My Ongoing Writing Journey by Eleri Grace

Well, this month's topic is top-of-mind for me as I try once again to reclaim the creativity & momentum that the pandemic stole! 

My third novel was about halfway complete in spring 2020, as I released the second novel of my Clubmobile Girls series in May 2020 with every intention of publishing that 3rd novel in 2021. It's now about 75% complete, which is truly disheartening . . . for me and for my hero and heroine who are eagerly awaiting their happily-ever-after ending!

It's probably not fair to completely blame the pandemic, which, after all, became fairly manageable for most of us more than a year ago. But as I've struggled with writer's block and writing anxiety, I've realized that your writing muscles need to be stretched and used consistently every bit as much as your physical body. I dropped the group exercise classes I had done for decades during the pandemic, and even though I religiously walked (and still walk) 2 miles every morning, rain or shine, I don't have the flexibility, muscle tone or waistline I had 3 years ago. Adding some variety into my exercise routine and building back up to where I was before is one of my 2023 goals. 

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My writing muscles likewise stagnated, beginning with those earliest months of the pandemic when I found it hard to focus on anything other than televised pandemic coverage and where to find toilet paper. What I should have done, courtesy of 20-20 hindsight, was force myself to keep those muscles limber and lean. I managed to get focused enough to release a short novelette for the holidays in 2021, but 2022 yielded no publications at all (not great for the Amazon algorithms). For many of us, writing is hard work. It requires as much focus, persistence and discipline as creativity. Even if my creativity was in short supply during the hardest times of the pandemic, I probably ought to have forced myself to write something, anything, on a consistent basis to keep that part of my identity alive. I often joked that I was probably going to look back and kick myself for not having written multiple books during those months of forced seclusion and isolation. And sure enough, I do indeed regret that I didn't capitalize more on how few other demands there often were on my time. 

Pandemic aside, I think another factor has contributed to this long dry spell for me. On my writing journey, I've flip-flopped in terms of my style -- some people are clearly a plotter or a pantser. Me? I've tried it both ways and am now coming to the conclusion that maybe I'm more of a hybrid. I was a pantser with first "practice novel" (a contemporary romance that will never see the light of day) and the first Clubmobile Girls novel. But during the editing process for that first Clubmobile Girls book, I learned that at least some plotting would have saved me lots of headaches and time during the editing and revision stages. So I went the opposite direction with my second novel, creating a detailed outline and accompanying Excel spreadsheet (I kid you not). And it worked! It really did actually work -- I finished the second novel far faster and it required far less editing work on the whole than had been the case with my debut novel. 

I had started an outline with this third novel, but then my creativity faltered when it was time to pace the characters through the typical beats for the final third of the story. I attempted at that point to pants my way through that final third. Alas, that has not worked as well as I might have hoped. After months (okay, at least a year!) in limbo, floundering and making one excuse after another to myself and to readers who wondered when my next book would be released, I decided it was time to try something new. Last month, I worked with a dear friend and writing coach, Caroline Leech, to help me brainstorm through the plot possibilities for my characters and their story. I'm now excited about the story again and energized at last to start really pushing through to the end. 

I think I probably am the type writer who needs both a strong skeletal structure and outline for the high points, even if I also need and want the flexibility to deviate and pants my way through some of the scenes. I plan to try that out with my next novel -- once *this one* is done that is!  

You can learn more about me and my writing on my website or follow me on social media accounts at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. My Clubmobile Girls series is available on Amazon. 

Everything old CAN be new again...by Peggy Jaeger

 Last year I was cleaning and trashing old files on my computer because my memory storage was getting low and I was not in a situation to purchase a new laptop. I think back to that day when I was trolling through all the stuff I had deemed "unnecessary" and am so happy I decided to cull.

In so doing, I discovered a wealth of stories I'd written many moons ago that I just knew I could rework, edit, and publish now that I was an indie author.

I even found a new publisher for one of the stories that lead to a 5 book deal!

