Golden Marmot Awards #7

Golden Marmot Award winners on Twitter are cheeky, wise, witty or profound (sometimes all at the same time), always in 140 characters or less. Warning: Some tweets may not be worksafe or appropriate for viewing by children.

Congrats to the recent winners:

@biscuitman18: Sharing your name with a character in a children’s book sucks SO HARD. #longbelatedthoughts

@johannaharness: Okay, double verbs: fear me. I have a delete key and I’m not afraid to use it. #amwriting

@kathleenfoucart Um, why are all the YA authors baking at the same time? Are deadlines looming?

@DanielLiterary: Speaking of unnecessary quotation marks, received a query from someone who is writing a “book.” Please kill me.

@NathanBransford My pet peeve about misuse of the word “blog” is metastasizing into something that could possibly destroy Tokyo.

@mooselicious: Champagne loosens my usual firm grip on punctuation and merrily leads me into the verdant field of injudicious caps. Apparently.

@msagara: Clarinet practice doesn’t always go well with novel-writing. I am, however, reminding myself that I love my son.

@LitEpiphany: An author is trying to query me into submission. We’re up to query 31 of the same book.

@justinemusk: Bookstores have a way of calming and centering me. They help me refocus. It’s like literary zen.

@kaerfel: Got some important writing stuff done, am getting old car hauled away, and am making big knitting plans. Life is good today.

@katert0tI: really like this submission and can’t stop reading, but I’m paranoid no one else at edit meeting will. I hate Edit Insecurity.

@justin_pdx: Getting followed back by @APStylebook has made a crummy day stellar. I just pray this tweet is grammatically correct.

@sztownsend81: Why is it that the guys I fall for are always fictional?

@seananmcguire: I have just completed an author interview in which I was able to use the phrase “sunshine and happy zombie puppies.” Life is good.

@ThtsWhatSheReadLittle: do the assistants know, that screeching of packing tape turns me into a homicidal lunatic. Do one more box. I dare you.

@jimsissy: Just realized I’ve been cooking all day NOT TO EDIT. Guilt free slacking. I’m in big trouble with me.

@ashaberry: Also today I will arrange words in interesting order and then go buy underwear. Or maybe just the words, I hate buying underwear.

@PattyJMurphy: Doing some cartwheels and finishing a HAPPY MEAL with one of my editorial advisors. She’ll be nine in September.

@libbabray: Broke into RH publisher Chip Gibson’s office yesterday and ate his Pixie Stix, which is like crack in granulated sugar form, it turns out.

@thestorysiren: is it bad i have to look at goodreads to know if i own a book or not?

@aecbks: You’re never too famous to use proper grammar. http://ow.ly/i1iD

@harryhunsicker: Rearranging bookshelves today. Note to self: Quit buying books. Note back to self: Who are you and why are you sending me notes?

If you’d like to nominate someone’s Tweet for a Golden Marmot, please RT with a #inky hashtag (#marmot is already being used) or e-mail marmot [at] inkygirl [dot] com (put “nomination” in the subject header). If e-mailing, please include the exact URL of the tweet (click on the time/date posted in the bottom left corner of the tweet), or I won’t be able to consider your nomination. If the person you nominated wins a Golden Marmot, then you get a side credit (“Nominated by xxxx”), so please do include your Twitter name as well.

The criteria for winning a Golden Marmot Award are frustratingly vague and entirely subjective, but often include writing or publishing, cleverness, humor or wisdom. Must be original (e.g. no fair using a famous quote). Award schedule is sporadic.