As it turns out we have a title that we have to preface with “pardon my language, but I wrote a book…” We thought we had a strong word in our title perhaps even a powerful word, but mostly…we thought we had a funny word. Pretty much if you tag our word we can’t say onto anything it becomes a punch line. We can’t tell you what that word is though for goodness sake because someone, somewhere on the continental world might be having a bad hair day and get miffed by what we say and then all H will break out.
So, here’s the deal…we have this certain word in the title of our book but you will have to come to our website to see it since we dasn’t say it here. The title of this book, published by Atria a division of Simon and Schuster, has a word that starts with an A. It’s the A word. Have you noticed we now have words that we have to speak of in code? Life is becoming EXACTLY like a Harry Potter story speaking of He Who Must Not Be Named. This concerns us. We think he should be named whoever he is. Lord Voldermort or not, he’s a big bully and we shouldn’t have to put up with it. Freedom of speech, George Washington, Ben Franklin and Paul Revere for god sakes. Hrmph.
On various shows – including INTERNET radio we’ve had to promote our book without actually mentioning the title. How’s this? “We wrote a book called Embracing Your Big Fat A word which another word for butt which is actually a donkey.” We’d like to see the face of the trainee at the information desk at Barnes and Noble when somebody comes in asking for that title. We have a B FAB society that is beginning to form but we can’t actually tell you what it stands for because it has that dastardly, dangerous A word in it. D word, D word, double D word.
Now, it’s clearly not against FCC rules to say this insidious word that apparently has a corrosive effect on anyone hearing it. On Two and a Half Men, for example, they spout the dire, dangerous A word on almost every episode. I guess prime time decent is different than Today Show decent (one of the outlets we horrified with our title WHICH MUST NOT BE NAMED.) So we don’t want any S and we D word well won’t be using any F wording language that will gum up our efforts.
How on earth can a word as non offensive as A word become demonized? And more importantly when did we have to be guarded in our languaging so as not to cross some new social boundary that so far isn’t even consistent. Whew! You’re S ing us. (Scaring.) At what point did we, as a society, collectively return to kindergarten? We’re just askin’…cuz we didn’t notice it happening. Did we miss something – like possibly an alien takeover of the world we grew up with and no one is even noticing it? Or are a lot of you out there already Aliens? Oh this is getting alarming. We made you mad enough by using the A word. If we finger you as aliens we’ll probably be goners.
Embracing Your BFA. That’s close to the title. Just come to our website and see the book cover. Download a free chapter. Have fun. Just be very careful of the strange, and secretly powerful…
A word!
Author Resource:-
Laura Banks and Janette Barber are the bestselling authors of Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (Atria). They write about positive body-image, weight-acceptance, self-esteem with humor. It's time to love your BFA (Big Fat Ass). Janette is a 6 time Emmy-Award winning producer/writer and Laura is a columnist at http://Tarot.com. http://www.embracingyourbigfatass.com.
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