Litbloggers everywhere have been outed by one Ed Champion. While, from the outside, it may have appeared that the bulk of us were behaving in at least a semi-altruistic mode with our scribblings - Ed, with his view from the inside, dishes the scoop on 21 of us.
Sadly, in outing some of us, he has also outed some fine writers as well:
"Dan Wickett’s notion of an emerging writer has less to do with literature and more to do with the way a particular male organ emerges from a pair of boxers. For many years, Mr. Wickett has been making a little pocket money (pardon the pun) by disseminating certain photographs of midlist writers. This explains his considerable ebullience and his replies to email at odd hours. Upon receipt of a starving writer’s genital dauggerotype (yes, he insists upon dauggerotypes), a small cash payment is then sent to a Mailboxes, Etc. outlet in Michigan and Mr. Wickett then writes a little something about each writer in question on his blog. This is a carefully concealed form of buzz marketing that has shocked the litblogosphere."
For a moment I was about to hop on my white steed and ride off to battle with my thesaurus, defending EWN's darling.
Instead, I read the post and accidentally inhaled Diet Cherry Pepsi while laughing.
Dan, once you've been parodied, you've hit it big.
Posted by: Kristin | June 14, 2006 at 09:07 PM
want everyone to know the photos I sent Dan required an extra large envelop.
Posted by: steven gillis | June 15, 2006 at 07:29 AM
However, one may note the lack of reviews of Mr. Gillis' books on the site anywhere - large envelope, plus small print on the bottom that original document had been blown up 800% ...
Posted by: Dan Wickett | June 15, 2006 at 08:48 AM