Kim ScheinbergMastodon writers of all stripes, please help! My husband JK is so much more than I deserve and I fucked up our anniversary. Before I get into details, let me make clear how ridiculously lucky I am. Early in our relationship, he bought a custom stamp/ink thing and started stamping all the currency that passed through his hands. It’s the sort of goofy romantic thing you do when limerence is at its peak. And yet 27 years later he’s still at it. 1/4
Our 25th wedding anniversary is in March. I bought him a gift at auction two years ago — naming a character after him in a book by his fave author, Lee Childs. Excellent planning, right? Wrong. Two LC books have since been released and, publishing being what it is, his name won’t appear until the NEXT book in October. Fuck! More recently, I won the naming rights to a character in an upcoming @pluralistic book. Obviously that won’t be out by March either. 2/4
I’ve given up on a timely present. Instead I’ve decided to turn my husband into a literary Forrest Gump of sorts, a minor character who shows up in books across multiple genres. Crime, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, romance, poetry, horror, kidlit, short story, how-to, cookbook, software license agreement, you name it. If a playwright or screenwriter for film/TV wants in, I’m good with that too. I have a reasonable budget for this, so here’s my ask: 3/4
If you have an upcoming: novel, poetry collection, tech manual, screenplay, or anything else* that has room for a character named JK Scheinberg, let’s pick a charity and I’ll make a donation in your name. Amount’s negotiable $50-$5000 (Stephen King are you here yet?) and I expect to do this ~20 times. If SK, @catvalente, and @EdSolomon all want in, maybe only ten times. Comment or slide into my DMs and I’ll be in touch. Thanks. 4/4
*no True Crime, please.
flourhappyI'm going to be self publishing a cookbook on bread
@flourhappy
Cookbooks are terrific! JK can be very salty. Also, it was literally in our wedding vows, "There's always room for bread."
Cookbooks are terrific! JK can be very salty. Also, it was literally in our wedding vows, "There's always room for bread."
Kim
lmfao
Most recipes have people attached to them
To give you an idea?
I have a flatbread for my son in law #leftiejew called "Eat the Rich "
In the process of hiring an editor
Lee
Doing my #genealogy and found out SAME Son in law is now my 3rd cousin 2x removed