tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post8900934041128940339..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Write Stupid BookAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-73241746395878724892014-09-24T15:15:06.858-04:002014-09-24T15:15:06.858-04:00I will join the ranks of those salivating to read ...I will join the ranks of those salivating to read Seven Kisses, too. This sounds way up my personal alley. (Um, not intended to be as dirty as it sounded, but too good to change now that I've written it). Annabeth Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455191827664110878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-14016381716596735072014-09-24T15:13:18.003-04:002014-09-24T15:13:18.003-04:00Jeremy, I'm happy to see that book is checked ...Jeremy, I'm happy to see that book is checked out! I love that one, and it's funny how many of us are in there! :)<br /><br />Also, Sacchi, I recently bought Girl Crazy from our local sex shop. Annabeth Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455191827664110878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-21157532245088953762014-09-19T18:15:34.571-04:002014-09-19T18:15:34.571-04:00Umm... dirty. Or if it's water I guess... clea...Umm... dirty. Or if it's water I guess... clean.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-59984294544710037712014-09-19T18:13:31.371-04:002014-09-19T18:13:31.371-04:00In university, I wrote a paper about how The Simps...In university, I wrote a paper about how The Simpsons (oh god I sound young) is such a successful piece of humour because the writing is so multivalenced. There's slapstick happening alongside some super-sophisticated literary reference. Why can't we achieve this with our fiction? Le sigh.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-49380951527904448342014-09-19T18:06:28.135-04:002014-09-19T18:06:28.135-04:00I'd deliberately lost that link because it dev...I'd deliberately lost that link because it devoured so much of my time.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-20027347376101001162014-09-19T18:04:12.921-04:002014-09-19T18:04:12.921-04:00I think we can all agree that we're all brilli...I think we can all agree that we're all brilliant.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-29721504559157591662014-09-19T18:03:27.925-04:002014-09-19T18:03:27.925-04:00Where are you people getting coffee for a dollar f...Where are you people getting coffee for a dollar fifty these days? I must be too urban. I can't seem to get it for less than $1.94. (<=that was me missing the point)Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-56186344102285268102014-09-19T04:50:02.175-04:002014-09-19T04:50:02.175-04:00Oh, let me know when it's out. I'd love to...Oh, let me know when it's out. I'd love to review it.<br /><br />The psych hospital was pretty creepy. But not sexy. (On the other hand, that was when I was anorexic - didn't have the physical energy to think about sex.)Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-44001688517511313932014-09-18T21:37:47.089-04:002014-09-18T21:37:47.089-04:00I love the good news in these comments. Girl Crazy...I love the good news in these comments. Girl Crazy on a general fiction shelf! I wouldn't have guessed either. So apparently I don't have to console everyone here with the hope that we might all be discovered after our deaths, like Emily Dickinson (whose poems are definitely in all the university libraries in the U.S. Northeast, but who didn't get much published in her lifetime). Like water, erotic books seem to seep into unexpected places.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-64512971785125669182014-09-18T21:29:57.518-04:002014-09-18T21:29:57.518-04:00If you try to write something that doesn't int...If you try to write something that doesn't interest you, you'll do a crappy job. Your muse will make sure of it. That's why your writing keeps morphing into what you're meant to write. Sad, but true. I, also, earn next to nothing from my writing. I have 2 day jobs. But I'm proud to say I'm a published author, though that and $1.50 will get me a cup of java. Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-24003270645606374772014-09-18T18:32:17.810-04:002014-09-18T18:32:17.810-04:00It's the mark of a brilliant writer that even ...It's the mark of a brilliant writer that even stories intended to be stupid can't help veering into idiosyncratic excellence. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-91716614576465706572014-09-18T18:28:50.783-04:002014-09-18T18:28:50.783-04:00Jeremy, you knew that library link would suck me i...Jeremy, you knew that library link would suck me in! It's a good thing I planned on leftovers for dinner, or I might not get around making any.<br /><br />I had no idea! Lots of college libraries! Harvard! Brown! But not my own alma mater.Maybe if I contributed books? Or at least let them know that I'm an alumna under my real name?Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-55933408046185231412014-09-18T18:13:00.514-04:002014-09-18T18:13:00.514-04:00I just looked to see what they did. (Yes, I have t...I just looked to see what they did. (Yes, I have to admit that I hadn't opened my copy to read yet.) You should at least get an extra copy as an apology! And in a few years the book will be collectable because of the error, like postage stamps. (Don't we wish!)Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-36834509944888106922014-09-18T16:23:02.603-04:002014-09-18T16:23:02.603-04:00Oh yeah! That's the book where my name is spel...Oh yeah! That's the book where my name is spelled wrong (which made my girlfriend very angry because "why don't they take you seriously enough to spell your name right? You're a famous author!" Awww it's cute that you think so, honey.)Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-56733195480632106222014-09-18T12:26:06.612-04:002014-09-18T12:26:06.612-04:00Could it be that it's hard for a brilliant per... Could it be that it's hard for a brilliant person to write stupid books? Does the intelligence come through anyway?<br /><br />Simple demographics tell us the middle range of intelligence is the largest group. Although lots of readers can read and enjoy stories that don't come up to their personal intelligence level, not as many care to go very deep. Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-44124793579915813392014-09-18T11:41:32.069-04:002014-09-18T11:41:32.069-04:00Wow, look how many of you are here in Northampton,...Wow, look how many of you are here in Northampton, in this one antho (also currently checked out)!<br /><br />https://bark.cwmars.org/eg/opac/record/3327780Jeremy Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980177431018869829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-89720476096252908232014-09-18T11:33:59.756-04:002014-09-18T11:33:59.756-04:00^^This made me look Sacchi up in this region's...^^This made me look Sacchi up in this region's library database. She's on the shelf—or, rather, currently checked out—in Springfield, MA!<br /><br />https://bark.cwmars.org/eg/opac/record/3312938<br /><br />And, for handy reference, here's a world library database where we can all look ourselves up:<br /><br />http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearchJeremy Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980177431018869829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-7958555698178753182014-09-18T11:32:16.106-04:002014-09-18T11:32:16.106-04:00I don't think people have to be stupid to like...I don't think people have to be stupid to like stupid stuff. My mom and my youngest sister love movies I find stupid. I think it's just escapism.<br /><br />The Jean Cocteau movie was on TV the exact same day I pulled Belle/Bete off my shelf and I was feeling too stupid to watch it. heh. I like the stupid version. (Well, I did when it came out but damn that was over 20 years ago.)<br /><br />"Fuck the maid" made me laugh because the other novel I wrote "for the market" is called A Man Needs A Maid. It's a billionaire/maid book. Because billionaires were the big thing. But then I sat on it too long and the trend came and went... it also turned into a ME book insofar as the billionaire's house is haunted. HA! I loves me a haunted house.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-6355308289029100122014-09-18T11:25:00.553-04:002014-09-18T11:25:00.553-04:00Hope it wasn't anything like the one in this b...Hope it wasn't anything like the one in this book! Thinking I might release Seven Kisses in November. I started working on the cover yesterday, but it was fighting me all the way.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-7394780116353073072014-09-18T11:23:00.808-04:002014-09-18T11:23:00.808-04:00Thanks!
Also off-topic, but I have a message for...Thanks! <br /><br />Also off-topic, but I have a message for Sacchi too (ha!): I saw your anthology Girl Crazy at the library the other day. It was shelved with general fiction, right there in the Gs. I think it was even shelved among novels rather than short story collections, but either way it was front and centre, not hidden away in some dark recess of the library. Made me smile.Giselle Renardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755448116234634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-65960087451481513392014-09-18T08:39:28.288-04:002014-09-18T08:39:28.288-04:00Giselle:
I shouldn't laugh at another authors ...Giselle:<br />I shouldn't laugh at another authors foibles but you got me with 'write stupid book'. It's so telling of an author's life. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of my hero's of the big screen. He can't act worth a damn, even after all these years, but he's made about a billion more than Robert Duvall who is a damn fine actor. Make stupid movies is no doubt on Arnold's to do list-right after, fuck with the maid. <br /><br />Speaking of movies, the best ever version of Beauty and the Beast (IMO) is Jean Cocteau's 1946 masterpiece. Disney made all the money with the stupid version.<br /><br />Sometimes you must feel like the kid in the paranormal thriller, "Sixth Sense"..."I see stupid people everywhere...and they don't know they are stupid."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15484640447109164744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-77342242525255144702014-09-18T08:30:48.345-04:002014-09-18T08:30:48.345-04:00Giselle, I'm so tired of "normal". I...Giselle, I'm so tired of "normal". I love your stories, which combine wild, off-the-wall, filthy fantasies with tremendous literary competence. Yeah, I know, that and $1.50... <br /><br />Well, if it makes you feel any better, you're one of the few erotica writers whose books I've actually paid for. (I get most of my erotica either free as a reviewer, or free as a contributor.)<br /><br />And I think I need to buy <i>Seven Kisses</i>, having been confined in a quite Victorian psychiatric institution for several months during my late teens! Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-79237151155410816322014-09-18T07:30:14.371-04:002014-09-18T07:30:14.371-04:00Totally off-topic (except insofar as the topic is ...Totally off-topic (except insofar as the topic is your special gifts as a writer): I loved your story in <i>Hungry for More</i> [Sacchi, left-angle-bracket-i-right-angle-bracket Hungry for More left-angle-bracket-SLASH-i-right-angle-bracket to get italics here]. The sense of warm abandon that pervaded the situation as it played out was wonderfully, movingly captivating.Jeremy Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980177431018869829noreply@blogger.com