MERRY'S GHOST was written in the late 1990s when I was a part-time nurse and full-time wife and mother. When I wrote the story I was heavy into reading Paranormal books and decided, "I can write a ghost book, too." At the time I simply wrote because I loved writing. I never tried to get an agent or a publisher for the book but just put it into a file of completed stories. When I rediscovered it last year I happened to see a Twitter ad for Magnolia Blossom Publishing on the same day.

Serendipity? Perhaps. 

I printed out the book, changed a few things and updated the text and sent out a query to Magnolia. 

The book was bought and then published 4 months later, with the added bonus that Magnolia offered me a 5 book deal. So far 2 books in the ROMANTIC HAUNTINGS series have gone to print, MERRY'S GHOST and THE HAUNTING OF WILTON JUNE, and I'm working on book 3 now.

I found another book ( and PNR) I'd penned a few years after Merry's Ghost that I'd titled RENEWAL.

It was about a small-town Western Sheriff and a visiting psychic from New York. When I wrote this one I had been experimenting with different writing styles and putting a lot more effort into the more steamier scenes. I remember blushing in my office when I re-read a few of them, LOL.

Anyway. I loved the story and as I was editing it I decided I could make it a series because there were a few hunky co-stars that needed good women. Thus, THE SHERIFF & THE PSYCHIC ( WELCOME TO RENEWAL book1 ) was born and released this year.

I've written about this before, but last year Amazon introduced a new serialization format called KINDLE VELLA. I currently have 4 books published on the platform, all of them murder mysteries and thrillers I wrote over 30 years ago. I modernized them after finding them and then published them on the platform. I have to tell you I've been making a killer, moneywise, from those stories. I made more money in one month with my two most read stories, VINDICATION and THE JANE AUSTEN MURDERS, than I did all of 2020 with my normal book sales.

Crazy, but true.

What's that saying? Old stories never die they just get re-editied??? So true in my case. So true.

I write (mostly!) romcoms about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who simply can't live without them. Visit me on my website Peggyjaeger.com where I blog daily about things that make me go, "What??"

Happy Blog-O-Versary!!!! By Peggy Jeager

Wow, 10 years!! That's an amazing run in the blog-o-sphere! A heartfelt congratulations to the ROMANCING THE GENRES hosts for all the informative, fun, and worthwhile blog posts over this past decade.

So, I had to come up with something denoting "10" for this month...and you know what? It wasn't hard, heehee. Since this is a blog about writing, writers, and books, an idea popped into my head without any thought - and I lovelovelove when that happens because it's so rare.

I love a good top 10 list, but unlike Letterman, I don’t like going backward. Here, in no apparent or meaningful order, are my top 10 favorite books (who just so happen to have been written by my favorite authors.) The books I love to read are as eclectic and varied as the books I love to write!

The Little Engine That could – best book about self-motivation and self-actualization ever written.

Naked in Death – the first JD Robb book. 50+ books later the futuristic police procedural romance series is still at the height of its game.

Pride and Prejudice – This one needs no explanation!

Gone with the Wind – Dated for these times, I know,  but in its time it was a true masterpiece at explaining the once ( horrible) southern way of life.

Under the Banner of Heaven – A detailed look –through a modern murder mystery – of the origins of the Mormon Church. Fascinating and terrifying.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Take a true crime story, add in a plethora of quirky characters and a setting almost as diverse as its occupants, and this book is a social treatise on American culture: Separate but equal is never truly separate or equal.

New York to Dallas – Another JD Robb story in which the heroine confronts her tortured past, kicks it in the ass, and moves forward with the love of Roarke by her side. This is my favorite in the entire In Death series and the only one without the IN DEATH tagline.

To Have and to Hold – The first book in Lauren Layne’s Wedding belles series. And the first time I was introduced to this amazing author.

Wife by Wednesday book 1 in the Weekday Bride series by Catherine Bybee – Just love a quirky woman in a powerful occupation and position.

The Bible – I mean, come on! It’s filled with love, murder, family drama, social mores and political intrigue. What more could you want??!!

