1 [Report This]Date: August 25, 2021 06:33 am Title: Chapter 1
This is REALLY clever - wish it had been finished!
Date: February 16, 2012 08:52 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh yes, looking for chapter 4 - and more. This is really fun to read!
Date: December 23, 2011 11:32 pm Title: Chapter 3
Still loving this fluffy confection! I hope you have a lot more of these little chapters in mind.
9 [Report This]Date: December 23, 2011 07:13 pm Title: Chapter 3
HA!
Very well played, Lab. Very well played, indeed. A nice 4th Night present, this. Looking forward to Chapter 4 and more...
Date: November 29, 2011 09:04 am Title: Chapter 1
I'm glad to see you've decided to continue this story, and eagerly await Memo 3.
The memo format is a nice twist, and not without precedent: Samuel Richardson more or less introduced the novel format to the English language in 1740 with a book written entirely as letters.
The title? "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded."
(I remember reading it in a collegiate English class, but I can't say anything good about the plot. To our 20th and 21st Century sensibilities, it's veeeery creepy.)
Author's Response: Thanks for all the recent and kind reviews!
Northsider, I actually used the "memo format" for two reasons; first, I write a lot of memos in my job, so this was very natural to me. Second, I was emulating a book I loved from the 1970's, "A Woman of Independent Means", which was written as a series of letters.
Callisto, I spelled Jim's name differently in two places since I can see a busy executive doing that quite easily (happens to me all the time).
10 [Report This]Date: November 28, 2011 01:02 am Title: Chapter 1
Ha! This made me laugh. So creative - I love it.
10 [Report This]Date: November 27, 2011 02:55 pm Title: Chapter 2
This is so cool! I laughed at the receptionist screaming doomsday on the phone! It says Erin is insane without saying it lol Im enjoying this a lot and can't wait to see where you take it!
Date: November 27, 2011 11:37 am Title: Chapter 1
Ha, this is cute. :) I love how he keeps calling him "Halbert." But at the beginning in the memo it does say Halpert. ;)
10 [Report This]Date: November 02, 2011 10:38 am Title: Chapter 1
I really enjoyed this. It was a very new and unique way of writing and very very well done! I'm wondering, even with the self publishing and such, wouldn't there be SOME way, perhaps some type of mark on the book that would give away exactly at least who bound the book or something. This would be such a wonderful opportunity, if these people were able to find SOME clue as to how to track the author down, for Jim to start his career in journalism. I really hope you will either decide to add to this story or perhaps write a companion piece. It's just such a neat thought and I'd truly love to see it continued!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us!
Date: October 30, 2011 08:15 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh joy, a fresh fanfic idea! Love it. I wish you would continue as well, but even if you are not inclined to, this was very well done.
9 [Report This]Date: October 28, 2011 06:46 pm Title: Chapter 1
Very cute. That would be so funny if someone saw his book and saw just how talented and funny he was :)
10 [Report This]Date: October 28, 2011 12:08 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh, I agree!! You HAVE to continue with this! What a totally fresh premise!
Oh, and did Barbara Tuchman come back from the dead, or is this a granddaughter or something??
You could do so much with this. Please continue.
Author's Response: VB: Thanks very much for the encouragement and glad to see someone pick up on the Barbara Tuchman reference (are we dating ourselves?). As I said below, I am not sure about continuing this; I write non-fiction and scientific articles, so the "memo format" came easily to me. Not so sure about writing dialog, although I will think about it
9 [Report This]Date: October 28, 2011 09:38 am Title: Chapter 1
This is great! I'd hate to see it left as a one shot. There's definitely room for expansion here if you wanted to go for it.
Author's Response: Deedldee:
Thanks-your comments are really appreciated. Not sure about continuing, but will think about it.
8 [Report This]Date: October 27, 2011 02:37 pm Title: Chapter 1
HA! A great late afternoon (here in the CDT, that is) laugh. Seems to me, however, that you've got a good start to something more than this, as it were. Please continue.
P.S. Regarding the bonus point: I know what's right, but I'm not going to say...
Author's Response: Thanks very much for the review! I had not really thought of this as more than a one-shot, but will think about how that could work.