Once again, I’m very happy to welcome Best selling author, Dianne Castell, on the blog tour of her lastest book, Hot and Irresistible. This virtual tour comes courtesy Pump Up Your Book Promotion. And I received a copy of this book for hosting this tour.
So my question today is… Are you a closet Southern Belle? Now you ask, Okay what the dickens makes a Southern Belle? Well, I just happen to have a little list…
Do you never wear white after Labor Day or before Easter
Do you own a strand of real pearls and wear them with pride
Always drink sweet tea and love it when they have it on the menu
A part of you truly believes in those Yankees Civil War? What Civil War? Now that unfortunate Northern Occupation…that you know about
Have Lee as part of your name or your children’s
Fav movies are GWTW and Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes
Actually read GWTW and reread parts from time to time. Wish you had the name Scarlet
Have a tiara hidden in your panty drawer and know how to twirl a baton
Have an umbrella that looks a bit like a parasol
Make sure your children know manners and use them
Love Red-eye gravy, grits, country ham and make your own biscuits
Know that prime real estate is The Mall, The Country Club and The Beauty Salon
Buy more then one can of hair spray at a time
Have actually said Y’all come back, Bless your your heart, Drop by when you can, How’s your mamma?
Love white gloves and wear hats
Have a subscription of Southern Living or ripped a recipe from that magazine at the doctor’s office
Have a pineapple decoration somewhere in your House
Think the magnolia is a piece of heaven on earth
And what about the food? Do you own a Paula Deen Cookbook? Catch her on TV whenever you can? Actually copied a recipe and made it and know how to make cream gravy from scratch and would rather poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick than put cool whip on your homemade pumpkin pie! Is there anything better than southern cooking? Well maybe Italian but that’s another blog.
So, how do you measure up? Is a part of you a Southern Belle? Know someone who is? I really tried to keep these characteristics in mind when writing Hot and Bothered. A gal in NY city is way different than a gal in Savannah and I sure wanted it to feel that way.
I am definitely a closet Southern Belle! I do make fried chicken and bathtub gravy. That’s what my kids call my cream gravy because they could eat a bathtub full of it. I do make my own pies, have white gloves, crab at my kids if they don’t use their manners, buy extra-hold hair spray, subscribe to Southern Living, have a fancy umbrella that I’ve been known to twirl from time to time and do know how to twirl a baton for real. Even took lessons.
On the Southern Belle scale I’m about a 7. What about you? What is your Southern Belle Score?
Thanks for being here!
Hugs, Dianne Castell
USA Today best selling author Dianne Castell writes for Kensington BRAVA. She also writes a monthly editor interview column for Romance Writers Report. Her books have won Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, been on the cover of Romantic Times Magazine and included in Rhapsody Book Club, Doubleday Book Club and have made the Waldenbooks Bestseller list.
The second book in her Savannah Sizzles series for the BRAVA line, Hot and Irresistible, hits the shelves Nov‘09. Hot Summer Nights is out May ’10.
Dianne lives in Cincinnati with her two cats and will do just about anything to get out of housework.
You can visit her website at www.DianneCastell.com.
Now, my cheeks are true Scarlet for indeedy, I’m nowhere near to being a Southern Belle. Score=0. What about you?!
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