Beta Testing

Hi folks,

I've got an early version of the website up now. What do you think?

Ganzfield.com

My Smutty Mouth

I write YA books, which generally have two features that distinguish them from books for adults.

1) the MC is a teenager.

2) there's NO SEX OR PROFANITY. Or, if there is, it's rare and toned-down.

I'm pretty cognizant of these things when I write, or when I post things online. I don't want to have my plans for literary world domination derailed by a viral YouTube post of me drunk, half-naked, painted blue, and screaming obscenities at a collection of nuns, cops, and large-eyed orphan children.

So it's a good thing that wasn't caught on video.

Uh, I mean -- so it's a good thing I'd never do that. *

* they weren't real nuns.

You therefore can imagine my surprise this weekend when I tried to update my Amazon profile and received an error message stating that "Amazon does not allow profanity in their user profiles."

At first, I thought I'd made some sort of Freudian slip. In the early 1990s, whenever I'd write something about a "floppy disk," I had an obsessive fear that I'd accidentally replace the "s" in "disk" with a "c."

Stick your floppy disk in here.

Is your floppy disk full?

Beware of spreading viruses with your floppy disk.

So, I re-read my entry carefully, trying to spot my typo:

My first novel, MINDER, comes out in June 2010. It's YA-fantasy/paranormal-romance. If you like YA-fan-par-rom, check it out! I'll have fun stuff and giveaways on www.ganzfield.com soon, too.

All I can figure is that "YA-fan-par-rom" is an obscure freakiness, like a fetish for clowns or something. But I don't know. So, if you DO know what I wrote that triggered Amazon's profanity censors, please post a comment.*

* or send me an email, if it's too graphic to describe publicly or involves something truly kinky, like a bizarre attraction to Civil War re-enactors.

Last Chance for Log-Lines!

Please post your submissions in the comments section of Wednesday's post. I'll announce the winner on Monday (or even earlier, if I feel like it).

I'm still working on the nuts-and-bolts of world domination. Who knew that global conquest involved so much paperwork?

BTW, I just signed up for READERCON. If you'll be in the Boston area this July, come! Find me, mention the blog, and I'll give you a Disgruntled Bear t-shirt (or a pen from my purse, if I run out of shirts).

And, let's start the weekend off right with a jaw-droppingly awesome link:
http://www.duckbrand.com/Promotions/stuck-at-prom.aspx