Meanwhile in Brag's Writing Cave. . .
Balz: If I can't have a U-boat command give me a job as a secret agent.
Brag: You're a Kaleun living during WWII and your position there is fixed.
Balz: I can wear a tea cozy in Africa, lots of people do that there.
Brag: No!
Balz: I can be a bad guy, I can doctor intelligence reports, I can commit treason, I can manipulate the press.
Brag: No!
Balz: I can create catastrophies.
Brag. We have created all that already in Kingmaker.
Balz: I can be a prtotagonist. I can fight evil, I can outsmart all my enemies. I hear you have one hell of a babe in Kingmaker. I could seduce her and find out her secrets.
Brag: No way!
Balz: I could say hoochie woochie in every page.
Brag: Aaaarrrgghh.
Balz: My choir would overwhelm the Evil One.
Brag: Maybe you could go out and sell Kignmaker.
Balz: Oh yeah?
Brag: Yup.
Balz: How should I pitch it?
Brag: Buy the book now. It doesn't have Balz, it doesn't have hoochie woochie nor tea cozies. It is a thriller of great suspense meant to nudge LeCaree into number two spot.
Balz: Phooey, go and sell that book yourself. Hoochie-woochie, boo-boom.
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