Kentucky-It's just that friendly---that is our state motto. I don't know much about the rest of the country but in my little corner of the world 99% of the people are friendly and polite. The company I used to work for was bought by a bigger company from Lancaster PA, so we had a lot of visitors from up north and I found that they were all very nice people, but on one trip down they told us as they were driving through a very small town to get to our small town thwt people were out in the yard mowing or gardening or just relaxing and as they drove by they would wave, they all wanted to know why all these people were waving at them? One girl even asked me what they wanted. I had to laugh, they just wanted to be friendly and say howdy. Very friendly part of the world, even complete strangers. Store clerks and waitresses all ask how are you doing today, and they chit chat about the weather and just life. I'm very lucky.

Hi Timallan - Sorry, I didn't know you were ONLY referring to fiction writers. (Also, I noticed I spelled his name wrong -- it's Coupland, not Copeland.) I never had contact w/the publishing industry except a couple of office temping assignments; so I wasn't privy to any of their deep, dark secrets ! Your post just above has opened my eyes. There's so much openness about sexual identity now adays, that I took it for granted that there wasn't any prejudice by publishers re gay novelists (as long as they're good writers, of course!). But, saying that, I just remembered --- what about the popularity of Alan Hollinghurst, the British novelist? He writes wonderful, serious novels about gay men, gets very good reviews from top critics. Even though not gay myself, I like his books. "The Line of Beauty" was the first one I read, and have read another one since. Both good, and definitely NOT funny. Re "chick-lit." -- I agree w/one of the posters way above in this thread ... to me it's light, frothy stories about -- usually -- young women looking for love and designer clothes! Some of these writers are more deep -- at times -- and, also, may feature one or two "older women" besides the young ones. Cathy Kelly is one of the few of these genre that I've really liked. Her stories are exciting, with depth of thought and feeling -- she makes me care what happens to the characters. To me that's the sign of a good writer, whether of the "Literary" or "Chick-lit." genre.

I did get Voluma, as well as Botox. Voluma in my cheeks and temples, and Botox in my brow area and chin. I absolutely love the Voluma, and feel it made a huge difference in giving my face a needed "lift" without looking overdone/fake. It was a little more intense than getting the Botox (ok, it actually hurt in a couple of spots where it was injected close to the bone), but I will absolutely keep it up. It's worth every bit of discomfort and every penny that it cost me.

I just discovered this a few weeks ago in an older GW thread. I would love to have it done when I have extra money; it's like $750 or so and only lasts a few years. I don't know if my brows are actually thinner now or just seem that way because full brows are trendy? I think the close up pics look great-at least online. I asked my daughter's teen friends (one in the beauty industry) about it and no one has heard of it yet so still a new thing where Iive in south Jersey.