I was going through my paper mail this morning, and I found a letter from the school district where I used to do time as a kid. Apparently the high school English department head found out that I've written a couple of novels, and wants to make my first one required summer reading.
I'm horrified by this. I don't want a captive audience, and I don't want people to grow up despising my work because it was shoved down their throats at school. Save that shit for when I'm dead and buried, please.
@starbreaker whatever works for you, pal....I can see validity in all the comments, but obvs, totally up to you....
@starbreaker @MissSnarkerson I was secretly hoping for some Poppy Z. Brite level stuff.
@stuarttempleton @MissSnarkerson That passage was from chapter 2. I've got angry wizard sex in chapter 22.
@starbreaker @MissSnarkerson @stuarttempleton Entirely too late for #angrywizardsex. All the best (and by best I mean mine) literary theories prove that squares have already become inured to the freak by chapter 13, so the people who most need angry wizard sex won't be in a receptive head space by then.
@DaveHiggins @stuarttempleton @MissSnarkerson Yeah, but it wasn't relevant to plot or characterization until chapter 22, so there. :)
@starbreaker @stuarttempleton @DaveHiggins I would posit it's never too late for angry wizard sex............
@starbreaker *cackle* that's so great....
@MissSnarkerson Elisabeth Bathory's isn't just drawn that way.
@starbreaker Jessica Rabbit reference ftw!
@feld @MissSnarkerson Let's not forget that BDSM is OK as long as it reinforces traditional gender roles, but we can't have men submitting to women.
@MissSnarkerson It's OK. I just got off the phone with the head of the English department, and the superintendent had shot down her proposal after reading a bit and seeing this line:
"The slight smile on her lips and the mischief sparkling in her eyes suggested to Saul that Elisabeth Bathory wasn't the sort of woman a man brought home to meet his mother. She was the sort of woman a man begged for a collar."