They do have deadlines, based on the pub dates, like any other author.

I can’t really say how long it takes on average - all authors are different, you know? Some crank them out and some fuss over their manuscripts forever.
I don’t personally know any romance authors who live off of the proceeds from writing exclusively. Probably there are some.

I’ll go ahead and answer a bit, I guess. I work for a publisher that puts out a lot of romances, among other types of fiction, and we don’t crank them out any differently from any other publishing house I’ve worked for.

Yes! I am with you.

This needs more stars.

Barry Crimmins was on the Majority Report last Friday - pretty sure it was in the free-to-everyone first half. That’s his fellow Air America guy Sam Seder’s podcast, for which I am NOT a paid shill. I just happened to hear him on there.

Xanthippe. Her name is Xanthippe - it's Greek, from Socrates (his wife).

I love this comment beyond reason. This is what it's all about.

You can get it on DVD! I don't know about BluRay but I had it on DVD and played it until I wore it out then I bought it again.

You are a gigantic food snob!

You can loot the public pension fund to the tune of $1 billion.

You saw the Beatles? No kidding? What year was that? Was it in the States? I'm seriously asking - my dad saw them on their one US tour.

Minneapolis has America's greatest radio station (IMO) - The Current. I listen to it all day at my job in NYC. Between them and SummerFest, you guys have the best music scene going.

"You think individual cultures enrich the global community rather than maintaining its racial separations."

You don't sound like a liberal to me. You sound like a libertarian, and thus an asshole.

I'm sorry but where did you get the idea that Floyd is a good man? Trust me, Mayweather isn't going to run out of money any time soon (unlike almost every other boxer in the history of ever) but you sound kind of crazy here.

"For the folks whom have received...?"

Yeah, this reminds me of every single fortune cookie fortune my dad claimed he got in his entire life. He was joking, though. I assume the motive here is to call attention to the worker's conditions?

That's terrible, I'm so sorry.

I found a little grub-looking worm in my salad at Tribeca Grill, like ten+ years ago. It was still alive and squirming. The waitstaff kept offering me more food from the kitchen (another salad? a free dessert?) but I was deeply grossed out at the moment. It was a work lunch, I am pretty sure the guy who took me there…