Mark Sexton - 02/22/00 13:36:36
My URL:http://geocities.datacellar.net/SoHo/Museum/7875
My Email:mark_robin_sexton@hotmail.com

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Very impressive, the sustained creativity shown here is astounding! Keep up the good work Mark

- 01/20/00 19:54:00

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Kerri Chyka - 01/14/00 22:22:46
My Email:kacmadness@hotmail.com

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"Waylaid" was great! Thanks for the very cool journey!

Occasional Rain - 12/31/99 02:05:04
My URL:http://ocasrain.tripod.com/index.html
My Email:ocasrain@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Laura!

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Well, I like the story, I never heard of "Waylaid on the Road to Riches" before!? I found this site by someone who signed a guestbook on a "x-files" page =). Well my website brings in stories into other people's homes, and I'd LOVE to have yours in it! Just check my site out, adn give me an email =). Bye!

Scott Wilson - 12/29/99 14:27:04
My Email:sweetwil@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will&Sebastian/Vesper

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I am sitting here waiting with baited breath... Waylaid has held my attention almost all year (with breaks for holidays and then recent y2k urgency installed episodes filling in) and am enthralled to see what happens... will all of my suspicions be fulfil ed (well, most likely never) but will Will & Jack live happily ever after????(OH WE know it will!) Will Sebastian find true love and sacrifice his twisted heart?????... (Only If MR C will get me a green Card when he finds a wife for me!!!) Vesper can go k ow that MR Right is in the Picture! Congratulations on a great read and lots of character assasination/assignation. The two of you deserve a bow!!! XXX Scott (Sydney)

Sara Greenwald - 11/09/99 16:00:43
My URL:http://www.sfo.com/~sarapeyton
My Email:sarapeyton@sfo.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: secundus

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Cool project. I've got a novel at http://www.sfo.com/~sarapeyton

c.a.baxter - 11/08/99 20:35:29
My Email:c.a.baxter@mailcity.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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Kudos! I didn't see "Naked and Wet" coming! Very surprising! I can't wait until the next chapter! Where will the story end! Thanks again for all your efforts.

Victor Holbert - 10/25/99 18:06:00
My Email:drvph@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: The cat

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The CAT??? THE CAT???? I don't deserve any better than that? I am wounded!

Zelig - 10/01/99 21:38:43
My Email:Zelig_7@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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AhH!! I've been away for a while (they finally let me out).. and caught up on a few chapters.. Utterly amazing!! (also, glad to hear the wee kittn' is doing better after the NY incident...) I'm on pins an needles waiting for the next installment.. (and I"m not really into that sort of thing) -wee kit'. `miss you..

c.a.baxter - 07/22/99 21:31:06
My Email:c.a.baxter@mailcity.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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Where has "Waylaid" gone? July 1st has come and gone and no chapter 30...I hope it hasn't gotten waylaid itself...

- 07/21/99 03:04:57

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Ann Keen - 05/13/99 14:51:34
My Email:ann_keen@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will & Laura

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I like the adventures thus far, but sneak them up to the frozen tundra of Minnesota during the winter. Put them in something crazy like the Edmunds Fitzgerald museum and then to a Vikings game. I would love to see Will in the metrodome with a bunch of guy wearing blond braids and helmuts with horns on their heads. Lastly, can you do a Secret of the Waylaid road to Riches? Like the secret of the X Files did. I introduced my friend to your stories and she feels to far behind. You could catch people up so they do not have to start at chapter 1 but somewhere around ten so that they can get up to the bi-weekly installment. Or not. I am an avid reader and I love it. Keep on Rockin'!

Amy - 05/02/99 06:33:27
My Email:AmyWooley@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: the banjo player, definitely the banjo player

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You go, Dr. Kay! It is quite an honor to be romanticized in extra classy yet oh-so-taste free e-pulp.

Sarah - 04/27/99 22:28:43
My Email:MissPooki@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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The answers to the contest are 1) Simon's dead wife's name is Lily and 2). Vesper's deep dark secret is that she is really Simon's MIA wife Lily (and Lily is really simon's long lost BROTHER who blames Simon for all her shortcomings and is deticated to de troying him) Lily had extensive plastic surgrey and came back as Vesper.

