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Monday, December 22, 2003 My sister tells me that she reads this blog and the thing she likes best (besides the "crazy" links I put up and my occasional mention of my "numbered" roommates) are the comments. Well, at least visitors will now know that their responses will not be in vain. We also tried making a chicken and mushroom quiche the other day. The trick is to not leave it in the oven too long or the chicken will dry out. Dried chicken tastes a lot like the dried meat stuff in plastic containers, the kind sold in Asian food stores. It's usually used to flavor rice porridge. I've also been writing for the last couple of days since I came home. I'm past the 25,000 word mark now, but the draft is really, really bad. It will never see the light of day in its present form if I can help it. I wonder if anyone has done a study to see what names would sell the most books or would induce a customer to pick up a book. We could have controls by having the same exact story with the same cover and the same title. Only the author's name would be different. Would a "John Smith" or a "Jane Doe" sell more books than a "Mortimer Granowsky" or "Shenesha Merhered"? Would any hint of ethnicity in a name alter how often someone would pick up a book? [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 12:14 PM : ]
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