DO you have a top ten list of books? I can truly admit that most of these books I've read more than once. Some, more than 3 or 4 times ( New York to Dallas). And yes, I know it's hard to name only 10!!!! Hee hee

Happy Anniversary, ROMANCING THE GENRES! I'm so happy to be here.

I've got a new Holiday Novella dropping on June 7.

SANTA BABY ( A Dickens Holiday Prequel - Dorrit's Diner) is a short, heartwarming story about a diner owner, a cop, and a baby abandoned on Christmas Eve. You can preorder it right now here: UniLink

It’s Christmas Eve morning in the tiny New England town of Dickens.

Santa’s arrival is imminent, and a hint of snow is in the air.

Amy Dorrit is just about to open her popular diner for the breakfast rush when she discovers an abandoned baby on her back doorstep.

Amy knows she should call the authorities and turn the infant over to them, but she just can’t. Thoughts of her own abandonment as a baby flood through her and she wants to keep the little one out of the hands of the authorities until the mother – hopefully –returns.

But will the mom come back? And if she doesn’t, what is Amy prepared to do about the baby who has, already, claimed her heart?

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Starting over...with a little wisdom

 One of my favorite quotes of all time is from the amazeballs Maya Angelou, and I repeat it to myself often. 

Never has this thought been so profound in my writing life as it is right now.

When I started writing as a child I wrote like a, well, child. My short stories were a series of "and then his happened-s,"  run on sentences, and prose packed with adverbs, flowery descriptions and analogies that had no real comparatory basis behind them. My fiction read more like a diary entry than actual crafted story telling. But I found great joy in the writing.

My graduate thesis was written from a scientific methodology viewpoint, and reads like the driest medical tome ever penned. Facts, figures, graphs, statistics. Boring with a capital BORING. But I loved writing it.

As I began writing non-fiction articles on motherhood and the life of a 30-something for magazines after I had my daughter, I wrote with an easy, I'm-just-talking-to-you-over-coffee style. Nothing craft-heavy at all, no real plot or story structure, just a simple imparting of info laced with humor and self deprecating insights. Writing these articles was a labor of love that made me feel lighter and more confident with myself as a new mother and a woman trying to navigate through a crazy world.

Even blog writing, which is more of a conversation with me in the driver's seat brings me a sense of purpose and accomplishment. I can pop a blog post out in less than a half hour most days, never have to edit it for content - only spelling mistakes - and then hit post without worry. Love that!

When I first began writing fiction in my 50's I knew nothing about plot, structure, conflict, subplot, sub-text, or character motivation. I simply had a story in my head and wanted to get it on paper. I look at my debut romance novel, SKATER'S WALTZ from The Wild Rose Press, now and think, yeah, it was a decent story...but really could have been better. But I wrote that book with such joy in my heart during a time in my life that was very challenging. The sense of accomplishment and utter jubilation that it was actually published was a top ten event in my life.

Now that I write romantic fiction in a few sub-genres - RomCom, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense lite - I have to write in a way that brings the reader into the story, gets them hooked on the characters, and that leaves them at the end of the book satisfied and wanting more from me. I have an obligation to the reader to present a satisfying product to them.

No easy feat, this, and one which - daily - gives me agita! I've gotten too worried  this past year about selling books, marketing, and learning new digital ways to publish just to get my books in front of people that I've lost my way a little in the writing from my heart department. The joy just hasn't been there and I think it's shown in my writing.

So, after close to 30 books published, I've decided to do something that sounds a bit crazy, and, in all honesty, probably is.

I'm starting over. 

See? Crazy.

What it really means is that I'm going back to basics, armed with the wisdom I've managed to gather these past 5 years since I was first published. Readers want a story that they can tell the author just loved writing. They want to fall in love with the hero and heroine much the same way the characters fell in love with one another, and that the writer did as well as she was bringing them to life.

I want that, too.

Those are the books I want to read, the stories I want to fill my soul. 

They are also the stories I want to write.

