Nine Out of Ten Lady Bugs Prefer Neil Gaiman! Friday, November 21, 2003 Yep, it's true...nine out of ten Lady Bugs prefer Neil Gaiman.... My house is infested with lady bugs...or, as some of your guys out there call them, lady birds. They're the little red/sometimes tan/sometimes orange beetles (and this is really just lady bug stereotyping, since one of my books says there are many more varieties...) with the black spots on their backs. They love me. They crawl on my keyboard, they read my writing as I'm working on it, one even did a little dance over a word that wasn't right, but was spelled correctly the other day while I was editing a book for Zumaya. They converge on my cd player, they crawl on my arms as I'm reading, and they have learned that, if I'm in bed, the only thing that'll encourage me to get up after dark and put them outside is if they slam themselves against the ceiling. The other night I rolled over in bed to discover two of them had decided that they wanted to share a pillow with me. And, like me, they love Neil Gaiman's writing. Whenever I do my morning "Let's go collect lady bugs and put them out the window." rounds, I can always find at least three or four happily dozing (after their night of wild partying) on my copies of American Gods and Neverwhere. At first I though that it was the fact that the Gaiman books happen to be closest to the lamp and CD player...but when I moved them (in the interest of purest scientific inquiry) they eschewed the copies of the Anne Rice books I put over there and traveled all the way across the room to the new Gaiman book section. Though to be honest, there are a few lady bugs who seem to prefer Terry Pratchett...and they seem to prefer the books where Vimes is a major charcater. I'd talk more, but there's a lady bug slapping herself against the ceiling....I guess she wants out. :) Yes, I am the Willard of the lady bug world. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 2:35 PM 0 comments

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