Re: writers rant

On 8/7/2014 4:48 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 8/7/14 2:48 PM, Jette Goldie wrote:
>> On 07/08/2014 19:10, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>>>
>>> This detective, and the young cub cop, and an elderly woman who knew
>>> the "mysterious stranger" (female) character way back when, can none
>>> of them figure out why, in the course of fifty years, a woman might
>>> change her surname! (Well, I might be maligning the elderly woman:
>>> she just says, "A different name? How odd!"). Personally, I don't find
>>> it either odd or inexplicable. The usual reason why women have
>>> different surnames than those they had fifty years ago seems fairly
>>> obvious to me! Of course, one of my cousins changed her surname five
>>> times in fifty years. I myself wear a different name than I had at
>>> nineteen.
>>>
>>
>> Under Scots law women do not lose their surname on marriage.
>
> US women don't have to, either, but most of us choose to -- those who
> bother getting married, anyway, which seems to be fewer every year. It
> still bothers me that _none_ of the three who mentioned "Why would she
> change her name?" even considered that she _might_ have gotten married
> and done so. Turned out that the different name was a stage name.
>

Actually, most of the women I know do NOT change their names, especially
if they've already got a decent career going. Or they hyphenate.

In my personal case it was a choice between Kobylarz and Tait. Which to
me isn't a choice. :-)

> But what really did bug me most was the "Piled higher and Deeper" of all
> those characteristics of the "Cozy Cat Mystery". I still can't think of
> even one that she missed.
>

You never answered if this was a self-pubbed book or not. I'm really
curious!


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Jen
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