to find out.

What is your goddesses’ favorite beverage to sip whilst writing?

• Coffee – 38%
• Tea – 26%
• Diet Coke – 12%
• Water – 12 %
• TAB – 12% (or, as Karen Rose calls it, ‘Nectar of the Goddesses.’)

Note: Goddesses do not condone drunk driving, writing or reading, so if you’re drinking vodka right now, please put down the glass and call in a designated reader.

What would your goddesses do for chocolate?

• Walk over really hot sand – 25%
• Walk through fire – 37% (if the chocolate didn’t melt, of course)
• Blech – 38%

Rachel Gibson answered ‘blech’ but added that she would ‘kill for a bag of skittles’ and Karen Rose said ‘all of the above’ which wasn’t an option, but we’re going to let her have it.

Total number of children scattered amongst your fertile and busy goddesses, including stepchildren:

14

Nicole Jordan wished to count her horse, but if we allowed that, we would also have to allow Suzanne Enoch to count her ‘gazillion’ guppies, which we felt would skew the number.

Karen Rose asked to include her husband in ‘number of children,’ but we declined though we concede her point. Sometimes, there’s not a lot of difference.

All of your romance author goddesses base their heroes on sexy men they’ve seen on tv or, if they’re lucky, in real life. One big screen example is Hugh Jackman. In an effort to understand the depth of admiration a romance author goddess can have for such a man as Hugh Jackman, we asked our goddess authors what they’d do for a kiss from this demi-god.

• Jump through hoop of fire – 12%
• Throw myself from the top of a burning building onto the top of his limo and hope he would notice before the ambulance scraped me off and hauled me away – 25% (Suzanne Enoch said this would make an impression. On his car.)
• Wrestle his huge hulking body guards to the ground using my high-falutin’ kung fu techniques, regardless of the choke holds and flying meaty elbows I might encounter – 13%
• Anything he wanted – 50%

Julia London (who obviously has not yet experienced the Hugh Jackman Magic) said, ‘Hugh who? Give me Colin Firth and we’ll talk.’

The rest of the goddesses politely declined to answer.

For more information on your lovely, successful goddesses, check our their individual websites!