Road Trip Wednesday: Tats

The YA Highway crazies were chatting about what kind of tattoo we would maybe get if/when our books sold and it seemed a fun fit for a RTW topic. So, yeah. That's the topic. It's release day and you're in a strange city with too many happy hours and your best friend carrying your luggage.* Head down to the tat parlor and let us know what you're picking out!

As for me, well . . .

Some books have easily identifiable symbols. THE HUNGER GAMES? A mockingjay. On a shoulder blade, maybe.

THE SKY ALWAYS HEARS ME AND THE HILLS DON'T MIND? Fortunes (from cookies, of course). Perhaps a fluttering one dashed around a wrist with a particularly profound and personal message. Such as, "BOO YA! PUB QUEEN, YO!"

JELLICOE ROAD? Why, Jonah Griggs's abs, don't you know.

But MY books? They simply don't have those neat and tidy symbols. LOVELY, DROWNING has . . . a pair of Jimmy Choos? WILL AND ZOE has . . . a car? THE RISEN has . . . art supplies? I don't know. Neither of those things makes an appropriately suitable tattoo for me.

Besides, not all images from all books make appropriately cool/sexy/SANE tattoos. Case in point:

OMG that's not the symbol I would have gone with. Also, these are not on SMEYER, these people didn't write TWILIGHT, so WHY STARS WHY?!?!?!

Also2, my faith in humanity??? Gone, baby, gone.

Please don't let these people breed.

So that nixes the pictoral route.

Instead, I'm left with words. Book titles, perhaps, or one favorite quote from each book in TEENY TINY print lined up along my shoulder blade? I don't know. I'm not averse to the idea of Book Name with Pub Date listed the way some people have their kids' names and birthdates listed.

Or maybe a cover art department would come up with something particularly amazing and create a symbol for my books that would translate to awesome tat material. Who knows? I'm not a tat person** though I can and do appreciate their beauty and meaning for the wearer.***

How about you? What tat would you get to celebrate a book? Head over to YA HIGHWAY to see what the other highwaywomen chose and add your own thoughts to the topic.

*NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION. Stranger artist + alcohol + impulse = poor tattoo decision-making.
** i.e. tat virgin
*** in most cases. other times i'm left with the impression that the human race has utterly failed. twi-toos, anyone?