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I am on Goodreads a lot, as I like to keep track of what I read (I read heaps). Anyway, I stumbled across David Eddings' author bio, and the thing that struck me: this poor author (now deceased) will forever be remembered (aside from the books he and his wife wrote (she was un-credited in the beginning), as the guy who...well, read this:
"On January 26, 2007 it was reported that Eddings accidentally burned about a quarter of his office, next door to his house, along with his Excalibur sports car, and the original manuscripts for most of his novels. He was flushing the fuel tank of the car with water when he lit a piece of paper and threw into the puddle to test if it was still flammable."
This is in his author bio!!! And what's more, it's only three paragraphs long including the paragraph above. Kind of takes away all he achieved for the art, doesn't it?
If I had control over my bio once I'd passed, I'd hope nobody added anything in it like that LOL
"On January 26, 2007 it was reported that Eddings accidentally burned about a quarter of his office, next door to his house, along with his Excalibur sports car, and the original manuscripts for most of his novels. He was flushing the fuel tank of the car with water when he lit a piece of paper and threw into the puddle to test if it was still flammable."
This is in his author bio!!! And what's more, it's only three paragraphs long including the paragraph above. Kind of takes away all he achieved for the art, doesn't it?
If I had control over my bio once I'd passed, I'd hope nobody added anything in it like that LOL