Saturday, May 12, 2012

#SweetSat: Thar she blows


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It's been a while since I've done a Sweet Saturday Sample. Welcome, all you samplers!

The P-Town Queen is coming June 4!
To celebrate, I wanted to share a little excerpt from the book.


In my lifetime I have learned, among other things, not to overcook veal and never to forget a woman’s name the morning after. On that day I added another little ditty to my list: never blow up a dead whale with dynamite.
Max Groper had figured it for a horror show and so had washed his hands of the whole mess and stormed off to his van. Nikki, too, must have figured what would happen, but that woman likes trouble, I swear to God. “We’d better stand back,” she said, with the same amused mischief in her eyes that she’d had at Good Vibrations. The cops had, in fact, already pushed the entire crowd back, so Nik and I went to stand in the front line, so to speak, right where the lot meets the beach in front of the first row of cars. “I wish I’d brought the video camera,” Nik said. “I hope someone is recording this for posterity.”  I looked around and noticed at least three video cams trained on the whale, which was now being wired for a trip to kingdom come. “YouTube bonanza,” said Nikki, “I’m surprised that the folks from Channel Four aren’t here.”
“Maybe we should go wait in the truck,” I said. I had this bad feeling that flying whale parts wasn’t going to be like the fountain light show at the Bellagio in Vegas.



12 comments:

  1. Oh, what a funny sight that must be!

    Thanks for sharing your snippet...today is my first foray into Sweet Saturday Samples, and here's MY SWEET SATURDAY SAMPLE

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  2. That's an excellent excerpt. Short and funny with much left to the imagination. Good job.

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  3. Love the "voice" - it definitely makes me want to read the book. Ewww...whale parts....

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    1. Marco was lots of fun to write. He's a 'how ya doin' kinda guy!

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  4. LMAO at the visual of an exploded whale

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    1. Thanks Lindsay. I hate to say it, but I did not make this up. They actually blew up a dead whale on a beach in Oregon back in the seventies. Truth is stranger than fictio!

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  5. THE P-TOWN QUEEN is a title I can relate to. I live in a little town in Texas that I often refer to as "Ptown". LOL. Thanks for sharing!

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    1. Ooh,how cool! I didn't know there was another P-town. Here in New England P-town refers to Provincetown on Cape Cod!

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  6. I love the opening lines .... blowing up a whale in the same category as overcooking veal and not forgetting a woman's name seems like the premise of a great story.

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  7. Thanks Iris, though this isn't the opening! The scene is in the middle of the book. Nice to think it could have been an opening scene :)

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