I need help killing someone

[RogueLurker]

So .... is he dead yet?

Enquiring minds want to know ...

 

[FallingToFly]

So .... is he dead yet?

Enquiring minds want to know ...

Working on it... I had a rabid outcry from readers when it became obvious that I was going to kill him - he's more popular than my heroine. However - after he cooked Thanksgiving for twenty people, he spent three days bedridden, and he has two irate women fussing at him all over the place. They've taken away his beer (poor baby, reduced to O'Douls.) and if he goes outside one of them comes dashing after him with extra scarves, mittens, galoshes, coats, hats, etc...

I figure, between the comedy and the pathos, my readers will eventually let me kill him.. but I was threatened with a lynch mob if I do it before Ville and Kat's wedding.

*sigh* On top of that... I have a serious issue with another evil plot bunny.

I love my readers, I really, really do... but half of them have my phone number, and they call and convince my husband into making me stupid with husbandly goodies and then getting me to promise him things for them.

Any ideas on what to do with readers so enamoured with a should-be-dead guy that they won't let him die?

*snorts* I just had a sudden mental image of Shaun as Elvis... there will be Shaun sightings for years to come....

 

[snooper]

... Any ideas on what to do with readers so enamoured with a should-be-dead guy that they won't let him die? ...

Sell them to someone else - we all need more readers.

 

[FallingToFly]

Sell them to someone else - we all need more readers.

Go here and read some of the commentary, even on the really bad stories.

There's a reason we're called fanatics, and there's a reason we run in packs... we have loyal, devoted readers, who will leave all sorts of fun feedback, and in addition to that, we all know what was meant when someone says "Ville crawled, naked and glorious, across the bed, stalking him, thin bands of light illuminating the intricate figures on his sleeve."

*snorts* But then again... who wants readers like that, really?