A Dirty Job (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of A Dirty Job Monday, September 28 2009.

AndrewTheLott changed the title of A Dirty Job Sunday, September 27 2009.

Saul B edited the table of contents of A Dirty Job Sunday, September 20 2009.

• I. Part One: The Sorry Business
  1. Because I Could Not Stop For Death, He Kindly Stopped For Me
  2. A Fine Edge
  3. Beneath the Number Forty-one Bus
  4. The Beta Male In His Natural Environment
  5. Darkness Gets Uppity
  6. Variable Speed Heroes
  7. Thanatoast
  8. A Streetcar Named Confusion
  9. The Dragon, the Bear, and the Fish
  II. Part Two: Secondhand Souls
  10. Death Takes a Walk
  11. The Girls Can Get a Little Dark At Times
  12. The Bay City Book of the Dead
  13. Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Gogs of War!
  14. Barking Mad
  15. The Call of Booty
  16. The Call of Booty II: Requiem For a Fuck Puppet
  17. Was It Good For You?
  18. Yo Momma So Dead That…
  III. Part Three: Battleground
  19. We're Okay, As Long As Things Don't Get Weird
  20. Attack of the Crocodile Guy
  21. Common Courtesy
  22. Reconsidering a Career in Secondhand Retail
  23. A Fucked-up Day
  24. Audrey and the Squirrel People
  25. The Rhythm of Lost and Found
  26. Orpheus in the Storm Sewer
  27. Bitch's Brew
  28.
  Epilogue
  Author's Note and Ackowledgements

Saul B edited the table of contents of A Dirty Job Sunday, September 20 2009.

• I. Part One: The Sorry Business
  1. Because I Could Not Stop For Death, He Kindly Stopped For Me
  2. A Fine Edge
  3. Beneath the Number Forty-one Bus
  4. The Beta Male In His Natural Environment
  5. Darkness Gets Uppity
  6. Variable Speed Heroes
  7. Thanatoast
  8. A Streetcar Named Confusion
  9. The Dragon, the Bear, and the Fish
  II. Part Two: Secondhand Souls
  10. Death Takes a Walk
  11. The Girls Can Get a Little Dark At Times
  12. The Bay City Book of the Dead
  13. Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Gogs of War!
  14. Barking Mad
  15. The Call of Booty
  16. The Call of Booty II: Requiem For a Fuck Puppet
  17. Was It Good For You?
  18. Yo Momma So Dead That…
  III. Part Three: Battleground
  19. We're Okay, As Long As Things Don't Get Weird
  20. Attack of the Crocodile Guy
  21. Common Courtesy
  22. Reconsidering a Career in Secondhand Retail
  23. A Fucked-up Day
  24. Audrey and the Squirrel People
  25. The Rhythm of Lost and Found
  26. Orpheus in the Storm Sewer
  27. Bitch's Brew
  28.
  Epilogue
  Author's Note and Ackowledgements

Saul B edited the characters of A Dirty Job Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Charlie Asher: A "beta-male" who owns a second-hand store in San Francisco with a side job of retrieving the souls of the dying.
• marked the description of Charlie Asher as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the description of A Dirty Job Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Dirty Job Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Christopher Moore:

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Dirty Job Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Dirty Job Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Christopher Moore: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Sara’s request to combine 2 books, including A Dirty Job, Wednesday, July 15 2009.