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The week of asking for help continues.
I’m traveling out west to San Francisco next week to speak to the San Francisco Area Romance Writers chapter on how to bring comedy into romance: Romance–It’s No Laughing Matter. And I have a problem. Part of the workshop will be an interactive analysis of funny stuff. I’ll be using some Austen, probably something from Northanger Abbey, which has some very funny stuff, and I’m also using an excerpt from Getting Rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie. If you’re familiar with that book I’m using the brilliantly written scene where Zak meets Lucy’s dogs.
I need one more funny scene. What would you suggest? (I don’t want to use my own books. I hate it when author presentations turn into infomercials.)
Please suggest your favorite funny romances and you can even suggest scenes which would be even better! Next week I’ll be blogging from SF and it would be great to meet some Risky friends on August 10.
A correction–the Hutzler 517 has been updated to v.571, with increased functionality and wifi capabilities. Upgrades are available for earlier models.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to be You, chapter one.
The funniest meeting ever. Really.
Is that the one where the heroine is wearing a beaver costume?
Janet, it’s really hard to top your Regency romantic comedies, but a few that had me LOL : “An Angel for an Earl” and “Wedded Bliss” by Barbara Metzger (actually, most of her books have me cracking up), “The Butler Did It” by Kasey Michaels, and “The Accidental Duchess”by Jessica Benson. Also I just finished reading a book, written in 1909 by Mary Roberts Rhinehart called “When a Man Marries” that was a hoot! She had an incredibly unique sense of humor for back then, or so I’m guessing as that’s the first book I’ve read that was published during that time. It’s a very short read that I found on Nook books, and it was free. Well, there’s a start, yes?
Thanks so much for the suggestions!