'To Alistair Frisby who told me I would never have a book published and advised me to get a job selling jellied eels. SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY.' - PG Wodehouse (His 1957 autobiography, Over Seventy)
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'For Colin Firth, you're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.' -Shannon Hale (Austenland)
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'To my wife Marganit, and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam, without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.' - Joseph J Rotman (An Introduction to Algebraic Topology) **And my agent tells me there's no market for a picture book about fun things to do with Nana's chin hairs - go figure.**
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'What can I say about a man who knows how I think, and still sleeps next to me with the light off?' - Gillian Flynn
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'I dedicate this book to George W Bush, my Commander-in-Chief, whose impressive career advancement despite remedial language skills inspired me to believe that I was capable of authoring a book.' - Pedram Amini. (Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery)
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'For everyone who was ever mean to me in High School. Suck it.' - Sherry Ficklin (Losing Logan)
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'For my parents, even though they never bought me a robot.' - Prudence Shen (Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong)
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'Dedicated to two distracting little daughters, Pricilla, 4 years old, and Nancy, aged 2, who were no help in writing this book.' - Hillis Lory (Japan's Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life)
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'Dedicated to the voices in my head - No, I flat out refuse to do that first thing.... and quit nagging about the second thing, I'll do it when the time's right and the place is perfect.' - Me (A yet-to-be-written (not-for-children) book)
Have you come across any great dedications?
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'For Colin Firth, you're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.' -Shannon Hale (Austenland)
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'To my wife Marganit, and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam, without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.' - Joseph J Rotman (An Introduction to Algebraic Topology) **And my agent tells me there's no market for a picture book about fun things to do with Nana's chin hairs - go figure.**
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'What can I say about a man who knows how I think, and still sleeps next to me with the light off?' - Gillian Flynn
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'I dedicate this book to George W Bush, my Commander-in-Chief, whose impressive career advancement despite remedial language skills inspired me to believe that I was capable of authoring a book.' - Pedram Amini. (Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery)
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'For everyone who was ever mean to me in High School. Suck it.' - Sherry Ficklin (Losing Logan)
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'For my parents, even though they never bought me a robot.' - Prudence Shen (Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong)
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'Dedicated to two distracting little daughters, Pricilla, 4 years old, and Nancy, aged 2, who were no help in writing this book.' - Hillis Lory (Japan's Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life)
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'Dedicated to the voices in my head - No, I flat out refuse to do that first thing.... and quit nagging about the second thing, I'll do it when the time's right and the place is perfect.' - Me (A yet-to-be-written (not-for-children) book)
Have you come across any great dedications?
I love dedications. Before you even start Chapter One, there's a whole other story to discover. Who is important to the writer, and why?
I dedicated my first book to my kids. 'To Daniel, Andy and Adam - the best kissers in the world.' When I wrote that dedication they were little, and more than happy to lay one on me. Now they're teenagers and have declared that my dedication is, well, distasteful is probably the nicest word they have used. Mwa haa haa - Payback for all those public shopping centre tantrums. I win - I've embarrassed them in perpetuity!
While my dedication is funny only to me, some dedications are so funny, creative and clever they deserve be collated into a book of their own. Here are a few of my favourites:
I dedicated my first book to my kids. 'To Daniel, Andy and Adam - the best kissers in the world.' When I wrote that dedication they were little, and more than happy to lay one on me. Now they're teenagers and have declared that my dedication is, well, distasteful is probably the nicest word they have used. Mwa haa haa - Payback for all those public shopping centre tantrums. I win - I've embarrassed them in perpetuity!
While my dedication is funny only to me, some dedications are so funny, creative and clever they deserve be collated into a book of their own. Here are a few of my favourites: