Made you look, you dirty duck.
Made you look for nothing.
That’s the version we sang as children after tricking someone into looking at nothing.
Or “gnaw-tin” with the proper Irish accent.
Different places around the world have different versions of the song.
Perhaps you were a dirty crook rather than a duck.
Or at risk of being turned into turtle soup.
But the game is best played in Germany, where they don’t seem to know it.
When we moved to Heidelberg, our flatmate Anne loved to suddenly stop while walking down the street and look up.
She’d wait until several Germans also stopped to look up, then she’d move on and laugh herself silly.
Building sites where nothing has been built yet (i.e., holes in the ground) are also popular for looking at in Germany.
They’re usually saved for Sundays, though.
So the whole family can enjoy the hole together.
But what do you look at?
2026 is the Year Morgan Grows His Newsletter and Sells Some Books.
To celebrate, I’d love to hear what fantasy/horror/genre websites you look at to keep up with the latest news, and which book reviewers you trust for recommendations.
Because if you like a certain website, and you like this newsletter…
other readers of that website might like this newsletter, too, right?
I’ve already started compiling a list, but there are so many!
So, I’d love it if you left a comment or replied to let me know which genre sites and blogs you read?
Chat soon,
Morgan
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