Writing Group folks, you’ll enjoy this:
Right now, the only thing that is blocking Scott from total annihilation by my Laser-Beam-Vision of Total Seething Envy is the fact that he’s a pretty keen guy, TLoLL is a phenominal book, and the success is very much deserved.
(Hurriedly crosses out the thinly-veiled caricature of GMS that was previously horribly murdered in the current manuscript…)
Ah, come on! You come up with some inventive murder methods! I wanna be buggered to death by Marmots…..or maybe sewn into a bag with 106 rabid ducks and thrown into a barrel of wasabi peas…
Come on….hook a brutha up!
Marmots… marmots, now… yesssssss, that has promise…
Okay, you win. Gangster films will forever have “the horse’s head scene.” Fantasy fiction will some day have “the marmot buggery scene…”
I’m afraid the furries own that one.
Well, I don’t know you at all, Scott, but congrats. That’s immensely cool. I’ve got your book on my Amazon wishlist, so as soon as it’s out in the States I’ll pick up a copy.
Thank you! Dang… a StarCraft novel… now there’s something I’d gleefully kidnap and murder someone for a chance to do… er, I mean, congrats!
Thanks! Hey, when it comes out I’ll happily trade copies with you, if you’re interested.
And, sadly, kidnap and murder don’t always win contracts anymore. :)