Know Any Snarks?

Sub-titled 'Well, Bully For You!' - this one is a kind of prep for having to write some seriously nasty bad guys into the upcoming books of the SONG series.

So we're looking to put together a collection of short bits of Snark in order to have a wide range to choose from as the books come along.

Heaven knows there's plenty of Snark in our world; you'd think this one would be a piece of cake to write.

It isn't.

My personal definition of the word 'Snark' is *a snotty shark*, someone who is not only snotty but a ruthless predator as well, whose intent is deliberate harm to others -  perhaps to benefit the Snark in some way; perhaps just because they have a *mean streak*... either way, the effect on the one getting Snarked is about the same.

It's kind of giving sharks a bad name, because they're created to be as they are, but those powerful jaws filled with sharp teeth go along with the definition of 'Snark' ... dangerous and lethal.

History provides us with lots of prime examples of Super-Snarks, but we ourselves are not exempt. 

At any rate, if you know any Snarks, historic or otherwise, whose stories you would like to see included in this book, let me know via email vignettes.house@gmail.com or pm via @Sidhelagh (Twitter) or Google+ please do NOT contact me via any open forum ... except in the case of historic figures.

Except for historic figures, all Snarks are fictionalized - times, places, names, events mixed up every which way from Tuesday - a snark is a snark is a snark is a snark ... who did what to whom isn't exactly the point here. The point is that people can be downright snarky about everything under the sun from religion to politics to lifestyle to petty cruelties designed to embarrass or humiliate someone, to poking fun at whoever over whatever.

SOME of it is actually silly and funny as all get-out, ridiculous jokes that can and will make you laugh ... things that are only *kind of snarky* ... like old jokes that have been around forever and adapted over time. We don't really think of them as Snark, although if you happen to be the butt of one of those jokes you might think it's a lot snarkier than the one who's telling the joke and the ones who are laughing at you.

You'll have plenty of time as I doubt this book will be ready to go out until maybe Spring of 2016. So send me ideas ... I'm so used to looking for silver linings it's going to be a real change of pace for me to look for the thunder and lightning in those clouds instead of the silver linings.

Any historic 'bad guys' are fair game; send me your suggestions because I'm pretty sure I won't think of ALL of them. Everything else is liable to be changed in the fictionalizing process, rendering specifics unrecognizable. So if you're thinking to use this venue to do a little snarking of your own, good luck.

References to 'contributors' will be ONLY at your own request.

Heck, for all I know I won't be able to bring myself to even write this book. I'm hoping I will, however. We're going to need some horrendous bad guys coming up pretty soon, Characters that even I won't be able to make excuses for.