Exhibit 1.5.6

Question Time

J. Stock asks, Author branding question here:If you were to add a stylistic third 'middle name', what would it be?

I'm going to answer this here because A) I'm really only writing this blog for J. Stock at this point and B) It's a good question.

When I first started writing I thought I needed a cooler name, both because Adam Peterson is common enough another writer might share it and because, I don't know, cooler names are cooler (I could name authors I think are twice as popular as they would otherwise be because of good names but I won't).

Still, I'll admit I never thought about Cougar-ing up my name. If anything, I considered going with A. William Peterson because...I don't know. I'm an idiot?

Middle name options:

1) Dagger - My go-to fake cool guy name.

2) Stone - Because my friend Justin always named his RPG characters this and I thought it was cool and Justin doesn't write so screw Justin.

3) Adam - People would be like, "Have you read Adam Adam Peterson's new tiny book?" And other people would be like, "No."

4) Sarah - People would be like, "Is that a man or a woman?" And other people would be like, "We don't know and we're his parents."

5) Pepsi - I could either go uber-hipster or uber-sell out with it.

6) Night - No way that could go wrong.

7) Toni Morrison - Just because it would be confusing and everyone would ask if we were related although probably not.

8) Adrian - Same.

9) Pope - Because it could easily transition into a fallback career.

10) Wladimir - I've always loved those crazy half-Russian names that Cubans sometimes have. I want one. Now. I'll swim there.

Exhibit 25.24

How to Greet the Pope

There are so many things that are great about this eHow article not the least of which is its existence after I had to search for that exact phrase. Well, I guess I didn't have to, but if I didn't, I wouldn't have known that greeting the pope was Moderately Easy when all this time I thought it was Near Impossible. Since it's important to have goals, I'm in.

I've already got fully half of the things I'll need to meet His Holiness though I think maybe the writer forgot some things in his or her rush to remind us to purchase airline tickets. I'll also need:

* Shirt to wear under suit
* Pope tie featuring not-dead pope
* Good, ring-kissing lips
* Hotel reservation or pope's floor-appropriate sleeping bag
* Copy of The Da Vinci Code for him to sign
* List of pope-approved conversation topics like "Are there, like, pope ghosts?" or "What's the deal with pantsuits?"
* A fake scar so I look scary when walking the mean streets of Vatican City

Between all that and airline tickets, I can't think of a single thing standing between me and hanging out with the pope. Thanks, eHow. I can't wait to delve into this author's other articles:

Hey, I already know how to do two of those things!