Christine McKay Got Snuggled Up To, Too. So There. ~Evil Grin~

Christine made me swear I wouldn’t post the photo.  So see?  I’m clearly not posting a photo with her in it.  But if you beg her enough in the comments section, she might unbend enough to let me post it, ‘coz it’s really cute.

Lemme explain.  Remember, oh, a few weeks ago, when I was talking about going to RomantiCon and that it would be a good opportunity to update my old me-and-the-boys photo?  (Here, and the old photo is to the left.)  Christine McKay commented on the photo and how she couldn’t take such a photo without turning beet red.

I didn’t realize at the time that she was a) an Ellora’s Cave author and b) going to RomantiCon, too.

In one of those little quirks of fate, Christine and her husband ended up sitting at our table at the banquet on Saturday night — yes, that infamous night when I distinguished myself by crying all over cover model Rodney Chapman.  (Oh, don’t know about that tale?  Go here and scroll for more details.)

As it happens, Christine won an RomantiCon Superstar Award herself that night.  I’ll let her tell you what she won hers for herself.  Yeah, I’m going to get her talking if it kills me. :D

Anyway, I saw her name tag, and mentally went “Oh dear….”  (Believe that if you want!)  Looked at Christine and said “Are you the Christine McKay I embarrassed on my blog a few weeks ago?”

She looked me in the eye.  “Yep.”

“OH DEAR…” I went again mentally.  (And you can believe that, too, if you want.)

So, being the uncouth in-like-Flynn Australian that I am, I just jumped in there with both feet.  “Ya know, I really think you should snuggle up to the cover models and get a photo with them!  They’re really very sweet! Do you want me to introduce you?  Mark and I were drinking with some of them in the bar last night.”

At which point, Christine started turning various shades of red and shrinking into her seat.  But her husband looked kinda interested.  “Really?” he said.

Mark immediately slunk away from the table.  Christine looked like she was going to take the top of my head off.  I mentally shrugged.  I’d already opened my mouth too far.  Might as well go all the way, huh?  I turned a bit and surveyed the cover models where they were all sitting.  “Which one’s the cutest, do you think?  I know Rodney and Bobby K pretty well.  Want me to have a word with them?  I’m sure they’d be happy to pose with you?”

Christine’s going beet red by now, but her husband is looking more and more happy.  Finally, he leans over to me and whispers “Do it!” while Christine chokes into her drink.  (Sorry, Christine, but he did.  You can kill him after you’ve read this.)

But before I can get to my feet, Mark wanders back to the table with two cover models in tow.  He hadn’t done a bunk after all.  He’d been rounding up the troops.  So before Christine had a chance to protest, or even recover, she was locked into a snuggle with two of the cutest cover models and we grabbed photos of her trying to pass out before it was all over.

Only, when I mentioned about running the photo on this blog, she said (and I’m paraphrasing) “If you dare put the photo on your blog, I will get you!  I’m a techie and I know databases.  I will bring your blog down, I swear!”

So, see, Christine?  Your photo is not up here.  Nu-uh.  Nowhere in sight.  But it’s very cute!!

Here’s my updated me-and-the-guys shot, though:

Christine, want to tell us about your award?

And can we run the photo, can we?  Can we? Pleeeeeease?

____

FOOTNOTE:  Monday November 2nd

Christine and I have been trading emails.  Yeah, she’s not going to relent or back down on this.  She won’t let me post the photo.  At all.  (But it’s so cute! But I take her database annhilation skills seriously, too.)

In the spirit of cooperation and world peace, though, I offered to upload the cover of her book, Brown Paper Packages, that won the  RomantiCon Superstar Award for the “Sexiest Gossip Columnist”.

And so I have (see, to the left?)

World Peace reigns.  In my corner of the world, anyway.  :D

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