Category: Silly Stuff

Just like I like a man with spots.

Stella is a girl we all know but rarely meet in fiction – seventeen, smart, attractive and deeply alienated.

Where is this fiction the blurb writer is talking about, and where can I find some of it? Or is it the “smart” part that makes Stella different from your usual attractive, deeply alienated seventeen-year-old?

Author: Yay! I’ve signed with a real honest-to-goodness publisher! No self-publication for me!

Editor: Here’s the cover we’re giving your book.

Author: Oh-h-h. Um.

Designer: I just got a new clipart collection I wanted to try out! Isn’t the parrot-tombstone symmetry dandy?

Author madly investigates self-publication options.

I guess the fact that it’s still in shrink wrap is comment enough.

The moment Johnny realized that he was mistaken about English being easy class was when the professor assigned Anna Karenina.

…is your birthday suit, apparently.

Richard Blade is captured by the ultimate force: his brain refuses to send him home.

It’s not so much the cover, which is typical of the era, but the content of the book itself:

• Each book a complete story based on actual scripts
• Look for the next book in the Days of Our Lives continuing series

“My only crime was that I trusted my family,” Mickey explained to the jury. “Realizing that the people I loved betrayed me, I bought a gun. I wanted to kill everyone who had lied to me.” And I still could! he added silently.