Shannon - 03/23/99 18:02:45

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Vesper Shillington's real name is Martha Carlson. She was working as a waitress in a coffee shop when she heard an HR rep describe to a colleague exactly what they were looking for in a particular high level position at Waterbury Publishing. Being a smart and desparate cookie (her acting career in NY was going nowhere and she was NOT going back to small-town Idaho), she created a perfect resume, worked out the details of the persona she planned to assume, and installed several phone lines in her studio apartment so when WP called to check references there were different numbers to call and she could use her talent for voices (male and female). She might have even had an former married lover who wanted to stay married and who worked in records at a prestigious university forge the appropriate educational background. She hit resale shops in upscale locations, blowing her entire month's salary on a perfect suit, and acted/charmed her way through the interview and into a job she wasn't in any way qualified for.

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This is the coolest idea ever! I read the whole thing in an afternoon. Y'all should propose to do this for a newspaper or magazine. You'd make a fortune. It's better than the campiest soap opera, and a lot more intellectual! Keep up your fabulous work. PS Will and Laura need to visit Dixie!

Carolyn Morton - 03/01/99 22:21:30
My Email:cmorton@bjesf.org
Your Favorite Character So Far: Christian Redding

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At long last I am up to date on the trials and tribulations of Will and Laura! After a marathon of reading, I have just this moment finished chapter 21--I am enthralled! The plot twists are riveting! The characters, so familiar! (especially my old frie d Ken of Cahn and my girlish crush object, Tom Mizer) I feel the added burden of responsibility, and yet at the same time, delightful excitement, of deciphering the inside jokes as well as the clues in Sooner that Never, not to mention all of the side pl ts and puzzels of Waylaid itself. Three, count them, THREE dramas in one! Truly a mesmerizing and action-packed reading experience. Best wishes to both the authors for continued inspiration, intrigue and glamour befitting Vesper Roberts, I mean Shillington, herself.

Scott Wilson - 02/16/99 03:46:34
My Email:sweetwil@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will (naturally)

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I stumbled upon your site via the Tales of The City site and love it, am hanging on for the next installment. A great effort and loads of fun! I personally would love to see Will and Laura meet an Australian guy travelling the states ala Priscilla and proposing to Will (he does love him I swear, the green card is just convenient) I'll be in New York in April to discuss this development face to face if you like ;-) Anyway, again... great site, faaaabulous!

Ann Keen - 01/27/99 16:59:57
My Email:ann_keen@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will, of course

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The story is wonderful. Breathless. I await the next installment. Perhaps, like the X-Files, you should have a catch-up piece since I just took two hours at work to read your story(I know I'm a bad girl!) Also, the insert about hotdish gave your story muc credibility. Bring Gertie back and perhaps she can whoop some ass!! - More later!

Zelig - 12/23/98 17:07:07
My Email:zelig_7@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: them weird sisters..Like the gals from Endor(bill shakespeare's)

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You left your readers hangin'...and salivating for the next installment so much that it'll instantly digest my muthers' dry turkey (vegans: email me and I'll give you mom's address so you can assault her with anti-carnivore pamphlets) I'd like to wish the "cast and crew" a great holiday season, and hope that their little fingers will be nimble and ready to carry us into the new year with new installments of the Waylaid chronicle..... Best wishes..I raise the ducks butt in salute to you both. (no actual ducks were harmed in the process; the salute was done under supervision of the ASPCA, PETA advocates, and a representative of Libbey Glassworks) ps: (is Will going to walk in after Vesper leaves? ;)

Dangerous Daphne - 12/15/98 16:10:32
My Email:karenrose@aol.com

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How very FABULOUS, Mr. Czjaika!

