Tuesday, February 3, 2009

This is one of those posts where I have nothing to say...

...but feel the need to say something because it has been one month since my last post. This may indicate that my life has been largely uneventful otherwise unworthy of celebration, or it may mean that I have been deliriously happy, or occupied with projects so fascinating that I’ve been unable to tear myself away. All of the above are somewhat true. I’m getting a lot of writing done. No funerals or weddings or births in the past month. No salmonella or septicemia or bubonic plague. The dogs have been obsessed with moving from one sunny spot to another. No travel. No flat tires or furnace failures during our subzero January. No emergency room visits. No meteorites crashing through the house. I’m midway through a Lost marathon, watching seasons two through four on hulu.com (four or five episodes a day) and enjoying it tremendously. Life is good. I even got a laugh out of the latest one star review of my novel Sweetblood on Amazon.com. Here is the review in its entirety:
Now that is an effective review.  You know exactly where the reviewer is coming from and what she thinks about the book, all in 25 words.  If only I could express myself so succinctly.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Hautman, How can anyone not like you book "sweetblood", Im pretty sure that this guy (L. Hatem) is looney,and cant dosent know great writing when he reads it. This book is 5 stars all the way.

Pete Hautman said...

Thank you! I suspect that L. Hatem (love that name!) is fundamentalist of some sort. She/he has posted many similar reviews on Amazon, objecting to words such as "the h-word" (hell) and "the b-word" (bitch). Still, one must admire her/his economy of language!

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Pete Hautman said...

Sorry, I'm trying to keep this blog rated PG...