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It’s been a long time since I’ve posted and now here’s a long one! For awhile my silence was partially because it was Winter and a lot of the good shows ended or went on hiatus and pretty much the only thing on was Beauty and the Geek. It’s also been because I’ve been immersed in writing my new book. But now there is SO MUCH TO WATCH it is really quite ridiculous. I’m currently following The

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...or the taxi driver!That's a quote from one of the models -- I never did learn to distinguish one from the other -- as they finished up the last leg of The Amazing Race. And thanks to God, or the Taxi Driver, they won... Sort of a boring finish, but as the guys would say, whatever dude. I'm glad I don't have to listen to Rob and his girlfriend argue anymore... good luck to them if they get

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I was sorry to see The Barbies go this week on The Amazing Race. I was hoping they'd win and show the world that you can be blonde and not dumb, but it seems they showed the world you can be blonde and overconfident. (They fell behind last week when they drove past the turnoff they needed while they were chuckling to themselves on how well they were doing.) Anyway, somehow the three couples left

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The end of The Bachelor (I liked Lorenzo, but could they not put him opposite some women who were a little more mature?)I'm guessing Jen gets the loan of the ring until her father chases Lorenzo off with his gun and Sadie rides of crying in the limo thankful her virginity is intact.)Getting hooked on Heroes after The Bachelor ends.Getting through the winter without Project Runway or Dancing With

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It's a dreary Monday night with no Wifeswap and no Bachelor on tonight. Fie on those Country Music Awards! I miss Prince Lorenzo. If you ask me, none of the women are right for him. An uninspired bunch. Anyway...Up on the Girlfriend's Cybercircuit is Laurie Stolarz, whose YA novel BLEED has just come out.As Laurie describes is: Over the course of a single day, the lives of ten teenagers will

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So the very unpleasant Jeffrey won Project Runway. I did like his collection the best (the artist can make beautiful things even if the artist is not a beautiful person) but do I want to have to see him on future shows making little guest appearances with his ugly neck tatoo? And can someone please explain to me how finding a receipt can determine whether he had other people help him sew his

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The next couple who be back next week...Congratulations...In no particular order...You're still in the running...Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinskato be America's Next Top ModelThe couple who will not be returning next week.will immediately pack her bags...Vivica Fox and Nick Kosovich...Monique"It's all good!" (Viveca)"This was a waste of time..." (Monique) HOW IS A PERSON SUPPOSED TO WATCH TWO

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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?(Comment overheard under the hair dryer at the Dazzling Do’s in Karin Gillespie's new novel DOLLAR DAZE.)Up this week on the GCC tour is our co-founder Karin Gillespie. (So I want to do a good job here, and I will try not to digress into writing about the multitude of shows I've watched over the past couple days. Her novel is DOLLAR DAZE, and it has a

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How is a person supposed to watch the results show for Dancing With the Stars, the two hour premiere of America's Next Top Model AND The Biggest Loser all at once? Actually, I think there is something cosmic about going back and forth between the anorexic models and the chubbies trying to lose weight. Maybe they should do a show called The Biggest Gainers -- skinny people trying to put on a few

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I saw STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP (is that bulky title or what?) last night and it put me in a cranky mood. I like Amanda Peet, but was she high or something? That show made me cranky. It was just so... so... so... WHAT? Umm.... arrogant! There were too many successful people being successful. (I'm not sure if I'm talking about the creators or the actors or the characters, but whatever.) And it

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The next day you’re out. And the next day you’re in again.I missed writing about the last two shows, but in a way it doesn’t matter, because Vincent Libretti and Angela Keslar were brought back. I was not too thrilled to see them. Neither were the remaining designers, of course. Heidi Klum said something like, “they wanted to make sure the right people won.” We all know Angela and Vincent are not

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It’s time again for Dancing With the Stars, and once again I found I had to overcome a huge amount of shame and embarrassment at the idea of watching this show. Whenever a family member passed through the room I'd pretent to flip some channels just to throw them off my scene. Last week, when I saw the line up of sub-lebrities, I thought that this time around would be blah and the show would lose

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Confessions of a Super Mom by Melanie Lynn Hauser is up this week on the GCC, and it sounds like a fun read. Birdie Lee is an average hard-working single mother of two teenagers, PTA lackey, and mild-mannered grocery clerk at the local Marvel Fine Foods and Beverages. One morning, while getting ready for work, Birdie is sidetracked by a stubborn Stain of Unusual Origin on her bathroom floor.

