Comments on: Victoria Dahl Turns Up The Heat!

By: terrio

terrio — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:03:55 +0000

Thanks so much for visiting with us, Victoria! I’ll use the randomizer and announce the winner of a copy of START ME UP this afternoon.

By: Victoria Dahl

Victoria Dahl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:25:10 +0000

Thanks, Di and Lori!!!

I hope I haven’t missed any questions. I’ll be up at the crack of ten tomorrow to check again, so please repost if I’ve missed one!!!

Thanks so much for having me. What a very excellent day to be aboard. I had a blast!

By: terrio

terrio — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:23:41 +0000

Hey, Di! We’re happy you make no matter how late.

Lori – That’s the spirit! Thanks for hopping aboard.

By: Lori T

Lori T — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:21:52 +0000

Hi Victoria~

I loved Talk Me Down and Start Me Up sounds great!

I think that yes I would let my significant other read what I am reading so that he could have a glimpse into what I like.

By: Di R

Di R — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:34:14 +0000

Hi, Victoria!!

Sorry I’m late-it turned into one of those days.

I have enjoyed your historicals and just picked up Talk Me Down and I am loving it, I can’t wait to finish it.

By: Victoria Dahl

Victoria Dahl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:06:56 +0000

Yep. By the time I sold, I’d written three non-historicals to try to break into the market! *g*

Off to game. I’ll check in again when I get home!

By: terrio

terrio — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:03 +0000

If that isn’t a lesson in perseverance, I don’t know what is. LOL! I love that you won and sold with something that was supposed to be what no one wanted.

By: Victoria Dahl

Victoria Dahl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:39:58 +0000

Okay, done with errands and it’s not quite time for last baseball game of season (oh thank god). So first call story… I have the worst memory of anyone I know. Please never be offended if I ask your name & we’ve already met three times. I can just BARELY remember my first sale story. And I only know the date because my lovely cp, Jenn Echols, sent me a box engraved w date. *sigh*

I’d been writing for five years and had basically given up on historicals because the market was so bad. In fact, my agent hadn’t even ASKED to read my historicals. So I was hard at work on my (never to be pubbed) paranormals when TO TEMPT A SCOTSMAN finaled in the 2005 Golden Heart! Woohoo!

Still nothing.

Then I WON the Golden Heart. But none of the final judges asked to see the full manuscript. How discouraging is THAT? But my agent finally read it and sent it out. About six months later, I got the call from Kensington!!! Suddenly, I was back to writing historicals!

By: 2nd Chance

2nd Chance — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:30:53 +0000

Nag her back! I love first call stories!

By: terrio

terrio — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:28:49 +0000

I wore the ugly dark blue and green plaid jumper in elementary then a gray kilt with navy sweater vest in HS. And yes, there was the knee socks. Knee socks in 1990 is just wrong.

Great sum up, Captain. Not sure where Victoria went. Saw on Twitter she was going off to get some stuff done.