Evil Editor's Blog, page 450

Fake Plots Needed

Now that we have several queries waiting, we just need some fake plots for the Guess the Plot feature. There's a link to the titles in the sidebar. Give priority to the ones at the top of the list.

A few fake titles are still needed as well (scroll down to the post titled "Prep."[image error]

Feedback Request

The author of Flight of Faith (Face-Lift 528) has a new version she'd like you to look at. I'm placing it below, as the old comment trail is lengthy, and some of you may not wish to scroll through it.


Orphan Lia Falwin is through battling demons (at least her personal ones). She’s managed to cultivate a quiet life as caretaker for a secluded Takadian manor, complete with surrogate family, good friends, and strong faith. Lia wants things to stay just as they are. When she receives an unsigned lett

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When the alarm screamed out, I watched them run for the elevators, moving people out of their way as they ran the length of narrow hall, carpeted for quiet. What I’d just seen was the truth of what they were underneath all their strong pretending.

Then, later on, when it was all over, I watched them being really nice and polite and polished up again. But I knew. I still knew, and I wouldn’t let them work on me to make me forget what they were underneath all that polite pinstriped suit crap, down

Cartoon 384

Caption: Whirlochre

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Queries and Openings Needed

At the moment we have zero of both. I know you old-timers have sent everything you have, so it's up to the newbies to fill the queues. Openings can be from short stories as well as novels.[image error]

Prep

Below are descriptions of eight published cookbook/memoirs. Each has a somewhat amusing title. Your job is to come up with fake titles for any or all of them, to be used in a "Guess the Title" quiz.


1. From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of the author's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.

2. Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job,

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"Inhabitants of the Kingdom are being slaughtered! What are you doing about it?"

Those were the words which greeted me as I came before Eschae, the Kingdom Mare. I had been summoned in the wee hours of the night without being told what the emergency was. Now I knew. Unfortunately, I still didn't know what in the hell she was talking about.

"I'm sorry, Miss Mare. I don't know anything about a slaughter."

She stomped her foot and swished her tail angrily. "I thought not!" She paced, blowing heavily.

Cartoon 383

Caption: Whirlochre

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New Beginning 636

I stood in the land of shadows staring at a world of light. Tendrils of darkness circled my legs, scuttled up my back and twisted around my wings, and for a moment I looked back the way I’d come. Ominous mountains impaled low-hanging clouds, and in the distance a shining black castle perched above a ravenous sea. Studying the familiar caves, the places I had explored as a child, I waited for the single tear to well up in my eye, reminding me of all I was giving up. Nothing came.

I cast the darkne

Cartoon 382

Caption: Anon.

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