If my choice was too elementary, we could go with this on my next pick ...
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21 comments:
Sorry, I've already read that.
(just kidding)
I think it's unbearably funny that Erin felt compelled to point that she was just kidding.
Well, I thought if I didn't, Christy would say, "You have?! Me too!! Didn't you love it when Raphael and Destiny finally gave in to their passions?!"
(just kidding)
Well, I was going to follow up with a joke that I thought I had dated that guy on the cover, but it paled in comparison to Erin's superior joke.
Not to stray too far from literary themes, but, cl, who was the stud you dated with the Harlequin name? Dirk? Drake? Dash? And wasn't he obsessed with his hair?
Ah, yes. His name was Dak. Very nice guy, often late, left me waiting in his living room for a half-hour once while he worked on his hair.
A book by someone named Small. A pen name for a writer whose real name is "Little"?
Oh, good eye, Zabolski.
Speaking of too juvenile, I got the feeling that a lot of the double meanings in this book would go right over the heads of 8- or 9-year-olds who might be reading it.
P.S. My favorite pun in the book was the wagon with no engine that only moved if you were very quiet because "it goes without saying."
Wait!
I can't believe I picked that cover! I chose it for its image size and the barechestiness.
However, if I were a romance novelist:
1. "Beatrice" certainly would not be my pen name. I think I'd use my porn name (pet name+ street address), which would be Scoshi Caenen.
2. I amazoned Beatrice Small, and if I'd written that many novels in the past few years while working my present gig, I could, you know, afford to eat at the Wa with Kim and George.
Oh my God! My porn name would be Mabel Pennsylvania, or Rupert Pennsylvania, depending on my mood. That is awesome!
Christy, I'll treat you to Wa, hon, just for that porn info.
Erin, I love the "goes without saying" pun. That is a beautiful thing to have thought up.
Ooops. Lots of corrections for that post:
I see her name is "Bertrice," not "Beatrice."
Two, I should have clarified that I've heard it's the pet name and street name from your childhood. Although I might seem more respectable as "Kayla Eddingham."
(As an author, that is, not a porn star.)
Oh, in that case, I would be Brandy Chilton. Still very good, but not as rockin' as Mabel Pennsylvania.
From my childhood, it would be Sunny State, or Max Oak, or Casey Fifth, or Duke Old Main.
Now it would be Charlie Fourth or Maggie Fourth. Or, since we're on the corner, I guess it could be Charlie Walnut. Or should that be Charlie Walnuts?
Actually kc, if you think about it, Pennsylvania is already a Penn. name.
I guess my porn name would be Tony Sherwood, but I always told people I'd go with my Asian roots and be called Kwai Tae Dong.
Sherwood is a great porn name for a guy!
I'd be Ginger Meadowlark or Little Bit Meadowlark.
Sherwood rocks!
Kwai Tae Dong. Is that Vietnamese for Quite a Dong?
Ginger Meadowlark is awesome. Spicy and flighty.
Ginger Meadowlark is fabulous. Although I think a name like Mabel Pennsylvania could get cast sight unseen.
Maybe I should just use the full street name: Sherwood Drive.
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