I am officially cooler than my father

Ladies and Gentlemen – I have an announcement.

I am officially cooler than my father.

Now to you, this may not mean a lot, but to me… of boy – my dad will never live this down. You see – I grew up in a house full of treckies. Like HARD CORE treckies. Like my brother had a uniform and we never missed an episode. I may or may not have worn a uniform of my own in order to impress a boy I liked in the ‘role play’ club my dad had enrolled us in. I won’t go into it much more than that simply because that’s a look into my deep dark past that I would honestly like to pretend never happened…

Yeah…

Well, two days ago my life came full circle so to speak. You see, I got a message form the fantastic Tammy Blackwell about a post she had seen on Wil Wheatons Tumbler page. Now, if you don’t know who Wil Wheaton is – he played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek next Generation – and in a word was the only reason girls like me survived in our house full of Star Trek enthusiasts.

Many girls reading this will understand.

So, when Tammy emailed me that link and I clicked on it – there may have been a little bit of hyperventilating going on. You see Amazon in all it’s recommendation skills had recommended Soul of Flame to Wil Wheaton, and Wil – recognizing Amazon’s terrible ability to decide what people really want to read – posted it in jest. (which is awesome)

I for one thought it was funny. I mean I have gotten some of those terrible emails too. But also, isn’t it kind of awesome that Amazon recommended my book to someone… dare I say it… famous…

Gulp

It always boggles my mind that my books have stretched so far… and every time some one posts something about it – even if its to make fun of how Amazon markets stuff (because lets be honest – Amazons ‘recommended feature is shoddy at best)– I get a little more humbled about how much I have been blessed by this, and how amazing my life has become.

So thanks Wil Wheaton – you officially made me cooler than my dad – and that was something I never thought would happen.

EDITED TO ADD: For some reason after posting this I had a few fans who went after Wil telling him the book is good and he shouldn’t bad mouth it. GUYS!! Please – #1 – I think this is funny that Amazon even recommended the book to him the first place (even I can tell it wouldn’t be in his genre)! #2 – Not every book is for every person – #3 – BE NICE!!

I can’t stress this enough. NEVER post something online that you wouldn’t say to someone’s face. I don’t care if you are in a bad mood. I don’t care if its your favorite book in existence… it wasn’t for him (and if you follow him you would know this) besides the post was in jest… I just can’t shake my head enough at this.

I guess… since I am adding stuff… I should probably add this too… late last year when I was in my depressive low and couldn’t write anything to save my life was first when Wil Wheaton came back on my radar – he wrote a blog post about how he felt in adequate, and about depression, and given where I was at the time that post really helped me. So in some ways – without Wil Wheaton – you wouldn’t even have Soul of Flame…

See…. Its all come full circle…

 

Additional note: Finding all these Star Trek gifs was A LOT harder than it should have been – in fact I only found ONE with Wesley Crusher in it and I have been told this post needs it – – so here you go – –