So, with age and experience, comes wisdom and I am taking that wisdom into 2021 and writing my heart out. I've got a list of books that will be written and released this year, some traditionally published and several new indie releases as well. I'm not worrying about marketing, sales, getting on bestseller lists, or even winning any awards this year.

What I am going to do is simply write my heart out because that's what makes me happy. And I know when I'm happy, my readers are, too.

See? I know better now...so I'm going to do better.

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Focus for 2021 and Bye for Now by Dora Bramden

 

Whenever I turn my mind to planning the year ahead, I usually come up with a word that lets me focus on what I feel needs my attention most. What will my priority be for the coming year? I have had words like travel, family, marriage, study, and health. The word enables me to not get lost in the many pressing responsibilities of raising a family, working a job and running a home.

While all of those things still have to happen, the focus word of that year has to be included in my decision-making process. You’ll notice that I haven’t mentioned my career. As yet it hasn’t ever been a priority but this year as a milestone birthday approaches I believe it’s time.  I really need to put my career in front of my mind if I want to achieve long held goals.

As a writer, I have been in a treading water mode for various good reasons, but now I need to make time and reserve energy for turning my many ideas for projects into reality. There is so much I wish to get written so that it can be shared and I feel it in my soul that that time has arrived.

In terms of new beginnings, it will be a new work schedule for me. I still need to provide administration support to my teacher husband and run our home but there will be time carved out for working on projects that are close to my heart. As a part of my restructuring, this month will be my last regular blog contribution. I hope to be a guest blogger later in the year with news of my progress.

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to be part of this wonderful team of authors and for the support of the readership. In writing my monthly blogs I’ve always tried to share my truth and inspire or uplift. I wish to continue this through my novels and so have come to this decision.

Thanks so much to Sarah and  Judith  for having me on Romancing the Genres and for running a blog that showcases romance authors and their work.

Finally, I wish everyone the best of health, happiness and prosperity in the coming year.

Dora Bramden writes heart-melting, passionate, romance.

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Love In Isolation

By Cassandra O'Leary 

The Romance Writers of Australia conference was a little different this year, as most things are in 2020, the year of the plague. COVID-19 Has meant many changes to our daily lives here in Australia, and especially where I live in Melbourne. For international readers who may not be aware, Melbourne has the dubious honour of being the home of Australia's worst virus outbreaks to date. 

I'm currently living in Stage 4 lockdown with my two boys, with a limit of one hour of exercise outdoors each day, or a trip to the shops for essential items only, a curfew after 8 pm and restriction on travel within a 5 km radius of my house. Masks are essential for anyone over the age of 12. My husband is having a different experience to me since his work hasn't stopped, being considered an essential worker, so he's out most days and still seeing co-workers and customers. I'm at home, my kids have online schooling only, and it's getting a little claustrophobic! And I'm mighty sick of Grade 3 maths tasks! 

The Romance Writers of Australia 2020 conference, dubbed Love In Isolation, ran from 12-16 August and it was a welcome distraction and mental challenge. Unlike previous conferences I attended in person, I didn't get the full experience of staying in a nice hotel with my writing friends, hanging out in the hotel bars or cafes. But the online content was great, and the conference team should be congratulated for pivoting after the Fremantle, Western Australian conference could no longer go ahead. Travel restrictions are in place between Australian states and international guests would not have been permitted to enter the country. Instead, the conference team organised an online version that included live streamed workshops and pre-recorded seminars, running on the Webinar Ninja platform. 

I particularly enjoyed locking myself in my bedroom with my laptop while my husband looked after the kids for most of the weekend, and immersing myself in writing and marketing topics. Liz Pelletier, editor and publisher from Entangled Publishing, gave a fascinating live workshop which covered what it takes to create and market a bestselling romance book. I enjoyed learning about her way of looking at genre fiction books as a type of content similar to computer software, with the story structure, function e.g. filling an emotional/relaxation need for readers, 'user experience' and packaging (such as branded ads and book covers) all having equal weight. There was a lot to think about and consider, especially for an author like myself being hybrid (self publishing as well as traditional publishing), as Entangled is doing things differently to many indies and their competitors.

