Margaret at BooksPlease has tagged me with the 10 Signs a Book Has Been Written by Me meme. For some reason I found this hard, but here goes nothing:
- It defies genre
- It has historical elements
- It attempts to examine a big idea
- It has one or more characters who are vegan and portrayed as perfectly normal and ordinary people
- It has a female protagonist who doesn’t worry about clothes/hair/makeup/men and who wears sensible shoes
- Literary references pop up out of nowhere
- Emerson either makes a personal appearance and/or is talked about or quoted
- There would be typos because of cats walking across the computer keyboard
- There would be a note on the type at the end of the book indicating what typeface was used and giving a brief description of its history
- The cover of the book would not be pink
There you have it. How about you? Would you like to play along?
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I enjoyed your answers. I giggled at your reference to Emerson — of course! P.S. Are you going through the whole series of VW’s diaries? (Do you have them or are you getting them from the library?)
Woulds’t that I can read Proust! Sigh.
This book sounds great! I particularly love #5 — yay for female protagonists who wear sensible shoes!
I’d buy it, in hardcover even!
lol @ normal vegan characters-that’d be refreshing!
I must say, though, I love me some clothes and shoes.
Almost all my shoes are flats, though, and even the heels aren’t super high.
It’s just me – but this seems the most sensible of taste: “The cover of the book would not be pink”
I don’t think I have ever read any book with characters who are sensible vegans with sensible shoes. Does this book even exist?
This made me laugh and laugh. Ok, so…. Emers@n is a vegan who falls in love with a tremendously down-to-earth, sensible shoe-wearing woman and together they found an intellectual society….. am I getting somewhere near it?
I remember being in a writing class once and saying I would rather not be published than be published in a pink cover – the writing tutor (a published author) then said she was thrilled when her book came out in pink! In total I learned more in the way of what not to write than what to write from her!
I wonder what Emerson will be doing.
I am finishing up a book, and literary references pop up out of nowhere. But, my three-year-old has made it very clear that if his mother is going to disappear each day to write a book, the cover had BEST be pink.
Wonderful! Loved your answers. It could be like Where’s Emerson and in each chapter we have to find him – here he’s sharing a meal with some totally normal vegans, here he’s solving the mystery of the defective typewriter, here he is lecturing about the importance of sensible shoes…
Really good answers. Of course I should have guessed Emerson would be in there somewhere. I’m glad I’m not the only one who found this meme hard!
My typing is constantly interrupted by my cat walking across the keyboard too and sitting on it.
LK, yes I am reading through all of VW’s diaries, very slowly. Yes, I have them all, collected over the span of several years.
Dorothy, I’ve never understood how heroines could run in spiked heels and catch the bad guy or escape from the bad guy. It’s impossible to run far or fast on your toes.
Sylvia, I’ll send you an autographed copy
Eva, some may wonder how “normal” and “vegan” can even be written in the same sentence. I’ll let you take my character shopping for a wardrobe
Dark Orpheus, this book does not exist as far as I know. You are welcome, however, to take my ideas and run with them
Litlove, I don’t even need to write the book, you can go ahead and do it for me!
Jem, heh, at least you did learn something in the class even if it wasn’t what you expected.
Emily, LOL, I would relent and have a pink cover on the book if I had a three-year-old who demanded it.
Verbivore, I love it! Especially the lecture on the importance of sensible shoes!
BooksPlease, thanks for tagging me, it was a fun meme. Maybe we should let our cats collaborate on a novel?
I love #s 4, 7, and 8! So, when will you be done writing it?
I’m always annoyed by typos in books; however, in light of your list, I must rethink this. Perhaps all those typos were actually just caused by cats walking on typewriters. Puts a different cast on things.