Meet Jay Northcote, Con Riley, and Annabelle Jacobs

[Dreamspinner]

Meet authors Jay Northcote (author of "Nothing Serious"), Con Riley (author of "Salvage"), and Annabelle Jacobs (author of "The Choosing") this Saturday, November 2nd from 3-5pm CST.

[Jay]

Hey folks,

the chat starts in just over 3 hours time. Come and talk to us later!
This is just me posting to check whether I know how to make photos happen in Goodreads
see you later
Jay :)

[Jay]

OMG why did you post that gif? I'll be completely incoherent now. You evil woman.

[Jay]

also, I know it's not time yet but I just found this on google and I have to share.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!!!!

These guys look like fun.

[Jules]

Hey all! Your chat starts right when I have to leave for work so I'll only be able to comment as much as I can sneak! ;)

[Annabelle]

It's like you started playing without me - i have this face!

[Jules]

Jay wrote: "also, I know it's not time yet but I just found this on google and I have to share.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!!!!

These guys look like fun."
It doesn't show me any picture. :(

[Jay]

Juliana wrote: "Jay wrote: "also, I know it's not time yet but I just found this on google and I have to share.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!!!!

These guys look like fun."
It doesn't show me any picture. :("

oh noes. I have no idea why because it's showing for me. Can anyone else see it? here is the direct link anyway but that's so much less fun.
http://cl.jroo.me/z3/A/o/y/b/a.aaa.jpg

[Annabelle]

I can see it, but I can't see Con's gif on my phone. It's fine on my PC, so I'll just look at that :)

[Jay]

*tacklehugs* Con and Annabelle

crossing fingers the gif works, if not - try disabling ad block or viewing on PC rather than phone :D

[Jay]

okay so is anyone here yet? We peaked a little soon ;)
But I have an extract lined up if anyone is ready and waiting!

[Annabelle]

Con wrote: "Sarah wrote: "

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Sarah, you never, ever let me down. :D"

LOL! I love that pic

[Annabelle]

And does anyone else have X Factor on in the background? Or is that just me?

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okay, Jay is wearing the Red Sox cap, right?

[Jay]

Annabelle wrote: "And does anyone else have X Factor on in the background? Or is that just me?"

I wish. I'm shut away in my stock cupboard because I have a houseful of guests and everyone else is too noisy for me to concentrate LOL

[Jay]

Sarah wrote: "



okay, Jay is wearing the Red Sox cap, right?"

haha, idk. I play acoustic rather than bass... and I don't look that good in a kilt ;)

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Con, is this you?

[Jay]

Sarah wrote: "

Con, is this you?"

eeeee ass dimples. My favourite <3

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Here's Annabelle!

[Annabelle]

Sarah wrote: "



Here's Annabelle!"

Ahh forgot my knickers again!

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Jay wrote: "Sarah wrote: "



okay, Jay is wearing the Red Sox cap, right?"

haha, idk. I play acoustic rather than bass... and I don't look that good in a kilt ;)"

guitars always make you look taller.

[Jay]

Okay so... in my recent release, Nothing Serious, Mark meets Jamie when he's moving house. An embarrassing incident brings them together (see excerpt below). Please share your embarrassing stories with me. I want to squirm reading them. Bonus points for the most hideous one.

