Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I’ve often spoken of how, once people meet and get to know me, Shakespeare is in their lives forever. Months or years later, regardless of how often I might see them, I’ve now got that connection. So I’ll get Facebook messages or texts with links to something Shakespeare and a note, “Saw this and thought of you!”
So there’s this friend of mine who I worked with for five years, who actually went off to pursue his dream project and started a school (you don’t hear that too often). He texts me yesterday to let me know that one of his humanities professors has a Shakespeare book (well, chapters in a collection) coming out.
Given the guy’s name I went googling. I saw his bio for the school, but I also saw an Amazon author page. Click. Blah blah blah, thirty year veteran of stage and screen, award winning script writer … seems like this could be the guy.
He’s also got a couple dozen ebooks, the first of which is described as “an erotic fantasy, two souls in one body.”
Well that’s different, I think. But hey, it’s not my business. What people do on their own time doesn’t bother me. I figure they did their due diligence, they know what their employees are up to, they made the same call.
“I think I found his author page on Amazon,” I text my friend. “Little surprised to see the erotic fantasy pop up, I have to say.”
“HOLY SH*T!” comes the response.
Apparently not 🙂
“Maybe I have the wrong guy,” I reply. “Australian fellow?”
My friend confirms, with great relief, that I’ve got the wrong guy. But for a minute there I thought Shakespeare was about to get some dude fired who I never even met!