Another highlight included author Rachel Bailey's session on Sparkling Dialogue, with examples from the classic movie Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, as well as recent romance novels. Who wouldn't want to write funny quips like Cary and Audrey sling at each other? The combination of an online workshop with a Facebook group chat afterwards to ask questions, was a popular option with attendees.

The most information dense and complex presentation I watched was one by Ricardo Fayet from Reedsy, on Taking The Next Step in Facebook Advertising. This included an overview of how to set up multiple FB ads based on Interests and similar authors (think bigger names in your own sub-genres) and testing various artwork or short videos to see which are the most popular in terms of clicks and sales. I really want to go through his presentation again with a fine-toothed comb when I have a bit more time and brain-power, to learn his tricks and put them into action. 

The conference content will be online for three months, allowing time to go back and digest information or watch sessions missed the first time. This is fantastic, since I can work in ‘chunks’ and hopefully fit in some more conference sessions in between all my other mum-life stuff. 

Love In Isolation was a winner, but it left a kind of melancholy behind in its wake. I missed the real life connections with my fellow writers this year, the social interactions and the pure fun of dressing up and getting together with like-minded women (for the most part, but there are a few blokes usually at RWAus). My work hasn’t taken off like a proverbial rocket after conference this year, but instead I feel reluctant to write, hoping for inspiration to come in a difficult time. 

I suppose it’s always hard to write in isolation, but this year, I’m finding it more difficult than usual. Lockdown is starting to feel like an endless Groundhog Day, parenting and cleaning and cooking ad infinitum with little chance to escape the house or to retreat into a different mental space where happy endings are standard. This isn’t business as usual, and I can’t pretend it is, even if I am a fiction writer. I know The End will come soon, but all this foreshadowing is really starting to hurt my head! 

Author’s note: This will be my last regular blog for Romancing The Genres. I’ve enjoyed my time as a regular contributor here, but I find with ongoing health issues (headaches, autoimmune problems etc.) and the current lockdown with kids, I don’t have the time or concentration to devote to blogging. I hope to pop-in with a couple of guest blogs in the future though! 

About Cassandra O'Leary

Cassandra O’Leary is an author, freelance writer, avid reader, communications specialist and admirer of pretty, shiny things! In 2015, Cassandra won the global We Heart New Talent contest run by HarperCollins UK, and her debut romantic comedy novel, Girl on a Plane, was then published in 2016.

Cassandra has also independently published novellas and short stories, all while chasing her two mini ninjas around her home city of Melbourne, Australia. You’ll find Cassandra drinking coffee and hanging out on social media, musing about books and buying shoes on the internet…oh yes, and writing.

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A Teaser Chapter You Say?

I am excited to report that I’m currently putting the final touches on the second novel in my Clubmobile Girls series (look for a cover reveal on Diary of an Eccentric: Writings of an Eccentric Bookworm next week and on my social media thereafter).

So while many of us are experiencing trouble summoning our creative muse or focusing generally (count me in both camps), the tedium of inputting line edits provided the perfect (and productive) distraction from the news and my worries. I received my line edits in late February just as everyday life began to shut down for many of us. Aha! Line edits: this I can focus on. With far less to do in my other lines of work than typical, I was able to turn those edits back to my editor much more quickly than might have been normally the case, and now I’m putting in the final round of line edits/copyedits.

Wonderful, right? Well, this past week, I dusted off the various components of front matter and back matter Word documents from my first novel so they would be ready to go with the manuscript to my formatter this week. Publication pages for both print and e-book, a dedication page, a quotation page, reviews/praise for the first book, the call to action (plea for reviews/ratings), the author’s historical note, the acknowledgments section . . . and then, I realized what I did not have at all: a teaser chapter for the next book in the series. Oops.

