About Nerdette
BANNED IN IRAN!
All Nerdette Tickleworthy books are banned in Iran
by Article 24 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the field of books, the details of the clear restrictions of freedom of expression have been definitively defined by acts issued by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution Ref: 2010 Resolution of the Goals, Policies, and Terms of Book Publishing. Article 4 of the resolution lists 28 book topics that are prohibited, including but not limited to the following:
Mentioning details of sexual intercourse, sins, vulgar and obscene;
Using sex appeal; Promoting philosophical and ethical materialism;
Promulgating secular systems; Promulgating law breaking and debauching;
Sharing hopelessness, frustration, absurdity, and negative attitudes in society;
Scorning and ridiculing different classes of society.
Nerdette Tickleworthy is cast into the Banned Books Pit to join the likes of:
Dan Brown, Nikos Kazantzakis, Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Salman Rushdie, Gholam-Hossein Saedi, Sirus Shamisa.
At her risk of being beheaded in a fatwa,
Nerdette recommends and admits to enjoying
the literary functions of these authors.
WHERE SHE LIVES
It is no secret that Nerdette enjoys her sea-side clam shack on the rugged coast of a volcanic island. Which volcanic island? Well, she keeps that information a secret. Why? Because there are people who wish to harm her for expressing ideas that are not exactly in line with those of her would-be tormentors.
She keyboards her stories on a 1917 Underwood Model 5 antique desktop typewriter. She re-furbishes her ribbon using squid ink, and makes her own paper by combining washed-up seaweed and pulverized ocean trash cooked slowly in a castaway iron kettle she laborously dragged over a magma tube oozing hot lava. It is a blistering and stinky process, but is far better than paddling her kayak to a Paper-Is-Us Store across the open ocean. Not that she couldn't paddle that far, but Nerdette admits to being plain old lazy.
She stuffs her manuscripts into washed-up bottles,
corks those re-purposed shipping containers,
tosses the glass beyond the pounding surf,
and lets the current take them to her agents.
Sadly, Nerdette does not have internet yet.
She lives alone.
"I am positive that I would not want to live with a person
who is crazy enough to want to live with me."
All-in-all, Ms. Tickleworthy has a very low impact on our planet.
If you have a need to communicate with Nerdette, such as obtaining copies of her books, or rights to make a movie, or possibly to send her a new typewriter ribbon, contact one of her literary agents via email: HerAgents@Tickleworthy.com
IMAGES FOR MS. TICKLEWORTHY
"My literary agents want me to post
a picture of myself
so the crazies in this world
will recognize which head to lop off.
I don't think so.
Here are a bunch of images
that I sketched up just for you.
Pick whichever one you think fits best."
Interview With Nerdette
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