Continuation from Monday Morning Mogul, so it doesn't take as long to refresh your screen.Keep the guesses rolling in!
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Monday, September 8, 2008
The Evil Continues...
Continuation from Monday Morning Mogul, so it doesn't take as long to refresh your screen.
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EE, when you're back, I hope you give us a clue...
:-)
I knew the first one would fill up quickly!
Chumplet, I never saw your painting! Is it on your blog anywhere?
Physician - but only if it's well-trained.
Maybe he calls it Bark.
Hi Oh Evil Overlord. Just wanted to pop in and smell what's on the fire. Be back after you're done to a crisp. Much love to you on your roasting day.
Every beagle is a treasure to its owner. How about a name like Bestseller or Retirement?
This one keeps me guessin'.. what would the master of evil name his dog? LOL..Great answers so far, can't read them and drink coffee..makes the keyboard sticky;)
barkzilla?
Which brings to mind...What kind of dog does EE have?
"The Omen"-esque Rottweiler?
The sleeker but still menacing Doberman?
Something, um, BIG like a Mastiff?
Or does he have some pert, chipper little thing more suited to the not-so-evil family?
Say, a toy poodle that prounces around with pieces of rejected manuscript for fun?
Oooh, or a pug? A jowly, attention-hoarding, heavily shedding pug? I love pugs.
in precie-land, pounces and prances = prouces
;)
Guess 4: Phart (Uranus)
Guess 5: Clyyyyyyyyyde
I'm back
I think he named his dog Killer Yapp in homage.
Goodness!
LOL!!!
Welcome back, and Welcome!!!!!
Never thought anyone would get it.
So Killer Yapp was it, huh?
Long as you're here, I need an agent for my romance novel. Email me.
OMG! A Miss Snark sighting!
We like to get you, EE.
:-)
Are there any tidbits about your puppy's name you can give us?
EE, You don't step on your puppy with stilettos, do you?
yeah! Now you have to tell us..the suspense is getting to me, my hairs turning gray or is that grey. Oh who cares! :)
Whats the evil beasties name
*sniff* How romantic. Miss Snark always shows up for you, EE.
The dogs sleeps all the time. At least I assume they're sleeping. How do you tell if they're not dead?
I was going to guess Stiletto but Killer Yapp is of course the much more obvious name!
Oh right, the snoring.
Are they snoring? If so, they're not dead.
You have zombie dogs?
Ha! I would say great minds, but obviously yours is greater.
Sylv! Did you see the movie?
I still think the little girl pupppy is Stella. Is the girl the beagle?
EE doing a romance novel..how funny..starts dating a forlorn rejected novelest who is really a vampire or something, oh can we read some of it? haha
Pets. All they do is shed and snore and pee and puke and eat and sleep and demand attention. How did humans get conned into this?
Wow, a Miss Snark sighting. I'm impressed, EE.
who domesticated who? We were lured into their evil trap! Pets have us in their spell, thats what I figure
If only your puppy could write a story...
Sounds like husband traits to me.
It's their big brown eyes, EE. That's what gets us.
Humans are easy to train.
Odd, your pets sound just like my children.
Fortunately, they're all cute.
Hey freddie-
I like your idea of Clyyyyde for the bot.
Does JB puke a lot, Robin?
EE, you obviously have the wrong pets if that's all yours do.
I just watched the Stella Youtube.
Love that movie.
Thank you, Robin!
My dogs had blue eyes, Freddie, so it can't be the eyes.
Well, maybe not the puking, K - but the peeing and snoring and the taking him for a walk parts- oh yeah.
Really wish we could have a dog.
So, How was this roast or whatever hyped? Is it just a day-long chat or is there an event?
As long as their big, Julie. Us humans are suckers for dogs with big eyes. Was/is yours a husky?
I want to pick your brain, EE.
I loved the movie - the ending had me looking over my shoulder the rest of the day!
It worries me that someone so evil can do such a perfect psycho voice.
Ah--well, that description was my kids--especially my little boy--to a tee.
Fortunately my kids are really, really beautiful. And funny. Otherwise the puke would about do me in.
And EE, we all know you're crazy about those dogs.
EE, YOU are the event.
Dearest Evil,
I don't want to take you away from abusing writers! That's how you're able to feed your puppy.
We're just wanting to get to know you is all....
Aussies. I bred and showed Aussies for several years. Of course some had brown eyes too and some were brown and blue.
Ahhhh! Kiersten said it right!!
Yes!
