According To Hoyt

Sometimes you come across new expressions. Rarely do you come across new expressions that make you go “oh wow.” When you do — well, when I do — you immediately steal it and incorporate it into your vocabulary.

Today while reading news commentary — without getting into politics, someone was wondering why a photographer thought he would get away with a crude forgery — I came across “he assumed his bureau chief was not unduly burdened with clue.”

I loved that expression — the take on “has no clue” to imply he has some, but not nearly enough to know when he’s being led around by the nose. Clue as a burden that makes you notice things other people miss — thereby staying out of trouble relative to you. All of that is there, implied, in layers.

I’ve since found occasion to use it on my kids “You’re not unduly burdened with clue” and on various acquaintances.

I like it. And I’m a writer, which means I have permission to steal.

Forgive in haste and semi-coherent posting. I’m also a writer on deadline for third musketeers book and I mean to deliver pretty much close to sort of on time. :)

Sarah

Hello world. :)

I thought I’d start by introducing myself. This is bio lifted from cover of my upcoming — Nov. 06 — novel Draw One In The Dark:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah A. Hoyt has sold a dozen novels in various genres. Most recently, as Sarah D’Almeida, she published — note HAVEN’T but will have by November when this comes out — Death of a Musketeer, a mystery novel featuring the three musketeers plus one. She has also published over four dozen short stories in well-regarded magazines such as Asimov’s, Analog, Amazing and Weird Tales, as well as several anthologies. Some of these stories appear in her collection, Crawling Between Heaven and Earth.

Sarah grew up in a small bucolic village on the outskirts of Porto, Portugal, a major Atlantic port city. This naturally means that she will forever gravitate to the largest city available in her region, under the principle that she saw enough cornfields and vineyards in childhood to last her a lifetime. The one thing she didn’t see growing up was diners. The idea of a restaurant being open all night never occurred to her until she came to the States at twenty two. She remains fascinated by the places and has the ability to home-in on a diner in any strange town in less than twenty four hours.

She currently lives in Colorado – where the best diner is Pete’s Kitchen, in Denver — with her husband, two teen boys and a pride of cats. She usually can be found at the corner booth of a convenient greasy spoon, hard at work on her next dozen novels. You can catch up with her progress at http://www.sarahahoyt.com