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Yeah, I was jazzed when John told me that I had been quoted for my review of the Cloud Roads on the Night Shade Books blog. To be quoted in print, though, is even better, John.
It sure is. Its’ happened to me before – the best ever was being in the MMPB version of THE WARDED MAN by Peter Brett. But hopefully even that may one day be superseded.
Congrats on your own blurbage!
I may have peaked early in that regard–a comment I mailed in to Infocom years and years ago regarding the Zork games wound up on the inside cover flap of Zork III. At least, I figured it was me because it was my first name, age, and city.
“Excellent! Makes me use my mind. Very Challenging”
“Paul, 14, Staten Island, NY”
Maybe with reviews for the functional nerds and sf signal, I’ll get a comment in print one of these years…although I’ve long said my real dream is to get tuckerized into a book.
that’s cool that at 14 you got a mention. What’s tuckerized? I’ve seen the term before but never bothered to look it up.
Tuckerized is when you appear as a character in a novel or story. It can be your name, a variation on same, or a character with a different name who clearly is a variation on yourself.
For example, if I either had a character named Paytrick of the county of Hester in a secondary world fantasy novel, or if I had a character in a near future SF novel who loved wearing hats, argued about barbeque, and conducted many podcasts, either of those could be tuckerizations of our mutual acquaintance Patrick Hester.
I bidded high to try and do so, but ultimately failed to win a tuckerization in the third Jon C Grimwood Fallen Blade novel in the Genre for Japan auction.
ah, cool. just read a story where Jim C. Hines (in his new libriomancer series) does that for Scalzi. I’ve seen it once and a while but did not know a term had been coined. Thanks!