I'm in a book!

[cleolinda]

You know, a long while back, Diane Duane (the Young Wizards series) asked me if she could use my name for a character, but a couple of years went by and I forgot about it. But then particle_person picked up a copy of Omnitopia Dawn.

I definitely endorse this product and/or service. Please go read it (it's the first in a series! You don't have to catch up on anything!) and confirm/deny whether Aunt Cleolinda is awesome. Of course, if a single name-drop is my only appearance, that is perfectly cromulent, because clearly there is some kind of awesome bike and I want to ride it, which makes me an awesome bike-riding aunt. I can definitely live with this.


ETA: As someone in the comments reminded me--if you really want to get your mind blown, take a gander at the listing for a TV movie she cowrote back in the day. It's gone by at least six different titles that I know of, but I heard of it at a costume site (lo these many years ago) as "Kingdom in Twilight."

Comments

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Eeeee, that is so cool!

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

ha, awesome!

[arianna77.livejournal.com]

I used to LOVE the Young Wizards series! This is very cool, go you!

[jeeperstseepers.livejournal.com]

Awesome on two levels! 1) Aunt Cleolinda and the Bike of Awesome, and 2) a new Duane book I knew nothing about!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

This!

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Aw, congratulations! I think we should start calling you Aunt Cleolinda. It just sounds so cool, like when the dolls call you Miss Cleo.

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

I can't call her aunt Cleo! I am older than her! (i think)

[piccgirl.livejournal.com]

So awesome!

=D

[fading-october.livejournal.com]

This is awesome

[midnightblooms.livejournal.com]

That is so cool. Also, I want an awesome-bike-riding Aunt Cleolinda.

[trialia]

Hee, shiny! I really want to get hold of Omnitopia Dawn some time in the next two weeks, so I can take it to DWcon and ask her to sign it. :D

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

:D

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that's awesome! I love her Young Wizards books!

[valancy-s.livejournal.com]

Diane Duane wrote Barbie: Fairytopia! Also that Ring of the Nibelungs TV movie! Those are my favorite facts about her.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, Shakespeare got to get paid.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN RIDE MY AWESOME BIKE

This is completely badass. Hooray!

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Incidentally, I just finished watching and MST3K of an old, black-and-white, Flash-Gordon-ripoff type space movie in which the evil empress's name was Cleolonda. I thought that was neat.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wow, for real?

[editornia.livejournal.com]

Awesome!! :D

[big-wired.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, yah!!! I LOVE Diane Duane! She wrote this awesome trilogy of novels for Marvel centering on Spider-Man back in the 90s. I am so envious of you!

[snippy]

Hey, I bought the e-book on Sunday for my nook! Some coincidence.

Idid too

[nancybout.livejournal.com]

I love it!!
I love the Lend me feature too!=)
Right now only book I have on that is "fallen" :)
I got it for my b day:)
Best gift!

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

So, you want to be a wizard? :D

I picked up that book solely for its title years ago, and I remember being so confused when I read it. I gave it another chance about a year later, and then I read all seven (?) books in the next two weeks.

Basically, for that + Cleolinda, Diane Duane is awesome. (Incidentally, do you even like to bike?)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't, actually (not that she knows that). Generally I fall off them. Well, I did as a kid, and that--I won't say it "traumatized" me, but it put me off them.

Another reason she's awesome: she comments at Fandom Wank sometimes, or at least she used to. I loved watching people lose their shit when they realized it was really her.

[rina2o6.livejournal.com]

That's awesome - I loved the Young Wizards series when I was younger. The original trilogy anyway, apparently it kept going....but anywho, that's a pretty cool name drop!

[vivian-lake.livejournal.com]

Congradulations!

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that "I'm in a book" is your new "I'm on a horse".

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

If I could have used strikethrough in an entry title field, I COMPLETELY would have said that.

[sixthbrightest.livejournal.com]

I love Diane Duane, and I love your writing, so this is super awesome :D Congrats!

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is so awesome!

[amaz0n-princess.livejournal.com]

oh that's AWESOME!!

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Who is this Uncle Jim that is stealing your thunder? ;P

This is so cool!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I suspect "Uncle Jim" is Jim Macdonald over at Making Light.