charlie_cochrane: (Lessons in temptation)
charlie_cochrane ([personal profile] charlie_cochrane) wrote2010-02-13 12:46 pm

That's me, hiding in the corner...

I hate making a hoo-hah, so am just noting that Lessons in Temptation is up for best historical book 2009 over at Love Romance Cafe. Am up against the wonderful Captain's Surrender by [livejournal.com profile] alex_beecroft - I think we're the only two m/m romances on the list. We were going to fight it out, duel style, weapons of choice being large fish but decided to eat the fish with chips and peas, instead.

[identity profile] jbeanc.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's great! Congrats on the nom and good luck. I'm halfway through this book as I type.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, sweetheart.

[identity profile] atthe-algonquin.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
eeee! Congratulations, o star you :)

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ee, thanks love. This is the one part of the job I can't get to grips with, the 'Ooh look at me'. Maybe we could job share - I promo you and vice versa.

[identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Co-op promo might be a great idea. My attitude toward the task is, "here's my book, I try to write well, hope you like it." Bragging on myself... just doesn't come naturally.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Whereas I could promo you or the other wrinklings till the cows come home.

[identity profile] atthe-algonquin.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
seriously? Because that would be awesome. Let me get an audience first, but I'd love to promo you!

(I'm super-uncomfortable promo-ing myself. It just seems...hubristic?)

(Plz forgive weird spellings or grammar. I'm about two sheets to the wind. For obvious reasons.)

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Only two? Oh Scotland - it's supposed to be snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, not...

Hubris indeed. There must be some way we can promo each other (or the 4/5 of us get together and work out a system). It could be great.

[identity profile] atthe-algonquin.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be brilliant.

now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to quietly expire in a corner on top of my kebab. And figure out if I have enough energy to go out and help my Irish friends recover.

[identity profile] jess-faraday.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY! Congrats to you both!

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, toots!

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No duel. Just a fight over whether it's salt and vinegar on the chips.

[identity profile] theshirelife.livejournal.com 2010-02-14 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
That'll teach me to reply to something when I have a headache. Obviously I didn't read the last part correctly. *sheepish*

[identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a link for voting on this, or is it the one where you have to email the vote to the listowner?

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the 'mail the listowner' one - but not before voting officially starts, which is Monday.

[identity profile] shezzawatto.livejournal.com 2010-02-14 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats and all that. No surprise though.
Will be thinking of both of you while I watch the Monty Python retrospective on the idiot box tonight!
Might also direct you to this.
http://www.horatians.org/index.php?topic=6896.860
Most are hilarious, but scroll down to about number 10. Anyway, you'll know it when you sees it.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2010-02-14 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Mega LOLs. There is something about those po-faced expressions that make Mutiny and Retribution so eminently send-uppable.

Thanks for the link.

*mwah*