My Effing Idea!!

 Well.

Seems the intrepid and wily travel writer I emailed a few weeks ago has seen the same gleaming pearls that I do. And now her terse curt reply to my email (describing my father’s potential father and background) make sense to me. I am surprised I didn’t read further into some of the things (about WW2 and the murky romance of those terrifying years) she touched on in her rather tepid travel book on Mrkopalj.  She’s been sparse with her posts on Facebook but just today I found a flurry of activity from her on the Descendants of Mrkopalj page and this post 

"Yep, missing all your happy posts! Glad you’re well. I’m in the final edits for the draft of the book that my agent and I will try to sell … I’ll keep everyone posted if we sell it and we’ve got a date you can watch for it. Thanks for asking! Exciting! It’s fiction! And a little risk-ay …. but I’m sure my bawdy Mrko crowd can handle it. : )"

She’s going to turn my story into a f*cking romance novel!! She hasn’t mentioned the time period but I WILL BET it takes place during WW2. Her writing is whiny and weak. Would I be less pissed if she were truly a good writer and could do the story justice? Maybe. But a "risk-ay" romance??? I am livid! That is the exact opposite of what I wanted to accomplish. I wanted to tell a good quality story. Not trash. Frank says I should go ahead and write the book anyway. "Jump on the bandwagon she’s begun" per say. 

Maybe it’s not what I am thinking. But she’d be stupid to miss it. There is a LARGE untapped storyline there.

F* F* F*

now what?

*sigh*

At least she’s a "real" writer.