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This is from a personal email message received by the author: The book arrived from Eyeball last Friday. I didn't know what I was in for. And I haven't even started it yet. Dinner table conversation from last Friday: What's in the package? sez the Mrs. Book, sez I. What book? sez the Mrs. Ciphers, sez I, unwrapping the book. Wife takes a look at the photo on the front cover and goes white. Demeaning to women, she sez. I didn't take the picture, sez I, it comes with the book. What's the book about? she sez. Dunno, haven't read it yet, I sez. Can't be very good with a picture like that on it, she grumblez. Can't tell a book by its cover, I explain. With a cover like that I sure as hell can, she sez. What about the back cover, sez I, flipping it over. <response deleted to spare the author anguish> Where'd you find this guy? she continues Know him from his other writing and from the internet, sez I Well, keep the goddam thing away from the kidz, I don't want them to see it, she sez. Conversation over. Glad I didn't show her the interior photo of the snake lady, it would have been all over for me. |