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There's a 20 questions Q & A with me on Popgurls, a fabulous pop culture-crazed website. They asked me some scary questions, like Do you avoid writing sex scenes because your kids might think you're writing about their dad?pop culturepop-culture

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The less than illustrious stars who will be dancing on the guilty pleasure reality show DANCING WITH THE STARS will be Mario Lopez, Emmitt Smith, Harry Hamlin, Shanna Moakler, Joey Lawrence, Willa Ford, Jerry Springer, Vivica A. Fox, Sara Evans, Tucker Carlson, and Monique Coleman. I find the women to be particularly unexciting. The only one I've heard of is Viveca Fox, and I don't see that there

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Up this week on the GCC Tour is Anne Frasier, who likes to make your skin crawl. Her new novel is PALE IMMORTAL. Welcome to Tuonela, a sleepy Wisconsin town haunted by events of 100 years ago, when a man who may have been a vampire slaughtered the town's citizens and drank their blood. Now, another murderer is killing the most vulnerable...and draining their bodies of blood.Watch the music video,

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I am proud to say that I'm in a collection of stories that's just been published called THIS IS CHICK-LIT. The other authors are Jennifer Coburn, Harley Jane Kozak, Ariella Papa, Cara Lockwood, Kayla Perrin, Karen Siplin, Deanna Carlyle, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Heather Swain, Caren Lissner, Julie Kenner, Karin Gillespie, Andrea Schicke Hirsch, Gena Showalter, Raelynn Hillhouse, Johanna Edwards,

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Up this week on the GCC is Ellen Meister, author of SECRET CONFESSIONS OF THE APPLEWOOD PTA, which sounds like so much fun. It's about three women in a Long Island suburb whose friendship is tested when Hollywood comes to town to film a George Clooney movie. And totally exciting -- she has a blurb from Lisa Kudrow."The best time I've had in years. Ellen Meister's characters are so funny, smart,

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The task last night on Project Runway was for the designers to make an outfit for the mothers (and in a couple cases sisters) of the other designers. Of course, these were "real people," not size 0 young things, and this proved to be the biggest challenge of all -- even harder than last week's challenge of using garbage to make a dress. The results were incredibly ugly. I mean yuck. Really bad. I

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I was away last week, but am all caught up on Project Runway. God knows, they rerun the episodes so many times it's almost impossible to avoid them. I am actually a little bit mad at the Project Runway powers-that-be right now, so I can't even comment on last week's show. (Except to say can you please tell me how Bradley Baumkirchner can really be so ignorant about who Cher is?) But what I really

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Next up on the GCC is Diana Peterfreund, whose novel Secret Society Girl takes us into the heart of the Ivy League’s ultra-exclusive secret societies when a young woman is invited to join as one of their first female members. I asked Diana the usual questions...Are you a TV watcher?No. In fact, I haven't had TV in more than a year. We have a set at our house, but it only plays DVDs. It doesn't

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So Keith was kicked off Project Runway. Just when I was really enjoying not liking him. Arrogant people are always so fascinating, plus the guy looks like a model. It's too bad... and I bet the producers didn't want to have to let him go either. But as we know, this was not his first infraction. He didn't design an outfit for his dog last episode, either. The guy is just "above" the rules. On the

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Up this week on the GCC is Martha O'Connor, whose novel THE BITCH POSSE is coming out in paperback. My novel YOU COULD DO BETTER is theoretically out today! However, I did not see it at my local bookstore. Maybe sometime soon, though...Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.THE BITCH POSSE has been described as a taut, psychological thriller and is the story of three girlfriends. It goes

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Have I ever mentioned I love dogs? Five more days until YOU COULD DO BETTER is out in stores!And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...I had a dachsund when I was little, but we had to give him away because my brother was allergic. Anyway, I was delighted last night when the task was to design matching outfits for the models and little doggies. So cute. The main drama on the show

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A Native Oklahoman, Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been a competitive cheerleader, a volleyball player, a dancer, a debutante, a primate cognition researcher, a teen model, a comic book geek, and a lemur aficionado.Eight more days until YOU COULD DO BETTER is out in stores! And now back to our regularly scheduled programming... Jennifer wrote her novel GOLDEN when she was 19. GOLDEN, a young adult

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