Comments on: Nerd Chat with Hilary Davidson + Giveaway of THE DAMAGE DONE

By: Carol M

Carol M — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:01:56 +0000

I just rewired a lamp of my grandmother’s that wouldn’t work.

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By: Kathy P

Kathy P — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:30:37 +0000

Email and GFC subscriber.

Fixing things…that’s what Moms do…nothing spectacular but sometimes very essential!

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By: Carol Wong

Carol Wong — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:11:16 +0000

I inherited a small Japanese vase that was my mother’s and it broke into several places on our move to Texas. Also, My son brought me a glass bottle with a beautiful bird painting on it from my daughter-in-law. The top of it broke during the plane trip from Beijing. I has saved some glue from a Chinese puzzle that I had and fixed both of them up. You can’t even see any cracks.

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By: Paulette

Paulette — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:48:55 +0000

Fabulous interview! I am usually a damager, not a fixer! However, I did fix the coffee brewer by discovering that it had been set to auto brew; I flipped the switch and it worked like a charm! I saved us from a caffiene-deprived morning. I don’t think I “fix” them, but sure do give a lot of temporary, keep-them-running-for-now fixes to some pretty damged kids I encounter in my classroom. I am not so generous as Jann–I just recently won a book and want to win this one too!

By: EIREGO

EIREGO — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:35:51 +0000

Hilary Davidson seems pretty badass. So, YES!, I would like to get a free copy of her book.

Nothing was broken or really damaged. It was just my niece, Lydia, who went into uncontrollable fits of crying and hyperventilating one day when I was visiting her parents. I was just arriving at their house when her brother came rushing up to the car before I could even stop and open the door. He begged me to come help calm his little sister down. Everyone inside the house was panicking and ready to call 911. I scooped up the 14 month old and went into the next room where I started singing and dancing with her. Guess I confused her enough to make her forget why she was crying. She began to laugh and the crisis was averted. They call me the Kid Whisperer. Hope that qualifies because it would make the money I spent getting all those T-Shirts made up with Kid Whisperer and Friend of Kid Whisperer worth it.

By: Jann

Jann — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:21:25 +0000

Thanks for the great interview Elyse! I’ll make a point of seeing her at M is for Mystery if I miss her at Bouchercon.
BTW, I just won a book so I’m not looking for another freebie so soon, but the most irreparably damaged would have to be my husband…after being diagnosed with MS at 42 and being forced to retire at 48. It’s been 6 years but he has rejoined the human race…yay!

By: Reader#9

Reader#9 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:09:02 +0000

Well, obviously, everyone wants to win, but no one is actually entering this contest by recounting something they fixed though others thought it was damaged beyond repair. Good interview, PCN, now let’s see what I can come up with to qualify for the giveaway.

Coming back from a college road trip during our Winter semester, the car seven of us had piled into decided to break down. A storm was raging outside and none of us were mechanically inclined or belonged to triple A. Not a cellphone among us either. No engine running meant no heater to keep us from freezing. No chance of traffic at midnight on a Wednesday in the rural mountains of New Hampshire. We were at least 5 miles away from campus with ten inches of snow on the ground and more falling every minute. None of us were dressed for that kind of walk. We discussed our options for about an hour while the cold sobered us up. Just as we decided we would have try jogging our way back to school, I decided to look under the hood one more time and see if I could do anything. I wiggled some wires, rotated a couple of things and told our driver to turn the key one more time. And it started! Could not freaking believe it. The driver put it in gear and we took off toward school. It conked out again as we pulled into the parking lot.

I was a hero for most of that week.

By: steve weddle

steve weddle — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:58:00 +0000

Very cool. Lily could use some krav maga. Sheesh. That’s a tough world in THE DAMAGE DONE.

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:41:51 +0000

I am an email subscriber and would like to win this wonderful mystery.

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:01:58 +0000

Great interview, Elyse. I’m looking forward to seeing Hilary at The Mystery Bookstore on her book tour. Thanks for this.