Guest Blog- Jeremy Edwards and Jeremy Edwards!!

I am chuffed to bits to have the wonderful Jeremy Edwards with me!! Over to you Jeremy…

Thank you, fabulous Kay, for inviting me here today!

Though I’m a guest on this blog, I’ve taken the liberty of bringing along a guest of my own:

Young Jeremy Edwards

*My thirteen-year-old writer self!*

There he is at the typewriter in early 1976, possibly writing the very story shown in the screen-capture excerpt. At the risk of interrupting a writer in flow—after all, I *know* he managed to finish the story, so we needn’t worry too much—I’m going to initiate a little person-to-same-person-only-younger chat.

OLD JEREMY

I’m very impressed with your prose, I have to say. (I trust it’s not unseemly for me to compliment myself in this fashion. I think enough time has elapsed to make it OK.) Kudos to you for changing “remember” to “recall,” when you’d just had “remembered” two sentences earlier. That’s exactly what *I* would do!

YOUNG JEREMY

Cool.

OLD JEREMY

Along those lines, you might want to watch out for an excess of “almosts”—you have three in that first paragraph. Keep in mind you can use “nearly” or “practically.” And don’t overlook the possibility that the qualifier might actually be unnecessary in some instances.

Also: The Robins/Robinson thing works neatly, but in general I advise steering clear of character names ending in “s,” because the possessives become awfully messy…

YOUNG JEREMY

[Nods absently while leafing through Mad magazine.]

OLD JEREMY

Anyway … I notice that your story excerpt is set in what was then the future, with a specific reference to a “past” event in 2010. This made me laugh when I pulled the story out of the filing cabinet and read it for the first time in a decade or two, because it happened to *be* 2010 at the time. Any particular reason you chose that specific year?

YOUNG JEREMY

I just wanted something different from 2000, because everyone writes about the future being in 2000. And 2001 has been used, too.

Jeremy Edwards- All Grown Up!

OLD JEREMY

Actually, Clarke later wrote a sequel called 2010. But I believe that’s after your time.

So is this what you want to be, a writer?

YOUNG JEREMY

Well, I really want to be a famous actor. You know, a comedian and movie star. And be on TV, of course.

OLD JEREMY

Ah. Well, *in a way*, you will be on TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MQqEweGQI&feature=player_embedded

YOUNG JEREMY

I love acting. I was in one play this winter—I was the star!—and there was a cute girl in the cast …

OLD JEREMY

Yes, I remember!

YOUNG JEREMY

But sometimes I just feel like sitting down and writing a story. It’s neat when that happens.

OLD JEREMY

I agree.

By the way, your wristwatch is facing in an odd direction.

YOUNG JEREMY

It keeps sliding around! It really bugs the hell out of me.

OLD JEREMY

I know. I stopped wearing them altogether—even before we had portable phones that gave us the time.

YOUNG JEREMY

Are they picture phones?

OLD JEREMY

The portable ones? No, not per se.

YOUNG JEREMY

I have a friend whose dad works for the phone company, and he says we’ll all have picture phones soon. They got to test one out in their house.

OLD JEREMY

That sounds great—if you don’t mind having other phone-company families as your only friends.

YOUNG JEREMY

Hahahaha. I like your sense of humor.

OLD JEREMY

I hoped you might.

YOUNG JEREMY

But I always imagined you’d have a mustache.

OLD JEREMY

By the way, you might be interested to know that my latest novel is set in the 1930s.

YOUNG JEREMY

Cool! Groucho Marx is my idol. Charlie Chaplin used to be my favorite, but that was before I knew about the Marx Brothers. Now they’re making new movies set in the thirties. Paper Moon and The Sting are two of the best movies I’ve seen. Paper Moon was the first PG movie I was allowed to go to. It’s so funny! Does your 1930s book have funny parts?

OLD JEREMY

I think I can safely say you’ll approve of it, when you’re old enough to read it. And write it.

YOUNG JEREMY

Don’t forget to put some “PG” stuff in it, like they do in the M*A*S*H books. [Does “Groucho” business with eyebrows.]

OLD JEREMY

Thank you. I’ll make a note.

The Pleasure Dial:

An Erotocomedic Novel of Old-Time Radio

by Jeremy Edwards

Available in paperback and e-book form from OC Press  and other vendors.

The year is 1934, and amiable New York gag writer Artie Plask has taken the West Coast plunge. His first day on staff with a top radio show introduces him to the irresistible Mariel Fenton, a wit among wits who immediately takes an interest in all aspects of Artie’s life—especially his private life. As Artie finds his feet in a world of blustering comedians, pansexual sex goddesses, timid screen legends, exhibitionistic scriptwriters, and self-infatuated geniuses, Mariel leads him on a zany journey up and down the pleasure dial—a giddy romp through Hollywood that’s chock-full of airwaves showdowns, writing-room counterplots, devious impersonations, naked meetings, and a sensuality-drenched assortment of erotic escapades.

Thanks ever so much for popping by Jeremy- and Young Jeremy of course (not to mention the ’TV’ Jeremy!!) Huge congrats on the paperback version of The Pleasure Dial hun! It is a wonderful book.

If any of you missed my review of this excellent work of comedy erotica, then just follow this link!

Happy reading everybody.

Kay xx