This is unabashedly inspired by the Craigslist personal ad we linked to yesterday. Guess who the (not-quite) Intrepid Heroine is in our Comments, and the first person to correctly list the heroine’s full name, book title and author will win our regard, affection, and a PhotoShopped placard featuring some kind of lame but hopefully funny custom title you can proudly place on your website, or print out on stickers and paste on your forehead/your pets/sleeping husbands/helpless small children. “Duchess Cuntington” is already taken by Sarah, though, just so you know.
OK, enough blabbing, on to the personal ad.
WEAK GIRL WHO CRIES IN NEED OF STRONG MAN
Psychic SWF, tormented by gruesome visions of psychotic killer, in need of larger-than-life SWM to dole out verbal abuse, ogle my ass, take care of me (smothering attention and assumption that I’m completely helpless OK), grope me 24/7 while convinced I’m a liar. Ability to maintain erection while watching me writhe in pain during traumatic psychic visions and readiness to kick danger in ass a plus. Direct inquiries to codependent_dependent@romanticpersonals.com.
Hmmm, this sounds suspiciously like “Marlie Keen” from Linda Howard’s “Dream Man”. My head is filled with this type of trivia. Just don’t ask me what I ate for breakfast.
HOT DAMN, that was fast! You’re absolutely right. Prize won’t be ready until later this afternoon, but I’ll post it here in the comments, so look for it then.
Aren’t you all tingly from anticipation? Har.
Hey, I can’t hardly wait to proudly display my new title. I’m saddened that Sarah has taken “Duchess Cuntington” as it fits me quite well most days but I’ll settle for whatever title you see fit to bestow upon me.
Nice going! I’m impressed you are one of those people, like Candy, who can remember title/author/character names. I barely remember them, except for peculiar and few-and-far-between examples. Like I remember the names of all the daughters in “Blaze Wyndham.”
Why do I do that? I do not know.
Sorry I took your title – how about Princess Prissypants? That way you’ll outrank me!
I hadn’t read the original book here, but is it sad that I thought of at least four different books with that approximate plot?
Four? Very impressive. I don’t read too much romantic suspense, so I haven’t come across that particular plot device too often. The personal ad could almost be one for the heroine in Anne Stuart’s Special Gifts, except the hero never got a boner when the heroine was struck by her nasty visions. The heroine was a 29-year-old virgin, though, so I could’ve skewered that instead. “NEEDED URGENTLY: Strong, assertive former special-ops agent to deflower high-strung, underweight 29 y.o. SWF psychic.”
Princess Prissypants, I like. Sure beats Pissypants which I mistakenly read the first time around!
Laurie, here’s the code you need to paste into your HTML editor to get the prize to show up all pretty-like on your webpage:
<a href=“http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/C14/”>
<img src=“http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/images/hottepantes.jpg”
alt=“Marchioness Hottepantes” border=“0” /></a>
E-mail me if you have any questions or encounter any problems.
Dammit! I would have totally gotten that. I love that book. In fact, it’s sitting on my nightstand. *sigh* I’m always late to the party!
Of course, that description was beyond accurate. LOL. (I only used LOL because I know how much you want to be a website that uses LOL a lot) 😛
Hee hee. One or two LOLs aren’t too bad, but when there are too many of them, oy. Sarah and I belong to this mailing list, and this one woman who posts frequently uses it constantly. I mean, every other word LOL that she types LOL is LOL, LOL. I probably was just done catching up on my messages for that mailing list when I wrote the “About Us” bit for this site….
Either that same person is on many of the lists or they have a secret club that we don’t know about. lol It’s beyond irritating. lol There should be a law against overuse of expressions such as that lol Especially since it’s mis-used lol and overused lol there’s a serial killer on the loose in my neighborhood who tortures puppies lol
Whew! That was hard work! Hope the Smart Bitches don’t ban me for lol use 😉
A weekend with no internet access is my own personal version of hell.
I’m loving my prize and have stuck it on my bookcrossing page.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/LaurieS
I sure look lovely as Fabio prods my back with his protuberance.