COMEDY WRITER FALLS RIGHT OVER CLIFF
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I mean really bad.
My worst ever professional mistake
was in an Annual Report for a one-hundred-million dollar corporation, in which
an innocent little ‘t’ went missing from the word ‘assets.’ The board was not amused by “This year, we
experienced an increase in corporate asses.”
Today, I found out what one little vowel can do to ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, book 2 in the comic fantasy Land’s End series.
Okay, REALLY uncool when you
misspell the name of your own book on your own blog.
ROWENA AND THE DARK LARD is probably not the best way to get sales for
a fantasy series. However, as I do write comedy, I'm thinking about a parody.
Is it okay to write a parody of your own book?
Draft one: ROWENA AND THE DARK LARD
Synopsis 1: Rowena moves back to
Land’s End and opens up a bakery.
Synopsis 2: Cedric’s use of dark
magic goes totally out of control, and so does his appetite.
Synopsis 3: Thane and Rowena return
to Land’s End and become pig farmers.
Synopsis 4: Rowena messes up another
spell that causes all who look at her to turn into donuts.
Synopsis 5: Rowena kills off Nigella Lawson in a battle with
pastry rollers, and assumes the role of Prime Time Network Food Goddess
<sic>.
Synopsis 6: Someone takes a totally justified whack at the
author. End of series.
Excerpt from
ROWENA AND THE DARK
LORD
Men’s voices again, echoing like souls lost in a
fog. The mist lifted in one swift movement to disappear into nothingness. In
its place, were at least a hundred men.
Bugger! I messed up.
“Houston, we have a problem,” I said out loud. This
wasn’t supposed to happen. I must have pronounced one of the spell words wrong.
“Who is Houston?” Lars said.
“Romans!” Gareth hissed. He drew his sword.
“Romans?” I stared at the battle-scarred men before
us. They looked exhausted. They also looked bloody, dirty and rather short. Not
to mention confused.
How the heck could they be Romans?
Someone yelled “Form Square!” in—yup—that was
Latin.
“What the hell?” I stared. The men came to life
moving with purpose into a square. Within seconds we were facing a shield wall
bristling with spears.
The man on horseback stared at me. No stirrups on
his saddle. A helmet that was in history books. Definitely Roman. I stared back
at him.
Romans? In this time? What the poop had I done?
“It’s a freaking temporal rift!” My laugh was
strident. “Where the hell is Spock when you need him?
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| Rowena Through the Wall is the first book in the Land's End Series. |
ROWENA AND THE DARK
LORD Buy Link:
And the one that started it all: ROWENA THROUGH THE WALL, book 1 in the Land’s End series
