Poisoned Pen YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\nNow as promised, the feedback:<\/p>\n
First off, let\u2019s start with the glaring typo that got past me\u2014Thereby hangs the tail. That\u2019s actually the title of a Spencer Quinn Chet and Bernie novel. (By the way, if you haven\u2019t read any of those, you might enjoy them. They\u2019re fun, and the canine narrator\u2019s observations are hilarious.) But that\u2019s not what I meant when I was writing the blog. I meant \u201cThereby hangs the tale.\u201d Big difference. Not only do I know the difference between tail and tale, I actually typed T-A-L-E, but my old friend autocorrect miscorrected it. (Incidentally, the inventor of auto correct died recently. His funnel is tomato!)<\/p>\n
I heard from a woman who was a girlhood friend of my two older sisters and someone I haven\u2019t seen in more than seventy years. It was fun to reconnect with her by email.<\/p>\n
And speaking of reconnection, two separate replies made it possible for me to reunite a pair of old friends who had fallen out of touch for a number of years. That felt good.<\/p>\n
One woman wrote to say she knew of a place where I could get a good new head shot for a very reasonable price. I appreciated the suggestion, but I think she missed the point. At age eighty, there are no good NEW headshots!<\/p>\n
Someone else, an audio reader, wrote to say how much she dislikes the musical interludes between chapters. Unfortunately, that\u2019s not something I can fix. Audio book production practices are above my pay grade.<\/p>\n
Someone else said that she likes the Beaumonts and Bradys but not the Ali Reynolds books. That\u2019s fine. The world is made up of different kinds of people and readers, and we\u2019re all entitled to our own opinions. In the eighties I remember what seemed like an elderly woman telling me, \u201cHoney, thank God we\u2019re not all just alike. Otherwise, we\u2019d all be married to the same man and drive a Mustang.”<\/p>\n
Another woman mentioned finding a timeline issue concerning one character who died in one book and then miraculously reappeared alive and well in another. She blamed it on my editors. I blame it on me. Over the course of writing more than sixty books in forty years, it\u2019s hard to remember each and every tiny detail, and there are bound to be errors, but here\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n
When I was on the reservation, I learned that each work of art\u2014each basket; each piece of beadwork; each piece of pottery\u2014has to have at least one error because only the Great Spirit is perfect.<\/p>\n
That works for me!<\/p>\n
PS. Last but not least, here\u2019s a late-breaking response that showed up just in time to make the blog deadline.<\/p>\n
There is a guy and his gal from Guelph,
\nWho found you up there on a shelf.
\nWe\u2019ve read all you\u2019ve written
\nAnd with you are quite smitten,
\nEven if you don\u2019t look like yourself.<\/p>\n
Turns out that one, coming from fans in Guelph, Ontario, Canada is the highlight of my week and my all-time favorite limerick! Thank you, David and Joanie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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