Paperback Writer, Paperback, Wriiiiiittteeerrr….
Yes, yes, I am SOON to be a paperback writer. If this is a bad thing, please do not tell me. I’m sure some of you will write me anyway. And maybe send me incoherent messages that I cannot interpret, like the one I got a bit ago, but that’s okay, because I am a PAPERBACK WRIIIIIITER. I assume paperback writers consume massive amounts of valium. I need to get me some of that, just to cope with my very strange emails. Or maybe mass amounts of hallucinogens.
But anyway, I just got the cover of the mass market edition of WIVES AND SISTERS, and I love it. It’s very “gothicky,” as my agent said, and it just really gives the FEELING of suspense.
Go, WIVES AND SISTERS! You rock! You’re totally, like, the best!
Lord have mercy, I’ve become one of those teenagers I’m with all day. Except for the wrinkles and all this fat that has attached itself to me, in strange and unfamiliar places. Or at least places I choose to be unfamiliar with these days.
Becoming a teenager–sorta–has NOT however, helped me to interpret some of the strange emails and comments I get. Like this one, from Quetzal. I’m trying to go easy on the guy/gal, since I suspect that English is his/her second, third, or possibly FOURTH language:
Yes, we do, because the world and its wickedness has gone beyond
compare.We do need the Sealed Portion, why no, who are we to question God??
An we also need the Keys of Enoch, which was given by Enoch gimself
in 1973.Are you as blind and deaph not to see the sign of the Times?
Im sure you are one of them Mormoms (like myself) who support your
leader at the expense of Giving Glory and prasie to God, doing the
Will of his Gospel.
I think this person was commenting on the blog where I wrote that the world did not even NEED the right-there-in-your-face portions of the Book of Mormon, let ALONE the “mythical” and unseen (of course!) sealed portions, but the message still doesn’t make much sense. I’m not questioning God. Joseph Smith, Jr., on the other hand, gets a big fat, BURNING-BRAND-OF-QUESTION-MARK-ON-THE-HEAD kind of question.
And as for the writer’s question, am I BLIND and DEAPH? No, no, I had that correction surgery, and can see quite well these days, thank you. As for deaf, I only practice the kind of selective deafness my children have taught me. “Mom, can I have some money?” I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you….
And who is Enoch Gimself? What nationality is that name? I’m not familiar with it. And this whole Mormom thingie is freaking me out. Support my LEADER? Is that like “take me to your leader?” Next thing I know those aliens from Kolob are going to be descending on Utah.
I am NOT a Mormom!! I am a less mom. Less money, more chores. That’s my philosophy.
But you ramble on, Quetzal. It’s all good. Cuz, I’m a PAPERBACK WRIIIIITTTERRRRR….. Life is good.
And BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, my next book that will mostly needle and irritate the Mormons, is due out in January of 2007 from St. Martin’s Press.
Just out of curiosity, is Mormom shorthand for Mormon Mom? Because I’m neither, really, Quetzal.
