Thursday, October 27, 2011

Well would you look at that

'There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about.'

-- Oscar Wilde




(From Bookseller & Publisher Online today.)
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13 comments:

  1. ElisabethOctober 27, 2011 at 6:34 PM

    Congratulations. Nothing like arousing the chatter of admiration, worse if it's scorn, but of course it wouldn't be that, not alongside those others.

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  2. Kerryn GoldsworthyOctober 27, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    Yes, the company is pretty illustrious all right.

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  3. NabakovOctober 27, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    Cool!

    Now if only you'd worked into your subtitle "The secret love tapes of Michael Jackson", you'd be cresting on Google trends as well.

    Ms WV just asked me to write 'hiesityl'. Working on getting it now - with a Glenmorangie Quinta Ruba in one hand, a jazz cigarette in the other and the mouse in the third.

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  4. Kerryn GoldsworthyOctober 27, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    I'm drinking brandy, myself. If I'd known I was going to make this curry, I would have bought some beer.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 9:25 AM

    Good review in yesterday's InDaily too.

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  6. Kerryn GoldsworthyOctober 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    Really, Phill? Thanks for the heads-up -- but I can't find it!

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  7. elsewhereOctober 28, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    Congratulations! That's great news. Now for a byline about a street-sweeper getting married in Adelaide.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Sorry Kerryn, a bum steer. It was Wednesday's. Here's the link.


    http://www.indaily.com.au/?iid=55701#folio=008

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  9. Kerryn GoldsworthyOctober 28, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    Thanks Phill, I tracked it down. Have been amused by the several people (all men) including this dude complaining that I didn't write about sport. The two or three times I have written about sport in the past, certain men have fallen over themselves in their eagerness to tell me that I've Got It All Wrong.

    El, yes, that would work. Or perhaps a screenplay?

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  10. FredOctober 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    I've read the illustrious work until I reached "cattywampus". I'm now on high alert for any other feline words that PC has snuck in.

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  11. Kerryn GoldsworthyOctober 28, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    Google it! It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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  12. Nigel FeatherstoneOctober 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Brilliant.

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  13. paul walterOctober 29, 2011 at 5:21 PM

    Encouraging to see you've resisted the temptation to skite.
    Am embiggened, for this discovery that this cattywumpus is cromulent, but fear for its comfort and sense of well- being.
    Never cease to be amazed at codeword cromulence and neologesis at blogsites:
    The codeword this time is, "hymeness"(?)

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