This is just a fun-filled week hanging out with the cream of the crop in the publishing industry. And you're firsties because you're the creamiest.
EE, getting serious for a moment, what genres do you think are not selling well now? Which ones are still going strong?
You know me. I'm just like you. It's two in the morning, and I don't know nobody.
So, EE, do you think it's possible for a writer to get worse as s/he writes instead of better?
And he's the Evilest!
Just spent the last 20 minutes refreshing the previous comment trail wondering if a hurricane had hit the US.
How stupid am I?
The Sting reference!
Is it 2am where you are?
Where are you?
I hear YA and paranormal romance and urban fantasy sell well. But will that be true by the time you finish writing one?
Slacker dogs.
Moderately, Whirl. But excusably, as well.
And EE, none of that nonsense. You know you're better than us.
Geez, that's a frightening thought, writers getting worse with practice.
*waves to Whirlochre!*
Have a seat over here, sweetie.
:-)
When I was a YA, all romance was paranormal.
I'm in an English village which consists of a couple of Tudor cottages and a lot of 2-up-2-down houses surrounding a central area called the Green. There is a tiny co-op shop, a library which opens 3 hours a day, a hardware store run by a man named Brian who told me his life story when I went to buy a fuse, a greengrocer, two coffee shops and four hair dressers.
It seems like all the women have blonde hair and drive SUVs full of screaming children.
It's raining.
Can I go home yet?
So, is E Jr jealous of the puppies?
By the way, my vote for the boy puppy (aside from loving Fredddie's idea of Clyde)....
is
Chauncey, or, if I can have two boy votes, Gerard.
Let's hope YA keeps up.
Chris, I think that 2 a.m. line was a line Robert Redford said in The Sting. : )
(Catching up...)
Five guesses each?
OK, I think I get how this works.
I'll maximise my odds and go with another 4 Jims.
Sylvia, Why you hangin out at the hardware store...
Thanx Freddie!
I just got an Nigerian scam email, only it was from Sweden. Amazing.
What about the girl doggie, Whirl?
How many millions have you accumulated from Nigeria anyway?
So...when you're not skewering aspiring authors or collecting demotivational posters, what do you like to do for fun? Are you the outdoorsy type? Hiking, boating, fishing?
EE, did you see recently that one of the heads of government in Nigeria said that sure, the people who send those out should be punished, but the people who fall for them should also be put in jail?
I was entertained.
Jimima
EE, I've never been one to follow trends. I still like mutton-leg shirts and those haven't been in style for 30 years.
I'll continue to write my fantasies and venture off to the historical. I was just wondering if ya was still going strong.
Outdoors? AN occasional 9 holes of golf is about it.
I instaled a great anti-spam filter to keep those boys at bay, but it was so good it blocked pretty much everything and I missed out on a few good social events.
Ah, Killeryapp is here.
Where do you get your hair done? Tilley wants to know.
Plus if someone ever does die and leave you 12.5 million, you won't know about it.
Chris: I was hoping to buy a stud finder but apparently it's not quite what I thought it was. *sigh*
Julie: Don't you think YA is in desperate need of declassification? Personally, I'd love to see the books back in normal genres with a little "YA" label rather than relegated to a shelf that implies that real grown ups shouldn't read it.
EE: Since we can't guess the name of your dog, can you give us a new question?
That's why I've reverted to being a sucker.
Sylvia, *you* are the stud finder.
Yes, a new question.
Sylvia, with your blondes driving SUVs filled with screaming kids description, I'd have sworn you were in Utah.
How's the vacation other than that?
Didn't they used to advertise something like that on the telly a few years ago, Sylvia? That stud-putter-inner thing that (and I quote) "turns a pair of £2 jeans into a pair of £20 jeans."
Bedazzlers, Whirl. And they're still around.
No, no, no. That's Dallas, Texas.
Dallas, Texas was like the original Stepford Wives for me. But I still want to see the rest of Texas.
Chris: I was hoping to buy a stud finder but apparently it's not quite what I thought it was. *sigh*
My middle son turned my stud finder on and ran it over his chest. When it started beeping he said, "Ah, it works."
I don't know about the declassification. I think parents should be able to trust books in a certain area will be relatively safe for their kids. Just me being a mom, I guess. Why would it bother adults to buy a book from any section?
What genre should we expose everyone to in a future book chat?
What's the betting they cost £18.
So, EE, do you want to throw out a question you want to be asked or shall we just ask what's on our minds?
Hmm. Y'all have done romance, fantasy (or was it sf?), nonfiction . . . that's all I can remember. Oh yeah, crime. Right?
