Aren’t those covers special? I’m so glad you still have the original collection. It’s truly precious. I have duplicates on most but for those originals I was able to take home are truly very special.

However, the ones my husband took so much effort in finding, I’ll always treasure. How many husbands would go out and buy a gazillion books for his wife?

Thanks again for the warm comment,

Karen in California

As an unpublished writer, I found your post inspirational and think it’s fantastic that you have made your first sale so quickly and at such a “young” age

I too love Presents and totally relate to what you wrote

Cheers, Joanne

Hey Karen – what a wonderful hubby you have… I’m ‘the usual’ in that I started reading my Grandmothers – but a little more unusual in that my Grandmother lived with us (Grandma was our At-Home Mum, and Mum went to work!) – she passed on too many years ago now, but we still have her books and I would never, ever part with them. Like you talking about it, for me just reading those ones, seeing the covers… makes me think of her… and its lovely

I love this blog and wish the very best to you all,

Karen in California

Dani, I am now picturing a room plastered with Presents covers — I think it’s my new “happy place”…
~Amy

Lidia, how wonderful to hear your love of Presents has endured, you’re right about it being a fabulous line of writers and it is such an honour to become a part of that.

Marian and Mulberry, thanks for your congratulations and warm welcome, and Marian I love that cathartic sigh at the end! Ahh….

Karen/Susanna, reading your story was a joy – how magical, and what a romantic hero of your own you have. I must try and get hold of a copy of Fire and Ice! I love hearing about women passing the love of Presents on, particularly through generations from mother to daughter. And how wonderful Danny that you’ve recently got your Grandmother hooked. I’m currently in the process of converting my Mum!

Dani I’m glad you enjoyed the post My husband never used to understand why I’d want to read lots of ‘the same’ either, but I’ve always argued that it’s no different from him reading a science fiction series or the James Bonds, for example. (And now he is thoroughly re-educated!)
I adore the covers too and I have some postcard versions I found in a card shop ages ago stuck around my office. I can’t wait to find out what my first is going to look like. I knew it was going to be out in the UK in Feb but I’ve just found out it will be on the shelves in North America in March 09 – twice as exciting!

Hi Sharon! I now have a vision of cavemen chipping out erotic pictures on cave walls – an inspiration as always! Thanks again for all your priceless advice and encouragement without which I wouldn’t be here now . . .

Writing for Presents is the best job in the world.
Love
Sharon xx

As for the ‘universal’ appeal of Presents, my father never understood it. I remember him asking me why I was picking up a dozen at a time at the (same as you, Sabrina!) second hand store. I don’t know what possessed me, but I said, “You know the pictures on the covers? I want to paper my room in them.” He got the most puzzled look, maybe trying to imagine a room covered in intimate embraces or maybe trying to decide if we should have the fight about putting holes in the walls right there in the car…

Anyway, I’m sure he still doesn’t know what the appeal is for me, but he knows I’m stoked on writing them.

Thanks for a great post, Sabrina! Congratulations on your sale.
Dani

As a bit of a reversal on the usual story, I seem to have got my Grandmother hooked on them as well. It’s a fun thing to share.