I'm cracking up at the notion of every first name only being useable by one author.
Sorry, Mr. King, Mr. Crane beat you to it.
She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.
Spike ,'The Killer In Me'
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Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2010 12:04:25 pm PDT #4011 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ginger - Sep 24, 2010 12:05:23 pm PDT #4012 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Barb, you have sanity on your side. You must prevail.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
(gasps for breath)
ha, ha, ha....
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2010 12:06:33 pm PDT #4013 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ita, did your sister go to a SHCJ school?
I don't think so. She went to St. Mary's Convent in South Hampstead. Poor thing. Man, she hated.
Daisy Jane - Sep 24, 2010 12:06:48 pm PDT #4014 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm so confused. She can't have exclusivity on one name. I mean a quick google tells me she'd have to go after at least 3 other people.
Barb - Sep 24, 2010 12:07:03 pm PDT #4015 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
(gasps for breath)
ha, ha, ha....
I think Spidra broke Ginger.
And hell, I'm not any more sane than your average creative type. I just happen to have a somewhat firmer grasp on reality.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 12:11:53 pm PDT #4016 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Barb, is she obsessively blaming you for her own career not being as successful as she'd like? Or does she see this issue as a potential problem for her?
(One of my hobbies is trying to understand how crazy people think.)
Daisy Jane - Sep 24, 2010 12:20:16 pm PDT #4017 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I personally think she maybe thought it was uniquer than it is.
Burrell - Sep 24, 2010 12:21:26 pm PDT #4018 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My current job is the Anteaters! No clue what the colors are.
Blue and gold. That's where I went for grad school.
And now I totally want to go to the Gorey House Museum. oooh
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2010 12:21:29 pm PDT #4019 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I suspect she is just angry in general, dislikes Barb and hopes to use her as punching bag. Which will prove a mistake.
Barb - Sep 24, 2010 12:21:32 pm PDT #4020 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I think the first, tommy-- the whole thing started when I finaled in the RITA contest over three years ago. She mistakenly received congratulations for finaling and that's when her complaints began, made easier by the fact that we shared the same agent and happened to be published by subsidiaries of the same publisher. She was incensed that our agent and the publisher had "allowed" me used of the name. Mind you, I'd already been published for nearly a year and it had been public knowledge for longer than that, what name I was going to be using.
It only got worse after I won the award, but then, my career slowed down a bit with the mess with the house that first bought STARS and then canceled the contract, so it's going to have been just over three years since I've been published. In the meantime, she's on book twenty-something and in a thickening of the plot, I discovered she has a release coming out the same month as STARS, the second book in a series where the first book was kind of dinged by Publisher's Weekly:
The premise is intriguing, but [INSERT NAME] never fully develops it, and too many inconsistencies distract the reader from both romance and science.
So she's multi-published and has a middling career.
Then again, so do I. Thing is, I see it as impetus to continue getting better. I want to earn my accolades, not feel as if I'm entitled to them for whatever bent reason I can come up with.