I’m winding up, because here’s the pitch! (I KNOW. A sports reference. What a day!)
Buy me! I’m 99 cents! I’ll only mess with your head a little!
So Aunty Ida is on sale today! For a limited time, you too can have the hands of Aunty Ida waaayy up in your brain for just $0.99!* I swear that’s much more appealing than it sounds!
Here’s the deal. Margaret is a sitting judge who has a little…uh…incident while hearing a trial. Well, that trial happened to be televised. Enter Aunty Ida, who promises to help Margaret fix her problems. And she has the mind-altering machines to do it.
Margaret knows she doesn’t have any problems. She was set up, and she’s going to prove it.
*(Replacement brains and/or replacement brain parts not included).
So if you’ve been curious about this strange figure I keep talking about as though she is real (and she’s sure you can’t prove that she’s not) now’s a good time to check her out. Just, you know, be careful. She’s got a lot of ideas and she’s not afraid to use them.
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Aunty Ida is my most insistent character, the one who probably has to exist in another dimension, finding a way to communicate with me here. Her band of compatriots also feel pretty real, at least to some universe. And I wrote earlier of Margaret’s truculence while writing this book.
For the writers, who is your character like Aunty Ida? The one who demands attention or pushes the story?
And the readers, which fictional characters feel to you like they must live somewhere in one galaxy or another?
Big news! Aunty Ida’s Full-Service Mental Institution (by Invitation Only) is $0.99 for a limited time!
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A Bit to Read 
Aunty Ida got into my head over two years ago, now and look what happened.
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It’s true. Once she gets in there, she doesn’t really like to leave. Kind of like a brain virus.
Who doesn’t want to buy a brain virus for $0.99?!
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Who doesn’t love a sale?
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Hopefully no one!! I bet Choppy would like it. She looks like a reader.
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Much more of a reader than the cat. Schooner thinks books are for eating/tearing up.
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A veritable smorgasbord! I’ll be back.
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Ooh! I like the sound of that 🙂 Please do, and thanks for the visit!
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Thanks for the link 🙂
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🙂
Joy @ The Joyous Living
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Something like this always makes me shift of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop. “But [expletive] it was 99 cents!”
That’s just good value!
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Oh, it’s definitely good value at 99 cents! You may not end up with the same brain as when you started, but eh, nothing’s perfect.
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Thanks for swinging by my A-Z Challenge post 😉 Haven’t heard of this series before. So intrigued to read it now =) enjoy the rest of the challenge!
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Hope you enjoy it if you check it out! Thanks for returning the visit, and you too with the challenge!
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No worries! 😉 looking forward to reading more of your blog and thanks! =) can’t believe it’s almost half way over!
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Aren’t we more than?! How long is April??!! (I just had a vision of a sudden addition of ten more letters to the alphabet).
I’m looking forward to seeing more of yours as well 🙂
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Hehehe we sure are! April will soon come to an end 😉 only seems longer as I have 3 backlog posts on the way! Hahaha a more longer alphabet 😉 thanks!
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Sweet! We got it!
and Thanks.
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Yay! I hope you enjoy it. Just watch that Aunty Ida. She likes to perform brainular modifications.
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