Agents love to be in the acknowledgement section of a book, that's no secret. Me too, of course.
But today I'm reading along in a client's novel and find a character named Janet described thus:
"I could tell she was the sort of coldhearted bitchwould never lose a moment's sleep over putting a bullet in my head".
ya baby!
They say that like it's a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteWow. Are we related?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't be you; that character had a heart.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness that wasn't on the dedication page... or was it?
ReplyDeleteno it wasn't but I'll suggest it before the final edit. It's actually in a manuscript just getting ready to be turned in.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that Charles Dickens had me in mind when he wrote in Hard Times, chapter 13: "Oh, Rachael! Rachael!"
ReplyDeleteWell ... maybe not. But then, probably.
wow, you're really well preserved for someone more than 150 years old.
ReplyDeleteGoat balm maybe?
goat's milk .... lots and lots of goat's milk!
ReplyDeleteWe pixies live a long time.
Ten points if you can figure it out. Bill E. Goat can sing it:
ReplyDeleteOes gafr eto, oes heb ei godro?
Ar y creigiau geirwon
Mae'r hen afr yn crwydro.
Gafr wen, wen, wen,
Ie fin wen, fin wen, fin wen,
Foel gynffon wen, foel gynffon wen,
Ystlys wen a chynffon,
Wen, wen, wen.
All pixies can count goats!
It's something Welsh about a goat with a lot of blue stuff on it. I couldn't get the lyrics to come up in English.
ReplyDeleteGoogle is my friend.
Where do I put the ten points? On my butt?
if you wish ... but I don't see anything about being blue in those words. ... however the last verse of Counting the Goats (Cyfri'r Geifr) is a verse about a blue tinted goat. Bill E. Goat's comment on that is that the blue goat didn't have the sence God gave a rock and forgot to come in out of the cold.
ReplyDeleteSo you get 5 points and a free head-butt from Bill E. Goat for finding something and at least another 5 points for being bored enough to look!
words in English and Welsh and a midi file are here:
http://ingeb.org/songs/whereist.htm
Gee, thanks.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear … I think my teasing hurt your feelings. I wouldn't willingly hurt you for the world. I'm glad you played my game. I'm not belittling you, at least not on purpose. I'm sorry.
ReplyDeleteSo, you get an additionaly 15 points for playing with an idiot pixie.
Yay! I'll just skip the head-butt.
ReplyDeleteI would love having a character like that named for me.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm...who can I hit up to name a coldhearted bitch after me???
I'm on the acknowledgments page of a book -- Tremolo: Cry of the Loon -- by Aaron Paul Lazar, and it is a special thrill.
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