Jamie stooped to lift a middle-sized box off the floor by the bed. As he swung it up and shifted his arms to get a better grip on it, the tape on the bottom of the box started to give way and Jamie swore, trying to hold it together as he went to place it back down.
Mark looked up and realized what was happening. He leapt up, reaching to support the bottom of the box, but he was too late. The contents spilled out all over Jamie’s feet and the bedroom floor.
Fuck, fuck, fuck-it-all! Of all the fucking boxes that could have split, it had to be this one!
“Oh bugger, sorry,” Jamie apologized. “I hope there was nothing breakable in here. Have you got some more tape so I can fix the box and pack it back up?”
“Uh… yeah, in the kitchen I think.” Please go and get it, please. Just go away and don’t look, because I’ve already embarrassed myself enough in front of you for one day.
Mark dropped to his knees and started frantically grabbing at the items on the floor, but he had nothing to put them into, nowhere to hide them. Jamie knelt down too, reaching out his huge hands to help. His fingers brushed Mark’s and then stilled as he obviously realized what he was seeing.
Mark froze, his whole body roasting with embarrassment as they both stared at the things that lay scattered over the floor. Along with a few more programming books, there were several gay porn magazines, a couple of porn DVDs, a bottle of lube, and—the icing on the cake of Mark’s mortification—a set of butt plugs in varying sizes.
Mark’s brain shut down. He literally had no idea what to say or do. He desperately tried to think of something funny to say because humor might help defuse the hideous awkwardness of this moment, but his usual banter had utterly deserted him. So he waited, like a rabbit caught in headlights, for the inevitable amusement—or worse, disgust—of the man in front of him.
But Jamie surprised him.
“I’ve seen that one. It’s really hot.” Jamie pointed to one of the DVDs. Then he picked up another one and looked at the cover. “Is this one any good?”

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Sarah wrote: "



Con, is this you?"

those chains are sort of roughie toughie==

so, you Brits...what sort of Brits are you? Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or English? Saxon, Norman, crazy Viking outliers? Any gingers among you lot?

Can we get some inside dope about football? What do you think about Posh and Beck's baby trying out for ManU? And do you really want an NFL expansion team in London?

[Shirley]

Great pictures sorry I don't have any to send. It's noisy here people are celebrating Guy Fawkes and fireworks are going off all the time I keep jumping out of my skin with all the explosions.

[Jay]

Sarah wrote:

so, you Brits...what sort of Brits are you? Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or English? Saxon, Norman, crazy Viking outl..."

I'm part Welsh and part Channel Islander, mostly Celtic probably. Small and dark, not ginger :) There's a ginger Irishman in Nothing Serious though. The Mark in my head looks a lot like this guy:

[Annabelle]

Sarah wrote: "Sarah wrote: "



Con, is this you?"

those chains are sort of roughie toughie==

so, you Brits...what sort of Brits are you? Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or English? Saxon, Norman, crazy Viking outl..."

Well, I'm English. I sometimes have red hair, sometimes dark brown, and once (not a good luck for me) blonde.

[Jay]

Shirley wrote: "Great pictures sorry I don't have any to send. It's noisy here people are celebrating Guy Fawkes and fireworks are going off all the time I keep jumping out of my skin with all the explosions." Thanks for coming to say hello! we'll make sure you're in the draw for some freebies :)

[Annabelle]

Shirley wrote: "Great pictures sorry I don't have any to send. It's noisy here people are celebrating Guy Fawkes and fireworks are going off all the time I keep jumping out of my skin with all the explosions."

I know, we have them all around us. It's driving my cats mad!

[Shirley]

Me I'm all English!!! Dark Brown hair and Eyes. I live in Lincolnshire right on the coast near Skegness.

[Jay]

come on guys, some of you must have some embarrassing stories. I'm not telling you mine until I see the colour of your money (so to speak). I have far too many embarrassing stories :-/

[Annabelle]

Shirley wrote: "Me I'm all English!!! Dark Brown hair and Eyes. I live in Lincolnshire right on the coast near Skegness."

I used to go to Skegness all the time when i was little. My family are all up north :)

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Jay wrote: "Okay so... in my recent release, Nothing Serious, Mark meets Jamie when he's moving house. An embarrassing incident brings them together (see excerpt below). Please share your embarrassing stories ..."

Okay, hideous and embarrassing? Ahem. Well, I recently moved from Portland to Boise (Portland Oregon not Portland England) and when the moving guys lifted my mattress and box springs off the frame, there under the bed was my (ahem!) hand held 'back massager' still plugged in and covered in dust. God. I am still hanging my head in shame.

