A Confession
So, I guess I may as well come clean. I have a Deep Dark Secret, which I am about to reveal, a Secret that goes to the very Core of My Being and is inextricably entangled with my Caps Lock button. I, DD Barant . . . am pseudonymous.
It’s sort of like being anonymous, but with worse spelling. What it means is that I, technically, am not a real person. I’m a pseudonym, from the Latin “pseudo”, meaning “made-up” and “nym”, meaning either an old animated movie about imprisoned mice or someone who likes sex and has a speech impediment.
What was my point again?
Oh, yeah. My questionable existence. Well, the thing is, I was made up by this writer who has more than one pseudonym, and therefore I’m not only fake, I’m not even the eldest sibling. (Don’t ask about my two brothers–one’s a maniac and the other’s a party animal). Anyway, I kind of resent the whole not-being-real-thing, which is why Jace sometimes sounds a little cranky. After all, she’s the fictional product of a made-up person, which could irritate anyone.
But I refuse to let this bother me. I have my own identity, damn it, and this blog is going to prove it. The Internet was made for people like me, personas who exist mainly in other people’s imaginations, and I plan on using it to express myself. Topics I may or may not touch on will include writing, public nudity, esoteric cocktails, creative people I admire, and frogs. Also, there may be random postings while drunk or after seeing a dentist. Comic books will no doubt be mentioned more than once, as well as ramblings on pop culture and the occasional rant on anything I feel like unloading on. There may even be a contest or two.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:53 am
hmmm…. i think i like you. do pseudonym go on book signings?
March 15th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
No, we send a pseudosurrogate. So if you ask me to do a signing and a guy shows up missing most of his teeth and smelling like tequila, he’s probably the one that was willing to work the cheapest. But I understand he does a heckuva reading.
March 26th, 2010 at 5:53 am
hi, i have read your book, Dying Bites. Its fantastic!!! Im looking forward to your next book. Keep going.
March 29th, 2010 at 10:40 am
HI:
I just finished Dying Bites, it was different and very refreshing to read. I will be getting Death Blows tomorrow. I hope there will be more books to come. Thank you for a great story.
March 29th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Read Dying Bites and was intrigued enough to check out your website. I was surprised. You write Jace very well. She is very much like my niece. My niece is now reading Dying Bites and I received Death Blows earlier today. I am about 1/3 of the way through and was checking for when Killer Rocks will be out.
It’s very unusual to find a male who writes a female lead so well. As a matter of fact, my favorite is Thomas Perry and now you. Please keep the books coming our way.
Thanks
March 29th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Now, wasn’t I the sexist. No where do you say you’re a male. I just assumed and I know better than that. Great books whoever you are…..lol
March 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Speaking of Death Blows, in any world where magic is so easy to cast as to make comic book writing dangerous, wouldn’t it make any sort of expression dangerous? Wouldn’t people come up with counters, just to keep Junior’s wall scribbles from crawling off the wall and harassing the cat?
And would punning be a death penalty offense?
March 30th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Alan: it’s not just the writing that makes it dangerous, it’s the blood sacrifice that goes with it. Kind of like my own stuff.
And punning is always a capital offense. But again, a fundamental rule of writing applies: the initial idea isn’t as important as the method of execution.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:26 am
Really love your first two books. Any idea when the next one will be released?
April 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 pm
I love your books. The characters seem actually real..other than you know, being supernatural. I am looking forward to the third book in the series! I am curious as to how/where the idea of corpsing came from though.
April 4th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Shelly and Dot, thank you very much. Dolly, KILLING ROCKS will be out in 2011, but I don’t have a pub date yet. Lese, corpsing was a riff on piercing–I thought, what would a teenager in a supernatural universe do to freak out their parents and look cool to all their friends? I mean, tattoos are SO last century.
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April 15th, 2010 at 5:56 am
I have no idea what the photo guy above me is talking about. However, I’m in love with these books already. Keep up the great work, and I’ll keep on reading them. I’ll even stop by here to see your drunken rampages through the blogs. Muchos gracias.