Kerri Chyka - 12/11/98 14:13:11
My Email:kacmadness@hotmail.com

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Hi Chris! I'm printing out Chapter 1 today. Your page is very cool! I'll do all the survey stuff once I get into it. Kerri

Swami - 12/10/98 19:04:16
My Email:kcarmi@hotmail.com

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Kick-ass photos and links folks! I like the refurbished "About the Authors" page. But the pie-girls make me sad. What a career I've missed out on! Perhaps others would like to join me in bringing back the pie-girl business?

Victor Holbert - 12/02/98 16:21:37
My Email:drvph@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Why, Will, of course

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My dear friends, So good to hear of you again, and I am thoroughly enjoying your treatise! Please keep up the captivating work!

Shannon - 11/30/98 18:32:37
My Email:sknight@atg.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Faye, Holly and Christine

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Reading about the Weird Sisters made me REALLY homesick for Chicago!

Kristen - 11/25/98 15:18:17
My URL:http://www.cl.ais.net/krispe
My Email:kristen@entegrion.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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Um, yeah, whatever, I know the girls with glasses really have beards. Freaks.

Swami - 11/21/98 16:41:34
My Email:kcarmi@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Why choose?

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I am delighted with the latest novel-within-novel installment of "Sooner Than Never." Authentic gothic trashiness AND a sound moral lesson. And if we don't learn respect for furniture indeed, where will we all be? I want a screenplay made up from this, along the lines of "Dead Again" or "The French Lieutenant's Woman," switching back and forth between "Sooner Than Never" and "Waylaid" proper. Who wants to start suggesting casting choices for the characters?

zelig - 11/12/98 15:38:26
My Email:zelig_7@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: weird sister infatuation..

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I look forward to the weekly edition.. and this time so greatly charmed to meet the weird sisters finally introduced in eternal print...Kitten/aka former underground-dweller, "the fatass roomie"(my opinion not shared on that observation) and the elusive b ond doctress'.... (sigh) my cup of green tea grows cool while I read on... the days long turned cool since the inception of these curious chapters....Methinks I will need chocolate in order to buffer the emotional longing for the next edition...but the th basic food group will suffice.... "zelig"

Liz Rynear - 11/05/98 05:22:48
My Email:interkom@sprynet.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: every bloomin' one!

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Hey! Who is Mike modeled after? Maybe they should stop at one of the few remaining Stuckeys (outside of Gallup, New Mexico I think)- they could take a pause and eat pecan logs while sitting on bright orange resin benches.

Author's Note: Alas! Mike is but a dream, and drawn from nowhere but the imagination.

Fran Egler - 10/31/98 19:18:41
My Email:francescae@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Fern, but she is way underutilized!

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You forgot to mention that all of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Everybody sing now: "Oh I did not stop fordeath/ But death he stopped for me..." Sorry to ruin a major literary figure for ya...

Elizabeth Lucas - 10/27/98 06:50:56
My Email:EALucas@aol.com

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I've been having vivid dreams in neon purple and red about the mines of Centralia. Wow, the idea of that is an incredible image/metaphor. However there were lions in my dream.

Kathleen Carmichael - 10/24/98 20:18:27
My Email:kcarmi@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Still love that nutbar, Chad!

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I am so horrified. "[H]er father's rough love?" It is dreadfully like that wretched Horace Walpole's incestuous novels/plays. He built a "medieval" castle he called Strawberry Hill (about as medieval as Medieval Times, thank you)and had the bad taste t live in it. Miss Kay, Madam Shai-kah, you should both know better.

Liz Rynear - 10/24/98 01:32:57
My Email:interkom@sprynet.com

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Kay! I am still loving the chapters, but when I jump to a related page (ie: the song list) there is no link to return to the previous page. We're using Netscape... am I a total dummy???

Special Note from the authors: all links within the chapters open up a new browser window. To return to the chapter, simply close the new window!

Kristen Freilich - 10/16/98 00:54:32
My URL:http://www.cl.ais.net/krispe
My Email:krispe@ais.net
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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Chapter 6 rocks the boat!!! Watch out, Oprah, here they come! Also, Will clearly has really good taste in music, visit www.cl.ais.net/krispe to hear a clip of Diamonds are Forever with Real Audio.

