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[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

A man sits at the bar, his dress shoes tucked under the beam of the stool he's currently perched upon. He's got a hell of a shiner and half a mind to believe the rumours now that he's got proof: lefties can throw a punch, and then can do it hard. His black bow tie is undone, lying limply around his neck. He's in deep discussion with Bar:

"No, that thing Hemingway said about drinking. You know what I'm talking about. 'Something something sober, you'd know better if you kept your mouth shut.' Come on, you've gotta' know this --" he leans forward, half imploring.

Bar produces a dry vodka martini and a copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Rick Castle takes a sip of the martini and uses the Bartlett's as a coaster. "Succinct," he says, "Hemingway would have liked that."

[ short, declarative tiny tag : rick castle ; kate beckett ]

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[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

"Ah," he says, suddenly understanding, "it's all about good press. Or bad press. Which is good press, although I've never exactly been sure how that's possible." He shrugs.

"I'm a writer. The minute the reviews start to tank, my publisher sends the book off to one of those hoity toity art rags in the suburbs. They're so far up themselves that they think any negative review means they're not trying hard enough. So --" he dusts his hands "-- back on top."

[kemo_soggy]

"Is that how they do that?"
...Okay, so it's not Captain Hammer, but the guy still seems to have more than the usual amount of ego. So it's not entirely unfamiliar.

[bestsellingego.livejournal.com]

"You ever read James Patterson?" he asks, then nods abruptly. "Yeah, that's how they do that."

[kemo_soggy]

"I don't get to read as much as I want. I'm kinda rough on books."
Especially paperbacks. They're usually soaked before he's twenty pages in.