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Friday, September 11, 2009
Dear author-friends, if you ever have the urge to title your science-fiction novel BOOM! POTATO POTATO! and the Princess of Papyrion , that's fine. But no one's going to publish it. Just so you know. Have a nice weekend.
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You're just a potato/princess/explosion hater. Doesn't mean no one else wants it.
Okay, let's be serious for a minute...did someone actually use that title? That's a disgrace to SF writers everywhere. I'm appalled. And you'd be able to see that if I could just stop laughing...
There has to be *some* place for that kind of greatness.
You think that's bad? Some idiot named a book, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society."
Dear Bingol, don't tell "Steve," but we totally would have form-rejected that query, too. Ahem.
I for one would rush out and buy a copy of "BOOM! POTATO POTATO! and the Princess of Papyrion" and I don't even read science fiction.
Maybe you shouldn't quit your day job...err...oh yeah...
Does that mean my DOOM! ASPARAGUS ASPARAGUS! and the Marquis of Muffins is a no-go? I had such high hopes.
Probably better than some of my titles but then I only write to give you people a laugh for the day.
Well, at least it sounds funny ... Guess I'd have a look at the book in the shop.
I really wish I had your job.
Dear Ink, no, you can totally submit that. We really only objected to the potato.
Dude, how often does this come up?
A lot, you say?
That's concerning.
But I'm strangely drawn to that book, in a don't-look-it's-a-car-wreck-but-now-I-need-to-take-at-least-one-little-peek kind of way.
Oh lordy, I am doomed. I love: BOOM! POTATO POTATO!
Not so much the Princess part.
Remember, sheep potatos only have eyes for ewe.
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