We probably don’t need to say this, but the formation of the Dear Author Literary Agency, the closing of Dear Author, and the injunctive suit against the Smart Bitches is all part of our April Foolery. Smart Bitches do have a book coming out on April 17 called Beyond Heaving Bosoms. (although, seriously, we do not want the secrets of the ICH to get out. It would shake the foundation of romance should villians get ahold of the secret of impregnating barren women. That plot line would be ruined forever and then what would happen to the baby epilogues?)
To make the Foolery seem more believable, we recruited several people into our scheme and we want to provide public thanks.
To Ron Hogan at beatrice.com and GalleyCat for writing up a piece entitled “True Love Takes a Detour to the Courtroom.” I particularly loved the comment to that piece.
To Malle Vallik, Digital Director at Harlequin for buying the novellas of Ann Aguirre and Gyna Colewater. Weredeer and the Millionaire Muffin Man are stories that can’t be missed.
To Jill Myles for writing the mock PM blurbs for the above mentioned books. (If you haven’t read them, you must. They are hilarious).
To Ann Aguirre for pretending to leave her awesome agent, Laura Bradford, and signing with DA Lit Agency.
To Laura Bradford for allowing us to “steal” away her client. As if that could ever happen in real life. Truly, all of Bradford’s clients adore her. (I plan to stalk her at RWA to learn her secrets in case I do open up a lit agency).
To Gena Showalter and Kresley Cole for allowing me to borrow their nom de plume: Gyna Colewater. If Gyna ever writes something, I know Malle will buy it.
To Simon & Schuster and Touchstone/Fireside for being good sports about the lawsuit.
To Maili who created the awesome cover art for my self published book, “The Buckillioniare’s Virgin Lawyer”. If you haven’t clicked on the cover to see the larger version, you are missing some pricless details. “It would take a light year (or two) to find…” Cataromance wrote a fabulous review for it.
And to Esosoft who helped out with our online shenanigans.
And, of course, to the Bitchery and the DA community (we need a name) for being good sports. See ya next year.
The DAvilry
The Littites
Meanies Ink aka The Jackals
The J’s
The Dumb Asses (jackass for short with the J consideration)
The Creamery (the dreamiest place of them all. Come one, come all!)
Jizzalious
J-Birds
The Jussive Jezebels
The Jiggery
The Jittery or The Jitters
The Jabbery
The Jacquerie
Jaded Dippers
Jawboners
Jeepers
or one of my personal favorites The Spinning Jenny(s)
Or Better yet why don’t you run a contest with prizes and stuff since I don’t know how to write sentences. sniff sniff Can’t find that damn Amazon link
TSTL
I’m sure some would suggest “coven” bwahhahhahaaa
@Robin: LOL! I like The Coven!
Would that make us smart witches? Maybe we can be the witchery.
Oh, you old crones, you.
LOL
“DAliterates”
or since so many are on twitter now ‘twitchery’ lol
I’m not on twitter. Am I missing out on a lot?
//hand face
But I just sent in my ENTIRE manuscript of Wicked Wereducks of WollyGolly! By your favorite medium, e-book style! SEND IT BACK! NOW!!!!!
Jane, I posted this at SBTB too, but thanks for one of the best April Fool’s. You two are full of awesome!
I like rebyj’s Twitchrey, btw. :) The DA Twitchery.
The ICH site was my fave. And the requests for non fiction fiction LOL.
But I am left wondering if anyone actually purchased any of the 110lb Crane stationary…
I took a look at the cover for ‘The Buckillioniare's Virgin Lawyer’ and was really impressed. Incredible detail. The ISBN was a nice touch. Being a library technician, I had to check to see if it was formatted correctly so I looked the number up. Wow. I mean, WOW. Now that's detail!