Liz Rynear - 10/10/98 20:27:28
My Email:interkom@sprynet.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Laura and Vesper

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Hey Kay, I'm seeing a lot of familiar sayings, etc... an Olds Omega!!!!! The banana boat! So, when does a thinly-veiled Liz character show up? In a seedy goth club, or maybe a kindergarten? I read the whole 5 chapters and loved it. I can't wait for more!!!!!
Nicole Hudson - 10/01/98 14:17:31
My URL:http://www.n-spiration.com
My Email:nicole@n-spiration.com

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You so DID NOT use 88's as a setting. You just killed me. Dead. First thing in the morning...

Kevin Kornoelje - 09/22/98 21:10:48
My Email:kevkorn@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: only two so far...both are great.

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Great idea, Kay! Kathleen told me to look this up. You probably don't remember me, but I used to work at CTD. Let me know as the installments continue!

Mark "Call Me Inigo" DeLong - 09/22/98 18:42:17
My Email:markd@jayi.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: is it ... Laura?

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nice thus far and i peer into the browser to see to see ... how about a rural romp a place with guinea hens buckwhee-ee-eeting in treetops at sunset a place with a particularly horny rooster surely with a book like Sooner Than Never elemental greed spills from cities' gates to slime the American pastoral or are you waiting for the Ultimate Climax before you bring this all to the Real America? i'm available for consultancy and i'm really really cheap! m

Big Swami - 09/18/98 18:36:27
Your Favorite Character So Far: Chad

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Could the chapters have exciting titles so that we could easily turn back to clues and plot points as they accumulate? And could you get an eccentric millionaire to do this so I would have an excuse for an extended road trip?

Ray LaValley - 09/17/98 22:04:44
My Email:rlavalley@aig.vialink.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: ME (so far....purely for how involved I'm getting!)

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Take me somewhere that keeps me moist with anticipation--to the very EDGE of my seat..........saaaaaaay, Rosemead, CA.

Shannon Knight - 09/17/98 21:22:17
My Email:sknight@atg.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Laura

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I'm not sure who Laura is yet (maybe a conglomeration of several people?) but I like her blend of spunkiness and neuroticism.

Kristen F. - 09/17/98 12:53:31
My URL:http://geocities.datacellar.net/Broadway/Stage/5030
My Email:krispe22@hotmail.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Will

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Will reminds me of someone, hmmm could it be my Cza-chotic friend?? Wow, just to up and quit your job...if only I was waylaid on the road to r., then I'd quit my f-----g job too! And the story goes on.

Fran Egler - 09/11/98 17:01:14
My Email:francescae@aol.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: Fern, of course

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Well, it will be interesting to see where this goes.

Alice Carrubba - 09/10/98 20:30:10
Your Favorite Character So Far: Simon Waterbury

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This is going to a fun adventure!!! What a terrific idea!!!

Nicole Hudson - 09/10/98 16:04:54
My URL:http://www.n-spiration.com
My Email:nicole@n-spiration.com
Your Favorite Character So Far: I don't think my favorite has appeared yet...

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I AM SO AFRAID. SO VERY AFRAID. _____________________(my heart beat)

jeff czajka - 09/10/98 12:04:18
My Email:jc7ta4@rochester.infi.net
Your Favorite Character So Far: thaddeus (ha!)

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Just so you know, I was getting a "java script error, cuid not defined" message when I got to your site and opened chapter 1. I was able to read them, but this may scare people. (Windows 95 and Netscape 3.0 were my tools). Will, gee I wonder who Will is in real life? PLEASE don't have the box buried in anyplace that Laura Ingalls ever lived, your target audience will find that way too predictable.

MrNitly - 09/10/98 04:14:21
Your Favorite Character So Far: Bryant...the slut

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Austen...Tolstoy....Hemingway...P and C. I am wet with anticipation. I just hope we are soon to be charmed by the appearance of a fabulously funny but steadfastly loyal lyricist/go-go boy named...Tim perhaps. Congrats.