April Fool’s Jokes
Just a few choice ones:
Clarions to Reduce Weeks, Team Up with SyFy, and Engage in Cage Fighting (see Kelly Link swear like sailor) – by a certain squid…
Mashups, Including My Forthcoming War and Peace/Alien-Pred Novel (and more fool linkage in the sidebar)
New Dollar Sign to Reflect Economic Conditions
Juno to Publish a Line of Books for Men
Can You Withstand Ukraine’s National Anthem?
NASA, Ahem, Humor About Astronaut’s Head (oh dem NASA peeps, they cracks me up)
Academic Publisher Humor (oh–stop, stop; yer killin’ me here…SPEW? Reeeally?)
Cheryl Morgan has links to some here, as well.
And, finally, a few of the more obscure ones:
Jordan’s Wheel of Time Keeps on Rolling–Now Three New Concluding Volumes
April 1, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Sadly, that one about the Wheel of Time is real. But it has been fun having fun with those who are decrying it these past few days, I’ll admit :P
April 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm
“The Bible, Now With Added Dinosaur Attacks” !
That made me laugh.
April 1, 2009 at 3:39 pm
And PW, a year late, rips off (unintentionally) my writer show idea from 2008:
Now
http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266/post/1530013553.html
Then
http://www.locusmag.com/2008/0401_BravoTv.html
April 1, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I see George R.R. Martin has a pretty good one up now as well.
April 1, 2009 at 6:21 pm
…but …but, I really wanna read Moby Dick vs. Cthulhu.
April 1, 2009 at 7:04 pm
The GRRM joke is beautifully crafted. Outstanding work, there.
April 2, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Ha ha!! Not only is it another genre of fiction …. but a musical style as well.