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The Wenches


  • Mary Jo Putney

  • Patricia Rice

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  • Jo Beverley
    Word Wench 2006-2016

  • Edith Layton
    Word Wench 2006-2009

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Wenches Statistics

  • Years published: 164

    Novels published: 231

    Novellas published: 74

    Range of story dates: nine centuries (1026-present)


    Awards Won:

    β€’ RWA RITA

    β€’ RWA Honor Roll

    β€’ RWA Top 10 Favorite

    β€’ RT Lifetime Achievement

    β€’ RT Living Legend

    β€’ RT Reviewers Choice

    β€’ Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews

    β€’ Golden Leaf

    β€’ Barclay Gold

    β€’ ABA Notable Book

    β€’ Historical Novels Review Editors Choice

    β€’ AAR Best Romance

    β€’ Smart Bitches Top 10

    β€’ Kirkus Reviews Top 21

    β€’ Library Journal Top 5

    β€’ Publishers Weekly Top 5

    β€’ Booklist Top 10

    β€’ Booktopia Top 10

    β€’ Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement


    Bestseller Lists:

    β€’ NY Times

    β€’ Wall Street Journal

    β€’ USA Today

    β€’ Waldenbooks Mass Market

    β€’ Barnes & Noble

    β€’ Amazon.com

    β€’ Chicago Tribune

    β€’ Rocky Mountain News

    β€’ Publishers Weekly

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Cathy

My favorite place to read is by our pool. I have large potted hibiscus all around, petunias in planter boxes and the pool nearby, of course. My husband wired the space for sound so good music, lively or soothing, is also on. We lunch and dine by the pool, too. We like to eat large salads with hunks of provolone cheese, marinated artichoke hearts, roasted tomatoes with good olive oil and the really good Balsamic vineagar. The wine is usually light and mild. How did I get off the topic of reading? Well, to me they are perfect together. My husband is also an avid reader and so we can spend hours on the pool deck reading, drinking and eating.

Cathy

My favorite place to read is by our pool. I have large potted hibiscus all around, petunias in planter boxes and the pool nearby, of course. My husband wired the space for sound so good music, lively or soothing, is also on. We lunch and dine by the pool, too. We like to eat large salads with hunks of provolone cheese, marinated artichoke hearts, roasted tomatoes with good olive oil and the really good Balsamic vineagar. The wine is usually light and mild. How did I get off the topic of reading? Well, to me they are perfect together. My husband is also an avid reader and so we can spend hours on the pool deck reading, drinking and eating.

Nina P

Cathy... the salad sounds scrumptious! Now I’m hungry.

I read sprawled out across my bed, or any bed, (traveling) pen in hand. I'm always writing little notes.

MS work happens wherever me and my laptop happen to be. At a water fall complete with splashing drakes, under the cover of white pine, high in my tree house or sitting in middle of my back yard surrounded by moon slit stillness. I do my best work under the full moon.

But noise... I can't abide by noise. You'd think I could, growing up the first of nine. But I can’t. Not any more. Headphones are my word count goal's best friend.

Well, it be back to work with me.

--the littlest wenchling, glad to have Wench Edith back in the house.

Lesley

Confession time: I read at stop lights. If I could figure out a way to read as the car is moving, I'd do that too. I read and watch t.v. at the same time. If I have a hand free to pick up a book, I read. It's an illness, doctors can't help.

Patricia Rice

I can read anywhere, including upside down and with a candle, if necessary. Writing is a little tricker and depends on what I'm doing and the mood I'm in and the weather outside. But being surrounded by the loveliness of nature inspires more than distracts. Mosquitoes are not lovely, so lately nature hasn't been much of an inspiration. "G" I miss my NC treehouse. Now that was a great place for reading and writing, with the trees whispering just on the other side of the deck!

Patricia Rice

Typepad is being ugly today. It took forever for it to post my comment to Loretta and just lost my comment here. Guess I'll wait before continuing, but here's one last try--

I love to read and write with the inspiration of nature around me. But mosquitoes aren't inspiring, so I've been working inside lately. "G" I miss my NC treehouse!

DeniseM

I read anywhere and everywhere, though I will admit that Nature is a bigger distraction than the T.V. And, yes, I read at stoplights, too. When I'm into a particularly good or much anticipated book, I take it with me everywhere and read in whatever snatches I can get. I've even read a few sentences while driving when there weren't any cars around me, before I konked myself on the head for being stupid and asking for a wreck. Me Bad, I know.

Jane

I like to read while knitting, in my comfy chair in the living room, or during the summer, outside in a lawn chair. Sometimes the cat joins me and curls up on my lap or at my feet, purring away.

Sherrie Holmes

Edith, my favorite place to read is in bed. I prop myself up with a million pillows and get really comfortable, and then lose myself in a story. I have fallen asleep many a time with a book on my face. (Laytons are especially notorious for keeping me up way past my bedtime)

Reading in bed is good for writers. After you turn out the lights, all those words settle into the nooks and crannies of your brain where they divide and multiply and conjugate. By morning, there's a fresh batch of new words ready for the muse to pick up on her way to work.

And since it is now time for bed, I'm headed there now, with a book tucked under my arm ...

Melissa

Edith, I agree I can not read in bed but in honesty if I lay still in bed for more than 5 minutes I'm
sound a sleep but I always read in the living with my two boys running around and cartoons blasting from the T.V . My husband says he can't see how I can block it all out. Lol! I just read and allow myself to flow in to their world.

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