{"id":2603,"date":"2009-05-12T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2009-05-12T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:00:35","slug":"pretty-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2009\/05\/pretty-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So at my signing on Saturday, I was talking with this guy.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not exactly a romance reader, although I think he was intrigued with <a href=\"http:\/\/shilohwalker.com\/excerpt_chains.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CHAINS.<\/a> Had a very cool accent, too.<\/p>\n<p>We got to talking about books.\u00a0 He&#8217;d read the back of <a href=\"http:\/\/shilohwalker.com\/excerpt_Hunters_Edge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">HUNTER&#8217;S EDGE<\/a>-loved the warning.\u00a0 The warnings from Samhain tend to amuse a lot of people.\u00a0 This one reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Warning: Some violence. Some sex. Some bloody violence. Even a little bit of bloody sex. Not all of the sex is between the hero and the heroine, even though every time that happens, the hero closes his eyes and thinks of <em>England<\/em> Angel. 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