Brass Monkey Award!

Hi folks,

Well, it's official. I've finally arrived on the literary landscape. I've just won the prestigious literary award, the virtual Brass Monkey Award, given out after months, weeks, days, minutes seconds of serious some deliberation by the award-winning committee of a dozen, several one, namely, the ubiquitous Anonymous 9, who also goes by the street name of Elaine Ash down at her neighborhood Starbucks and the Bucket O Blood Yuppie Bar and Juice Emporium where she hangs out frequents when appearing in public for her adoring fans.

Author Elaine Ash, A.K.A. "Anonymous 9" 

(Caught smoking a lipstick... by a People Magazine photog...)

It seems Ms. Anonymous wrote a really cool book that I reviewed for Amazon and Goodreads and she liked (I think) the review and that’s the story of how I came to win this fantastic award from her.

Here’s my review:

HARD BITE by Anonymous 9

5 stars

Absolutely loved this book. I’m a sucker for vigilante tales and this is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. Plus, it had the bonus of the “crusader” employing a helper monkey to assist him. Unless there’s a genre featuring helper monkeys that everyone else knows about and I don’t, this is only the second novel I’ve ever read that featured one. The first was John Vernon’s magic realism novel, Peter Doyle in which the protagonist, on the hunt for Napoleon’s penis, owned a monkey he’d fashioned from body parts and when he was low on cash, would help fill the coffers by leaping on the backs of sailors, slash their throats and take their purses. Anonymous 9’s use of a helper monkey in Hard Bite, while different, was equally delightful and original. Just wondering how the folks at PETA liked it… Since I eat meat as often as I can, I’m without their prohibitions concerning critters and I give it a 5 out of 5 stars… Just a darned good read!

Here is what Anon 9 had to say in her blog post announcing my award:

Anonymous-9’s Brass Monkey Award goes to LES EDGERTON for publishing a review of HARD BITE on Amazon and getting in a lengthy reference to Napoleon’s penis. Is there any reference to Napoleon in HARD BITE? No! Is there anything about Napoleon’s penis in HARD BITE? No! No! So for sheer ingenuity and creativity in review writing which only the great LES EDGERTON could manage, the virtual Brass Monkey Award goes to him. (He really liked HARD BITE, by the way.)

Les is the respected and lauded author of THE BITCH, among other novels.

I’m presently sitting by my phone, awaiting the call from Stockholm… Eat your heart out, Stevie King!

And my virtual Brass Monkey Award is sitting proudly on my (virtual) mantel, surrounded on each side by my Fatboy posters of Cheryl Tiegs and Pee Wee Herman. (Don’t ask—it’s a long story…)

Blue skies,

Les

P.S. Check out her book! It’s really, really good!

Oh, and if you're interested in the other novel in the helper monkey genre, check out Peter Doyle...

Here's the actor who will play the monkey in the movie...

Word is, this guy's dad used to live with Michael Jackson... He's got show biz in his blood!