![]() ![]() But as I do not write full-time, the seasons pulsed inexorable, and then in 2010 a movie starring Jake Gyllenhall and Anne Hathaway was released, entitled Love and Other Drugs. I read it immediately, impressed and reassured that it had nothing but three words in its title in common with my current project. The thing is, though, after I’d begun to research Love and Other Pranks in earnest, I discovered that Gabriel Garcia Marquez had first published a novel called Del Amor y Otros Demonios, i.e., Of Love and Other Demons, in 1994. Both of them discovered a transcendental sexuality that night, but their love is for another story, a story of love and other pranks. An hour later, she happened to run into her estranged boyfriend, over whom she’d wept because of their separation just that morning. She stopped long enough for Diablo to catch a smirk from the Argue Naked emblazoned across the front of her T-shirt, hesitantly touched the side of her nose, and changed her direction, whispering “Walk away” to herself. Their love is for another story, a story of love and other pranks.“Where do you think you’re going?” Diablo demanded, and a passing woman with impossibly long harvest brown hair streaked sexy with a few strands of silver heard his rhetorical inquiry as if it were intended for her. As I had not yet completed my second novel, and because I’d recently realized that all three of my books should take place within the same fictional universe, I included an Easter egg reference to Love and Other Pranks in a paragraph on page 288 of Nine Kinds of Naked that first linked the three novels together: ![]() ![]() The title of my third novel, Love and Other Pranks, was borne of a conversation with a good friend sometime in 2007 in an A-frame in Austin, Texas. ![]()
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