Quacking Alone

The book that, to date, I had the most fun writing, Griffin’s Law, is being published as I type. It’s out there on Smashwords and almost out there (it should be through the publishing grinder shortly ) at Kindle. It’ll take a couple of weeks or so for us to get the paperback version out.

The Amazon process for Kindle puts the book out in stages. As I write this post, Griffin’s Law is up on the Amazon site, complete with hubby’s fantabulous cover image and, by the Great Green Toad Frog, with a buy button. The cover blurb hasn’t fed up yet. And this blog post is partly about Griffin’s and why it was my most fun book to write, and partly about that cover blurb.

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I’m a huge fan of Grey’s Anatomy and of its creator, Shonda Sunshine (Rhimes). And Grey’s Anatomy inspired this book. One night, as I watched the folks at Seattle Grace Hospital, I asked myself one question – What if Grey’s Anatomy took place in a law school? 

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The not-so-jolly fat man here again, peeps. Apparently Mary Anne had wanted a serious post, even though she knows I hate serious. I think everything should be fun and funny, especially for an audience. I’m not so different from my wife in that aspect; she’s trying to provide her readers an escape from their humdrum everyday lives through fantastic love stories, where I try to lighten everyone’s mood via humor.

But she wants serious, so now I’ll take you there.

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Hello everyone, it’s Mary Anne’s husband, Angry Old Fat Man (AOFM for short).

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you probably know that I, AOFM, create all of Mary Anne’s book covers for her. She expressed her desire to let you, the reader, have a peek behind the scenes of the creative process I go through to make nebulous clouds of thought into solid color images on thick cover stock paper.

So come along with me while I indulge her.

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This week’s Grey’s Anatomy was the first after a wee hiatus and it gives a glimpse into where the show is headed down the trail and possibly to the end of its run.  Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) hinted this week that the show would last about 2 more years.  If that’s the case, it looks like Shonda Sunshine is heading it back to where it started.  After all, Derek, on the heels of learning that his wife (Addison) had slept with his best friend (Mark), finally accepted Richard’s invitation to come to his hospital where Derek would be groomed as Chief.  Except, after Derek got there, Richard’s life and marriage disintegrated leaving Richard nothing to hold onto except the power for which he’d traded everything else. 

After years of waiting in the wings, Derek staged a coup and got the job he’d come West to take.   Richard’s fall off the wagon might have justified Derek’s sneak attack if only McDreamy hadn’t traded on inside information from the love of his life to pull it off.  In this episode, Richard sat in a conference room for hours, torn between whether to sign one document that gave up his job and medical license permanently, and another that committed to going into rehab and coming out to resume power.  What had Richard torn was the rehab part – he didn’t want to give up drinking b/c it was all he had left.  Finally though, Richard signed and headed to rehab and Derek got ready to take charge.  By the time Richard returns, there may be a battle, but I bet Derek will have learned that power ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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