Me: "I've seen a picture of Major Caudill! He looked just like Marko!"(Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you google 'Major Caudill picture', you get the linked shot. Maj. Caudill is gradually fleshing out into a real artificial person on the internet. It's kinda creepy. Marko should write a Stephen King-meets-William Gibson techno-horror story where a plagiarized author is stalked and pod-peopled by his virtual doppelganger...)
Aren't writers supposed to make up their own nom-de-plume? Acquiring one by having it stalk you on the internet is kind of creepy. The trick may be finding a way to keep it on a leash.
ReplyDeleteI'm still hoping Larry Correia eventually has Maj. Caudill get eaten by a something in an upcoming "Monster Hunter: Adjective" book.
ReplyDeleteActually I wish Marko would hurry up with his sequel, 'cause the first book was GOOD.
ReplyDeleteIsh: Ok, that would be hilarious. :D
ReplyDeleteMarko should just adopt "Major Caudill" as a pseudonym, and start writing fuzzy pink children's books under that name.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming Marko didn't start the MAJ Caudill name? I've never heard either way.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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ReplyDeleteTed N:
ReplyDeleteSome lame plagiarist stole Marko's "Why guns are civilization" essay, removed the paragraph about gays needing guns for self-defense, and then distributed the essay on private email lists under the pseudonym MAJ. Caudill.
So far Marko has been unable to stamp MAJ Caudill out. He keeps resurfacing as some ignorant person copypastas the original plagiarism.
Oooh, new twist on my original idea. As soon as my copy of the Monster Hunter RPG is in my hands, I'm having Maj. Caudill cast as the first story arc's Big Bad Evil Guy... a doppelgänger that's replaced a New England scifi author / Monster Hunter, Int'l branch head in his bid to Take Over The World!
ReplyDeleteActually, the major used to be a stand-up, guy, but he was never the same after Screaming Fist....
ReplyDeleteI'm just interested if he would deal with his doppleganger via reason or force...
ReplyDeleteSorry, Tam.
ReplyDeleteI think that one's already taken. Sounds like a Jasper Fforde "Thursday" novel that my lady just finished reading.
Thanks Kristoper. I hadn't noticed the paragraph missing from the Maj Caudill version.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see it pop up on FB, I link back to Marko's original in the comments. I can't be sure if it's helping or not, but I've gotta try.
Now I add a plug for his book too.