dovegreyreader has been sitting on the naughty step today as per the Super Nanny guidelines, one minute for every year of her age, thus giving her four minutes shy of an hour in which to contemplate the wrong-doing and also to read a fair chunk of the Orange Prize winning novel The Lacuna.
This all deemed necessary following a rather terse e mail from the MD of Booker Prize PR company Colman Getty, who dovegreyreader thought made mustard and toilet bowl cleaners, but that's actually Reckitt & Colman.No, Colman Getty they make ...er... well they...er... well what does a PR company make exactly?
On second thoughts don't answer that.
But anyway they were sufficiently upset not even to address one as Dear, or Hi, just ...
"I am not quite sure why you think Colman Getty does the PR for The Orange Prize for Fiction but we don’t and never have....etc'
In fact this was a genuine error in Amanda Craig's wonderful piece on the Orange Prize Party and based on the fact that she felt sure the invitations had come from that source when they hadn't.
Suffice to say dovegreyreader is now responding to this request...
"I would be very grateful if you could put a
correction on
your blog as there’s nothing worse than inaccurate information that is
damaging to our reputation."
Quite right too, corrections have been made and fulsome public apologies for the error are hereby offered.
Verily, dovegreyreader wouldn't wish to do anything to damage Colman Getty's reputation, and perhaps should be flattered to think they even thought her capable of such a thing. Indeed her support for, and thereby unpaid promotion of the Booker Prize is legendary, even spawning the word Bookerthon, (doubtless a derivative of bog-athon, and contrived during a moment of enlightenment whilst under the misapprehension she was cleaning her toilet with Colman Getty products.) Bookerthon a word now in common annual usage around the blogosphere.
However if content to dispatch abrupt e mails to people they perhaps think aren't worth addressing by any sort of name, Colman Getty and by association the Booker Prize, probably feel they need little help this end anyway.
I don't know about you but in these 'ere parts, and heaven forbid that any of us have the right to deem anyone beneath us, but we aim for politeness and good manners no matter who we may be addressing.
Anyone up for the Bogathon this year?
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