WriteOn Joliet's Recapper Jenny placed this vampire duck at my place before I arrived WriteOn Joliet's last (as in previous, not final) in-person meeting.
I didn't even notice the duck at first - or that it was a vampire. But when I did, I missed the fangs and assumed it was a penguin, especially since it didn't quack like a duck or anything at all.
I also missed that it was for me and that I somehow actually now had a regular "place" at the table.
I just ususally headed to that very spot with the outlet (Rebekah needs both outlet and a way to communicate discreetly during meetings), and I need to a visual sweep of the room and the door. So here we are.
But just as how I missed that this duck wasn't a penguin and was, in fact, a vampire. it's just as easy to not realize (at first) that longtime newspaper carrier and BryonySeries author Edward Calkins is in fact an Irish vampire, at least in the BryonySeries.
In fact, Ed Calkins is known as Ed Calkins, Steward of Tara. And as he will tell anyone new at the meetings, he is "more of a character than an author" and that he "only exists in my imagination."
All of which aren't true.
Just as ducks can't be vampires.
Until they are.
So now that it's Halloween, Ed wants you know to five things about him:
Here are the five:
- Ed is the one and only Ed Calkins, Steward of Tara.
- Ed is very ruthless. He’ll hurt your feelings without a second thought. (Try not to be afraid).
- Newspaper delivery is important. On time. Every morning.
- Ed has many wives all over the place. But he can only sleep with the one that is his lover because of the pink machete rule (true story, ask him about that. Better yet, ask his primary wife Nancy).
- Ed is a time-traveling, dyslexic, psychotic, Irish vampire. (You might have guessed that already).
He also wants you to know how answer two questions.
One: "Are you a member of the IVA?"
Two: "Will you marry me?"
Because if Ed Calkins asks you to marry him, he might not ask again!
