I saw this one at Classical Bookworm and Slow but Steady. Go to Amazon.com, type in your own name in the search box, and choose the two best covers from the results.
Here’s book cover number one, oh ha ha:
Amazon’s review: “The nameless evil that haunts a legendary punk rock outfit… a Gothic Horror novel about severe mental distress and punk rock. Semi-autobiographical novel from the Rudimentary Peni leading light plunging into the worlds of madness, suicide and anarchist punk. And it’s a good read.” Oh, I’m gonna read this one fer sher.
Here’s book cover number two, giggle giggle:
Amazon says: “For the increasing base of 20- and 30-somethings (particularly of the single variety) who have forged their circle of friends into substitute families, created social events of television series finales and count fictional characters among their role models, here is the perfect book on spirituality.” Bwahahaha — oh, wait a second — count fictional characters among their role models? Uh, guilty as charged. :)
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Huh. That’s freaky. Must try it.
Doh. I typed my full name in, and found various citations from bibliographies of academic works, and a couple books where I got author credit for contributing a chapter. The first name covers were less exciting, and all children’s books (Sandra Boynton) and bad romances (Sandra Brown).
This time-sucking Internet trick has endless possibilities. I entered my own name (turns out there was a writer with the same name in the 1830s who profiled the City of Charleston, S.C. and is cited in a few books), entered a colleague’s name and was surprised to find out that he is a published author.
When I slightly varied my entry for my own name, I discovered that the first mayor of the California desert town where Grandpa had his “ranch” shared our last name. Maybe that explains why Grandpa had land in that little town in the middle of nowhere. Something to research when the next family genealogist gets to work on discovering new connections to the past. . . .