The Nice Lady Who Ships Your Schlock Turns Thirty-Five
Posted January 27th, 2008 by Howard Tayler
Today is Sandra’s birthday.
Each year on her birthday she posts a new short story she’s written. The latest one can be found here, and it’s about a muse in the shower.
I may be the inspiration for this, at least in part, because so many of my own muses seem to be plumbing-related, but the story is definitely all hers.
On a related note, words (especially those composed in a hurry before Church on a Sunday morning) cannot express the extent of my appreciation for this woman. Rest assured, without Sandra there would be no Schlock Mercenary, let alone books, posters, shirts, or other merchandise. She doesn’t just ship this stuff. She enables it.
I’m not sure whether I should give her credit for inspiring it or not… after all, it’s a story about some extremely disfunctional people who mean well, but who perform heroically-scaled acts of violence for money. That’s hardly the sort of thing you want to say was “inspired by the love of my life, my wife, and the mother of my children (who yes, are all the same person, even for Mormons.)”
Happy Birthday, Sandra!
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January 27th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Happy birthday, Sandra! We Schlock fans thank you for enabling this particular addiction of ours.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Happy birthday!
January 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Happy Birthday! and Thank you for being an ‘enabler’. You share a birthday with another mother on a website I follow (http://www.caringbridge.org/in/matthewk/)
January 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Happy birthday, Sandra!
January 27th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Happy birthday Sandra! Oh, please don’t kill Howard for posting your age on the Intarwub-we need our daily Schlock fix…;)
January 27th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Happy birthday!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
FINALLY, Theo and Bunni get hitched. Dude, this is addicting!
Tell Sandra, Happy Birthday! Now she is as old as I am. Suddenly my life’s work seems small and petty.
Be cool man!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Hey Sandra! Happy Birthday! I remember 35: it was a good year for me, I hope it’ll be a good year for you too.
Hey, I read your story. That’s a good story (and I’m a fussy reader).
January 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Happy Birthday, Sandra.
Although, the story I was thinking of when I read Sandra’s tale was “Big Haunted Battleship.” I’m pretty sure that wasn’t where she was going with that, but my brain works in an unpredictable fashion.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
So.. If Sandra is an ‘enabler’, that makes Howard a ‘pusher’, right?
The first taste is free?
January 27th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Where he gets you, Bookworm, is the dead tree editions…
*taps a vein for effect*
Happy almost belated birthday, Sandra. You’re a class act, and just an all around amazing person.
Thanks for letting your husband tell us violent and side-splitting stories. It’s mighty cool of you.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I’ve got a science fiction story in the works, where the main characters discover a huge flagship dreadnought pretty much NIB that got “lost” durring the fall of galactic civilization 1000 years prior. essentially the ship would be like somewhere between the PDCL and a battleplate in a universe where the serial peacemaker would be pretty darned impressive.
the point is, I named their ship after a friend of mine, the “Mara Elizabeth” which rough translation equals “Bitter Gift from God” and when I get her drawn out, the ship’s AI will even look a fair bit like her.
she wasn’t entirely sure how to take having a several kilometer long warship named after her.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Also a merry happy birthday from me, Sandra!
Schlock Mercenary is a great comic to me, and as I read from the comments in the tub of happiness, you also like it very much, but still it’s a great deed to package it (and to stand having a husband who surely sometimes dives into his passion at odd times :) ).
Thank you for enabling Howard to share this joy with us (and many thanks for your input into it, too!)
January 28th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Happy Birthday, Sandra! Many happy returns, and may you bury us all, or something to that effect!
January 28th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Thank you Sandra, and happy birthday!
January 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Happy Birthday, Sandra!
January 28th, 2008 at 9:43 am
My wife’s name is Kayla. Makes it a little fun reading the story. :) Perhaps I should check the shower…
January 28th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
“inspired by the love of my life, my wife, and the mother of my children (who yes, are all the same person, even for Mormons.)”
Now THAT’s funny, I don’t care who you are….
(sorry about a Larry quote, but that just killed me!)
January 29th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Happy birf day to euw!
January 31st, 2008 at 1:39 am
“Jolly Bornday”. (Belated.)
(Look it up. :) )