Ask, and I shall answer. Not necessarily truthfully.
fantasy, science fiction, YA romance, nonfiction, paranormal mystery,
I still have one dog name left. Let me think.
I really thought it would be Phideaux, elegant, aristocratic and easy to pronounce.
we have mystery and litfic coming soon.
Post-vampire horror? Wild west?
EE, have you thought about doing younger? You did YA with Twilight, but there's a lot of good stuff out there skewed a little younger. And it's easy reading, too.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is immensely clever, as is Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth.
Sorry for the delay...two-year-old just threw four-year-old's bowl of cereal and milk across the carpet.
Sometimes I hate my life.
We need a romance, which should be paranormal, regency, or historical.
Okay. Are you omniscient? Sometimes it seems like you are.
Master of Evilness, What turned you into the Evil Editor, was it something someone said? Was it in your DNA or did you just get a hankering...
Where did you learn to do the art for the blog?
It's not your life, it's the kids.
EE: This is my answer.
Do I win?
Do you men enjoy reading romance?
I taught myself to alter other people's art with Paint, which was already on my computer.
I skim ahead to the good parts.
ok then... goosnargh
I taught myself to alter other people's art with Paint, which was already on my computer.
Hmmm, so there is hope for me.
Is EE an original or something you altered.
What are the good parts?
I love the way all these pooch names keep meandering in for a sniff round. Just like real dogs.
Kiersten: it's an affluent area not far out of London - very pretty but not a "real" village at all. A bit bizarre.
Chris: I came to the conclusion that there are no studs to be found at this particular hardware store. ;)
WO: With that kind of mark-up, it must have been in Essex?
Julie: the problem is the adult have to check two places. If I want a romance, I look in Romance, I don't check the YA shelves.
But I do understand what you mean - that's why I think we'd need labelling. I know my son likes historical and fantasy. Rather than pull those out of the YA shelves, I'd like to go to those shelves and see which ones are marked as YA
I'm running around visiting people and getting stuff done. It's not bad but not really "holiday". Strasbourg tomorrow though, can't wait.
I think my hosts are starting to wonder why it is taking me so long to "quickly check my mail"
Alas, the kids are my life, EE.
And I never hate them.
They just drive me crazy sometimes. But cute! Did I mention they're cute?
I added the laser eyes and the manuscript.
Ok, last dog name guess.
Mephostophiles
Could I second Kiersten's suggestion?
Could we do a middle-grade book? I have many recommendations which I think adults will also enjoy...
(Lemony Snicket would be YA, I think...)
I'm surprised Miss Snark did not guess the correct answer. The pooch is named Snarky. (Or not.)
Bill H.
I added the laser eyes and the manuscript.
Hmmm. I'm disappointed. I really thought you might look like EE.
I guess I will have to dream about someone else tonight.
We can do middle grade, but as always, no one may suggest books they've already read.
I added the laser eyes and the manuscript.
Oh. That's what made me think you were omniscient.
Actually, I only asked because I wanted to show off that I can spell "omniscient."
But cute! Did I mention they're cute?
I had lunch with daughter-in-law and baby Samantha yesterday. Much fun. She is a little doll and her hair is getting so long.
I'm all for middle-grade. I could use something that isn't taxing on my little brain-o.
Should I choose middle grade for girls? Boys? Both? Funny or serious?
When is the next book chat?
If I were omnishent, I'd know how to spell it too.
Funny. I don't feel like something serious or depressing and I might actually try to join in.
Late Sept. It's How I Got Published, the author having won the chat spot in the Juvenile Diabetes auction. Exact date not set. I have a copy. Each piece is short, perfect for reading during commercials while watching TV.
Can you pick something that either won the Newbery or honorary mention?
But I'll be happy with whatever you pick in the genre!!!!!!!!!
I have the book. I got it accidentally from Writer's Digest and decided to keep it. Just haven't read it yet.
I vote for funny. I always vote for funny.
Yes, award nominations are good. It assures we'll either have a good book or be able to mock an award committee.
Lawsy, I haven't watched tv since the Olympics.
Can you pick something that either won the Newbery or honorary mention?
Oooh, good idea, Chris.
Yes, award nominations are good. It assures we'll either have a good book or be able to mock an award committee.
Sweet
Okay, I gotta run. Tons of reading to do and I need to work on a composition that might be due tomorrow. Happy roasting, EE!
attila...
Funny, definitely. And maybe I've never read The Phantom Tollbooth...
Attila for the dog's name?
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