I spent a few days convinced that I could dash off at least a first scene, if not a full-fledged chapter. I know the third book will take place in India! But, no, wait, it might end up being in Burma. Okay, but if the heroine arrives in early 1943, she won’t go straight to Burma, which was then under Japanese control, so I can still show her arrival in India. Sure, that seems reasonable. So, will I open with her stepping off the ship into the steamy streets of Bombay? Wait, did the troopships dock in Bombay at all or only Karachi or Calcutta? I don’t know. The back-and-forth with myself, as I say, went on for a couple of days last week.  

Panic eventually gave way to reason. I’m not going to have a teaser chapter by next week (or even by next month when the book officially releases), and I just have to make my peace with that. Rather than hastily throwing something together that might ultimately have to be scrapped entirely, I think it makes more sense to just eliminate that stress from my writing life in these trying times.

I may write a short note to my readers explaining that I spend several months reading widely and deeply about the theater of the war in which my novel will be set before I begin any writing at all. I have read all the available Red Cross Girl memoirs from the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater, but I now will turn to exploring online oral histories that will shed more light on the experiences of the ARC staff in these remote and challenging locations. And I’ve truly only begun the reading that will bear on the hero’s story.  So . . . no teaser chapter.

As many of us are noting on this blog, this is a good time to simply be kind to yourself and to others around you. We’re all dealing with much more than the ordinary stress, so there’s no point making things worse on that score. I hope all of you are taking time to get some fresh air each day, relax as you can, and spend time with your family and friends, whether physically in your household or virtually. Take care everyone!

Learn more about me and my writing on my website, and you can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Remember, you can check these sites later next week to see the cover and read the sales blurb for my second novel in the series.

You can purchase my debut novel through the links below.

Amazon US  ~  Amazon UK  ~  Amazon CA  ~  Amazon AU  ~  Google ~ Nook  ~ Kobo

My Favorite "First" came a little later in life than expected! by Peggy Jaeger

So, this month's topic is Favorite Firsts. I had so many things swirl around in my head, that deciding on what to write about was a bit more difficult than usual.
Should I tell you about my first love? First memory? First apartment? First job?
See? Lot's of things to talk about, but I decided that since this is -- at its essence -- a writing blog, I would tell you my absolute favorite first - my first published book!

I came a little late to the world of published book authors. I was 55 when my very first novel - a romance - was published. I could have self published years earlier, but didn't want to. I grew up with the cache of what being a traditionally published author meant and I wanted my very first foray into the publishing world to be with the backup of a known publisher.

You may think that the reason this is my favorite first is because it finally got me in front of the the reading world. Well, that isn't really the reason. I'd been a successful non-fiction writer for years, with many credits in Nursing journals and newspapers/magazines devoted to parenting topics, child care, and nursing/health issues. I'd also had a stream of good luck with fiction short story publications in Literary magazines and anthologies.

No, the reason this is my favorite first is because it came about in Cinderella fashion ( which also happens to be my favorite fairytale, so double SCORE!)

In 2013 I decided to enter a romance writing contest I found listed in a writing magazine. I submitted the required 3 chapters of a story I'd written while in the throes of menopause induced insomnia. Long story short - I won my division - contemporary romance category. Yay.

I thought that was the end of it and went back to not sleeping and sweating like a farm animal in the dead of summer.

Two weeks later I received an email from Rhonda Penders, the publisher of The Wild Rose Press.

She had been my judge for the contest. She asked me to send her the completed manuscript for possible consideration for publication. I did. A WRP editor read it and asked for a few changes. I made them. Then I received the email that changed my  life forever: WRP wanted to publish my book and wanted to know if I had any others.

Um- you betcha I did!!

That book, SKATER'S WALTZ, launched my second act and my writing career. I quit my day job ( really, I did!) and have been a full-time writer every since.

20+ books  and 5 years later I am now almost 60 and I have never been happier. I am a  better writer every day and every day I thank that damn menopause insomnia for giving me something to do when I was wide awake from midnight to five a.m! Hee hee

Fairy tales come true all the time you just don't hear about them.  This was mine.

Bio and Social links:

Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer!

Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.

When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.

A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, Peggy is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.

As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"

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