Escaping Suburbia

Isn’t that a great name? Dagger Monroe.

That would be the name of the clever, noirish, gumshoe detective in my novel. If I were writing a novel about a clever, noirish, gumshoe detective. Which I’m not. But, if I were!

This combination of words came up on a recent CATCHPA form I had to fill out and they stuck with me. Can’t you just see old Dagger behind his desk, musing over some dame who just sauntered into his life? She’s sure to spell trouble!

Did you know that a lot of those CATCHPA (reCATCHPA) forms are helping to digitize old books? I saw this article recently on NPR and thought that was a pretty cool merging of technology and need, truly capturing those keystrokes and putting them to good use. For a cause like that… Dagger Monroe doesn’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

(heh)

Filed under: General on August 15th, 2008