[Garrett]

*streaks into Goodreads*

Evening, ladies :)

[Annabelle]

Sarah wrote: "Jay wrote: "Okay so... in my recent release, Nothing Serious, Mark meets Jamie when he's moving house. An embarrassing incident brings them together (see excerpt below). Please share your embarrass..."

LOL! Thats awesome.

[Shirley]

Annabelle wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Great pictures sorry I don't have any to send. It's noisy here people are celebrating Guy Fawkes and fireworks are going off all the time I keep jumping out of my skin with all the ..."

My kittens six months old all the noise is scaring her poor baby.

[Jay]

Sarah wrote: I recently moved from Portland to Boise (Portland Oregon not Portland England) and when the moving guys lifted my mattress and box springs off the frame, there under the bed was my (ahem!) hand held 'back massager' still plugged in and covered in dust. God. I am still hanging my head in shame.

AHAHAH! I totally sympathise. Funnily enough one of those features in one of my top 10 embarrassing moments too - only mine was when the plumber came to fix our boiler and found my 'back massager' in the airing cupboard in our bedroom. What a coincidence.
Does anyone *actually* use those for massaging backs? LOL

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my son is a ginger- stands 6'3", bright red hair and beard. When he's wearing his kilt and carrying his mace and broadsword, he looks ready to carry the Highlands.

[Jay]

Garrett wrote: "*streaks into Goodreads*

Evening, ladies :)"

heyyy! :) <3

[Garrett]

Just back from the coldest, windiest firework display ever. And I *hate* fireworks.

What's gwanning here?

[Jay]

just a reminder that we have a discount code for you:
ConJayAnnabelle. It's good for 25% off all our books plus all contemporaries and shifters for 48 hours. One use per customer :)

[Jay]

Garrett wrote: "Just back from the coldest, windiest firework display ever. And I *hate* fireworks.

What's gwanning here?"

we're sharing our embarrassing stories, please tell us yours :D

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What's gwanning here?

Garret, we're waiting for a picture of you in a kilt.

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Does anyone *actually* use those for massaging backs?


Hee hee, If anyone asks, I have a very bad back and can even put on a limp when needed.

[Jay]

If I'd known kilts were going to be a theme I'd have got my scottish husband to dress up specially :)

[Annabelle]

Okay, I'm sure this is TMI, but here goes....

when i was much younger, and having an afternoon of 'fun' with my husband (my then boyfriend), I may have given him my best sultry expression and said "I want you to suck my c*ck" Needless to say we fell about laughing, and he brings it up ALL THE TIME still!

[Jay]

Annabelle wrote: "Okay, I'm sure this is TMI, but here goes....

when i was much younger, and having an afternoon of 'fun' with my husband (my then boyfriend), I may have given him my best sultry expression and sai..."

LOLOL that's such a dirty talk fail when you don't actually have one ;)

[Garrett]

Jay wrote: "Garrett wrote: "Just back from the coldest, windiest firework display ever. And I *hate* fireworks.

What's gwanning here?"

we're sharing our embarrassing stories, please tell us yours :D"

How long have you got?

Though, I actually embarrassed myself pretty well tonight. I'm not keen on fireworks and I spent most of the display hiding behind my ten year old.

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Con wrote: "Hi, all. I had a whole chat to myself only a few weeks ago when my novel, Salvage was released. It’s had lovely reviews, as have my Seattle series novels, starting with After Ben. They are availabl..."

Hi ladies! I made it back in time. :D The still on FB made this gif look so much more dirty than it really is.

[Jules]

Hello! Slow at work at the moment! I'm so jealous of all you Brits! I need to meet a fella from the UK to take me back wih him! Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English it's all good! If you go back about 400 years I am English on my father's side. :)

[Jay]

Juliana wrote: "Hello! Slow at work at the moment! I'm so jealous of all you Brits! I need to meet a fella from the UK to take me back wih him! Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English it's all good! If you go back about 4..."

Hi, thanks for joining us! :)