Secret Author Contest "Reveal the Secret" - Guess the Author

[drsawzall]

Life got in the way for me, and other than that...I plead the fifth...or was it I drank a fifth????

[CassieQ]

28 minutes ago, Gary L said:

Pork pie!

 

= lie in Cockney rhyming slang

I've been called worse.  

[BendtedWreath]

@drsawzall @CassieQ @Gary L @Jeff Burton What are some of your guesses? Did the list reveal change some of your guesses? It certainly changed some of mine. 

 

[Gary L]

6 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

@drsawzall @CassieQ @Gary L @Jeff Burton What are some of your guesses? Did the list reveal change some of your guesses? It certainly changed some of mine. 

 

Good challenge, @BendtedWreath, tomorrow I will review all the evidence…. And then copy you!!

[drsawzall]

8 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

@drsawzall @CassieQ @Gary L @Jeff Burton What are some of your guesses? Did the list reveal change some of your guesses? It certainly changed some of mine. 

 

I might have one or two, but the reason Las Vegas is so overwhelmingly glitzy is chumps like me

[Jeff Burton]

2 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

@drsawzall @CassieQ @Gary L @Jeff Burton What are some of your guesses? Did the list reveal change some of your guesses? It certainly changed some of mine. 

 

lol Ben, I'm still trying to figure out which one of these I wrote.  I know @Inkognitowrote My Dead Ex Is Haunting Me Through Grindr because I made a chapter comment once about really wanting to read that one so imagine my shock when I actually saw it.

The more I look at Fledgling the more it smells like @Topher Lydon but theres a couple of stories that actually fit him.  Well This Happened makes me think of @Lee Wilson see his previous Anthology Entry Well, Well, Well the tones are a good match.

I'm going to have to do some digging to match No Doubt About It because that story shook me.  That's another one that throws me off it sort of smells like Topher too but I can't quite pin it.  I will say that story along with Topher's Falcon Banner series have me in long term planning for my first entry into scifi so we'll see how that pans out.

As for the rest I'll have to come back to you.

[BendtedWreath]

4 minutes ago, Gary L said:

Good challenge, @BendtedWreath, tomorrow I will review all the evidence…. And then copy you!!

[Cane23]

1 hour ago, BendtedWreath said:

Thirteen - BendtedWreath

Nope, you didn't convince me! 

[BendtedWreath]

2 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

Well This Happened makes me think of @Lee Wilson see his previous Anthology Entry Well, Well, Well the tones are a good match.

Yes, that's a very good point. Not enough to dissuade me from unpinning him from Angel Keeps a Secret, but very good eye!

 

[BendtedWreath]

1 minute ago, Cane23 said:

Nope, you didn't convince me! 

Considering I only have two stories posted with two different genres/themes, I would be incredibly impressed if anyone managed to pin the correct name to my story. 😈

[Jeff Burton]

2 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

Yes, that's a very good point. Not enough to dissuade me from unpinning him from Angel Keeps a Secret, but very good eye!

 

So far nobody has guessed my entry so...

[Gary L]

6 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

Okay it’s tomorrow now in Spain but I need sleep and the dogs are complaining about the light being on, well one is, the other is snoring. Night night 💤 

[BendtedWreath]

1 minute ago, Jeff Burton said:

So far nobody has guessed my entry so...

Carpe Veritas Perhaps? You mentioned never writing in 3rd person, but that could very well be a ruse. 🤔

[Thirdly]

1 hour ago, Jack Poignet said:

Hint of the century: In my most popular story "Big Paws" I use song names as chapter titles. And I even (more or less) quoted a line of the song (that line sticks out rather oddly, trust me  ) And of course I thought about "What stuff does Jack actually write?" before I packed it all into the story.  Hey, I WANT to be recognized! 

If you wrote what I think you wrote, it was one of my favorites of the lot. 

[Cane23]

10 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

Considering I only have two stories posted with two different genres/themes, I would be incredibly impressed if anyone managed to pin the correct name to my story. 😈

Honestly, while reading Can I Tell Ya a Secret?  I was thinking you might be the author. Don't ask why - no rational explanation! 

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

Carpe Veritas Perhaps? You mentioned never writing in 3rd person, but that could very well be a ruse. 🤔

The number of people who feel I wrote that one is freakishly astronomical, and I give credit to that author for using me as a shield lol.  And what I said about 3rd person is absolutely the truth. Carpe Veritas is a very well done entry, and I'm jealous I didn't think of it first since it's something I would do.  But did I do it? I'm not that good.  

[Thirdly]

1 minute ago, Cane23 said:

Honestly, while reading Can I Tell Ya a Secret?  I was thinking you might be the author. Don't ask why - no rational explanation! 

No, no, one of my twins wrote that one. Trying to pin that one on Bennie when I want to claim it myself. 😂

[CassieQ]

38 minutes ago, BendtedWreath said:

@drsawzall @CassieQ @Gary L @Jeff Burton What are some of your guesses? Did the list reveal change some of your guesses? It certainly changed some of mine. 

 

I can confidently say that I might have written one of them.  

[Valkyrie]

24 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

lol Ben, I'm still trying to figure out which one of these I wrote.  I know @Inkognitowrote My Dead Ex Is Haunting Me Through Grindr because I made a chapter comment once about really wanting to read that one so imagine my shock when I actually saw it.

The more I look at Fledgling the more it smells like @Topher Lydon but theres a couple of stories that actually fit him.  Well This Happened makes me think of @Lee Wilson see his previous Anthology Entry Well, Well, Well the tones are a good match.

I'm going to have to do some digging to match No Doubt About It because that story shook me.  That's another one that throws me off it sort of smells like Topher too but I can't quite pin it.  I will say that story along with Topher's Falcon Banner series have me in long term planning for my first entry into scifi so we'll see how that pans out.

As for the rest I'll have to come back to you.

Lee Wilson is my guess for Well This Happened too  😁

[BendtedWreath]

5 minutes ago, Cane23 said:

Honestly, while reading Can I Tell Ya a Secret?  I was thinking you might be the author. Don't ask why - no rational explanation! 

I am not at that comedic level. That's one of the four that really had me laughing. 

[Jeff Burton]

3 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

Lee Wilson is my guess for Well This Happened too  😁

It's literally the only entry that screamed at me lol.  So if we're wrong, he did a good job.

[BendtedWreath]

1 minute ago, Jeff Burton said:

It's literally the only entry that screamed at me lol.  So if we're wrong, he did a good job.

I could very well be wrong in my guess on that one. I'm still not budging from it though. Someone has to stay static. 

[Cane23]

7 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

The number of people who feel I wrote that one is freakishly astronomical, and I give credit to that author for using me as a shield lol.  And what I said about 3rd person is absolutely the truth. Carpe Veritas is a very well done entry, and I'm jealous I didn't think of it first since it's something I would do.  But did I do it? I'm not that good.  

Writing a Review on your own story would be a new level of deception! 

[Thirdly]

1 minute ago, Cane23 said:

Writing a Review on your own story would be a new level of deception! 

Oh, come on, at least half of us did this. 

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Cane23 said:

Writing a Review on your own story would be a new level of deception! 

Pretty sure @Mark Arbour wrote What it Takes for that exact reason