I love this parody already!

Lisa Fulton: Lisa Fulton’s best-selling debut novel The Balance of Justice shook the foundations of crime fiction on release twenty-one years ago with its white-hot rage and brutal truth, and was long-listed for the Justice in Fiction Award, Women’s Prize, 2003. She is currently working on her long-awaited second novel.

Wait, what? Why the 21-year gap? What happened in the interim?

S.F. Majors: S.F. Majors’s gripping thrillers have captivated the world with their psychological complexity and hair-raising twists and turns. Her books include the New York Times bestselling Twists and Turns

OMG …

Wolfgang: Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize 2012; short-listed, Bookseller’s Favorites Award 2012; short-listed, Goodreads Reader’s Choice, Literary Fiction, 2012; short-listed, Best of Amazon, 2012; [font becomes smaller] short-listed, Justice in Fiction Award, Women’s Prize (special exemption granted), 2003 …

All these fictional author blurbs are from Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone on This Train is a Suspect.

8 thoughts on “I love this parody already!

    1. Jennifer Mugrage's avatar Jennifer Mugrage

      I DuckDuckGo’D DDG and boy, are there a lot of things that acronym stands for!

      She has her reasons for the long gap, and those become important to the plot.

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        1. Jennifer Mugrage's avatar Jennifer Mugrage

          *blushes* I just realized it means DuckDuckGo. I even used it in my reply.

          Here are some other things it stands for:
          Guided Missile Destroyer
          Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft
          Dodge City (Amtrack Train code)
          Deputy Director General
          Drop Dead Gorgeous

          You see my dilemma.

          Anyway. No, this lady is actually a fictional author, within a story about authors who get involved in a real-life murder mystery on a train.

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          1. A lot of people don’t know DDG and Duck Duck Go. The owners need to make it a thing better than it currently is. The only one in your list I knew was Guided Missile Destroyer since that’s my daughter’s world.

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    1. Jennifer Mugrage's avatar Jennifer Mugrage

      They introduce the event, which is a cross-Australia train ride cum mystery writers’ and fans’ conference. Then, naturally, there is a murder. On a train. Full of experts on fictional murder. The murder and investigation very self-consciously follow the typical murder mystery script.

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