am i human yet?

I was given a long author questionnaire to fill in by my publicist, about me and my life and book and stuff to be used with journos and book shops and wotnot. I’m a bit strange in that I rather enjoy filling in questionnaires, and all was well until I came to this question:

Please summarise the purpose and contents of your book (do not be modest).

The purpose of my book, I thought? Er, to be bought and read? To be enjoyed? To be used as a door stop? To be shredded and used as hamster bedding? Um…

The contents, I supposed, are words. Lots of words. Put together to form sentences which make a, um, story. Hopefully the story and its words will make some sort of sense and elicit some positive emotions and be enjoyed, rather than make people want to bang their heads against the wall in anger at having spend their hard-earned cash on it.

And I noticed that I shouldn’t be modest while I was about describing the contents and purpose of my book. So, let’s see..wait. What? Was I meant to be filling in this questionnaire while sitting in my window wearing only my underwear?

Hmm, I thought. Completing this questionnaire is going to take me longer than I anticipated..

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