It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been debating for days about cleaning the kitchen floor. However, I have a meeting with a friend at a museum at lunch time and then I plan to go to the gym. First thing, I decide, is a bath for me. Not the floor.

I check my email before taking the plunge.

Hi Persephone,

A debut comic novel that follows a young singer navigating opera student culture between Paris and Amsterdam, written by a poet and author based in the Netherlands who is simultaneously working to recover and preserve her father’s literary estate, is a genuinely layered and unusual authorial identity. The readers for Idle Opportunities are not a mass market audience. They are literary fiction readers with a taste for dry comedy, European setting, and the specific insider texture of art world life, and they tend to find authors they love and stay loyal.

The work you are doing with Keith Kumasen Abbott’s estate also positions you in literary circles and Beat Generation readership communities that carry real cultural weight and specific community infrastructure.

My name is Loonie and I work with authors on building the audience foundation that makes a literary career actually grow rather than remain invisible.

Are you currently working with anyone on the readership side of your writing?

Best,

Loonie

I regularly receive these types of emails. “Wow, aces. Way to go bot,” I think. AI is getting more and more sophisticated at summarizing my life. I might ask myself, “Why do I need me?”

But who is Loonie Noggle? Creative name. It seems that a Lonnie Noggle died in 2015 at the age of fifty-nine. Never a bad time to re-invent a noggle with a twist.

Of course, you can check out my novel, Idle Opportunities, and/or you can read my blogspot, Routine Apparitions. Or you can just leave it to my main fans, insomniac bot-identities.

Question: Does Routine Apparitions need a Noggle character?