October 18, 2006 • Print This Post
Have any of you been following the campaign raging in Texas for comptroller? The two candidates are Fred Head (real name) and Susan Combs. Susan published a novel back in 1990 for Meteor Kismet, a publisher that Brava editor Kate Duffy once worked for.
Fred is calling Susan’s traditional (read: non-erotic) romance novel “pornographic” and has posted excerpts of her book on his campaign website.
Here’s the latest article, which notes how Fred has angered many, many romance authors:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4267264.html
And here’s Fred’s website:
www.votefredhead.com
What do you think?
Joke of the day:
Love In The Morning
She is in the kitchen boiling eggs for breakfast.
He walks in and asks “What’s for breakfast?”
She turns to him and says, “You’ve got to make love to me this very moment.”
He, thinking it’s his lucky day, obliges.
Afterwards he says, “What was that all about?”
She says, “The egg timer’s broken!”
Posted by Sylvia Day @ 10:54 am • Filed under: Sylvia Day
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I’m just find the man totally mind-boggling. Somebody needs to buy the poor man a clue (or several) for his birthday and/or Christmas.
yep, he should check his facts
Bwah! to the joke. That’s classic.
And Fred Head … Good god. I mean, one, that’s an unfortunate name. And two, nothing Kismet published was remotely pornographic.
Of course, I suppose there are those who think any description of sex is pornographic, but come on.
The thing that really got me? The line about her name on the top of every other page, clearly showing her ambition and egomania, or whatever. Hello? Have you ever read a book where the author’s name *isn’t* featured in the running heads, Fred? Have you ever read a book at all, Fred? ::shakes head::
I saw that, Sylvia! Talk about twisting facts. It’s really sad that he’d base his compaign on calling his opponent a pornographer. I’m fairly certain that the position of Comptroller doesn’t require a skill in bashing romance novels…
I’ve been following up on this and it makes me so mad that he actually called the novel pornagraphic…ugh.
Love the joke…bet the guy felt bad afterwards, lol
The man is an idiot. Doesn’t he know that women have the right to vote now? Can you imagine how many he must have ticked off. I’m mad and I don’t even live in Texas.
I have been following this, and I am teed off with him and I live in Canada. I am sure he has seriously ticked off the women that can vote in Texas……….as for saying that the Authors name is at the top of the pages I too wonder if he has ever picked up a book. The name of the Author is at the top of the odd pages generally and the name of the story at the top of the even pages. I think he is really living in the dark ages.
I live in Houston and have been following this as well. My motto last week was ‘I’m a Texan and I VOTE’!!! I read the article you mentioned earlier today in the paper and get this, it was my husband that pointed it out to me!
Yeah, I’ve been following this too. The guy couldn’t make a point if his hands were arrows. It’s rather scary that he’s the DNC’s candidate.
I’ve been following the Head and Combs wrangle as much as the internet allows. And it’s amazing to me to see a Kismet described as pornographic. I wrote some of them back in the day, and they didn’t come close. But as so many posters have said on this board and others, pornography is in the mind of viewer. All I can say is I’m glad women are reading and writing love/sex scenes from the feminine point of view. Really, would we want to leave the writing of sex in the exclusive domain of the male sex? I don’t think so.
EC Sheedy
OMG, is this guy for real?! IMHO, he truly needs to get his head out of his nether regions and get a grip. Kismet - porn?!
I know if I was a voter in Texas, he wouldn’t get my vote…Susan would.