Well, we’re into NaNoWriMo so I thought we’d bring up a classic.
“Dear sir, or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, would you take a look? It’s based on a novel by a man named Lear and I need a job, so I want to be a paperback writer.”
I looked up the lyrics to confirm I remembered them correctly and had one or two wrong, but then the song was a Beatles hit in 1966, fifty years ago, when I was ten.
To all you writers out there and in here, here is ‘Paperback Writer’. It’s not a great recording but it’ll do.
Michael Seidel, writer 