Greetings! John insisted on giving me credit and a forum for helping him with the story. He wanted me to be a co-author, but I did not feel right about that. I finally gave in to "major contributor" status and given the first word in how the book was created.

Yes, “I am not Suki” is homage to Leonard Nimoy’s first autobiography. Over the years I have accused John of being a privacy fanatic. Then this came up and I believe I have surpassed John in privacy fanaticism.

John and I are good online friends and have met in real life a few times. No, ladies, we have never dated each other nor have we been intimate, other than online play. We did “meet” in an online chat room and a lot of the action in the sex scenes was inspired from our online play. He is still unattached at the time of this writing.

I AM attached, guys and gals, I have a boyfriend now and we are exclusive. John and I are still the best of friends. He and my boyfriend have not had the opportunity to meet, but I am sure they will get along great when they do.

Some of the things I helped John with were "cleaning up" his condo, which resulted in multiple story changes, like his winning a lottery so he could have maid service (ask him about that). I provided the general banter between the ladies in the story, just the general way it would go and he tweaked the details to make the dialog fit. He based Trish and Sam off of several women he has known and I flavored them with past friends of mine who were similar. We both wanted Trish to be nicer than the way she started out. After John convinced me to listen to the Tammy Bruce show a few times I suggested he make Trish a little more like Tammy, except still hetero. She stopped being a “victimhood feminist” and became more of an empowerment feminist.

Also, I helped with a few of the "rules", because he is self-admittedly clueless about them, or ignores the ones he knows. I noticed he seemed to be working around them so they would not come up and I massaged that a bit.

Suki went to school in Charlottesville at my request, because I wanted to go to UVA, but never got there. I have a MS in Chemistry from a different school in the mid-Atlantic. John backed down some of the education he had initially given Suki. Her education is a combination of what John and I both think would be cool and complimentary to the couple's chemistry. What he had before was just too incredible. Not impossible, too unlikely.

Suki's list of languages was a lot longer in John’s earlier drafts. We both know one or two people who speak seven languages and that is what he had for Suki. I thought a shorter list would be more realistic. Somehow, giggle, her languages are the ones I wished I had learned. I think he captured the atmosphere of 2008/9 Crystal City perfectly. If I had written down my visit in 2008 I would have described it in much the same way.

She does not speak any Asian languages from a combination of John's experience and mine with some immigrant parents wanting their children to assimilate. Both of my parents are from Eastern Asia and spoke only English at home. They also had me teach them what I learned in English classes when I came home from school. John's father never spoke Italian at home, his mother never spoke Spanish or Latin at home either.

He was trying to avoid details about his character's son, but wanted his character to be based on himself. I saw no way around having him add some details. Especially since they are close in real life, I thought it would help to show that the father was a good-guy sort of parent. Having his son located on another continent kept the interaction and details down.

John needed some help with Suki's initial awkwardness, which became the not-quite-polished way she was in the beginning of the story and evolving into a true beauty. I think I added the book bag and John worked the rest. John had her clumsy at first, but that did not go along with her activities.

John’s character is a lot like him, but he was not describing himself that well, so I helped with that. In reality, his eyes are that random hazel and usually green, rather than a mood projecting color change. He is a very good dresser and the things his character wears in the story are pretty close to what he wears in real.

Independent acquaintances of ours asked if either Suki or John were based on John Galt, from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Neither of us has read the book, but after looking at a description of the character we decided that Suki should have read Atlas Shrugged but she did not really like John Galt. I do not see the resemblance, other than both characters staying out of the limelight. Something I noticed was Suki not using contractions before they spent the night together, but she did after. John did not think of the Commander Data tie. Not sure of that might be brought out more or left as is.

I DID notice another Mark Twain reference that John had but he did not realize using. See if you can find it. He mentions in the narration the ones he put in on purpose, during a dialogue between John and Suki after an evening with John’s friends.

We are both Loveline fans. John has not been listening much since Adam left the show. He was having trouble with Suki’s background and thought of the sexual experimentation angle. I came up with the brutalization element. It is not meant to show my bi/homosexual community in a bad light at all, nor the D/s, BDSM communities either. It is something that still happens too much in most communities. I hope people can focus on the couple and not their own personal agendas.

I browsed a bit of the Reaseon.Com/blog (Hit & Run) and have modified my views some. In case my boyfriend is reading this, no it will not be marriage by contract if YOU ever ask me, it will be in a house of worship with ‘government paperwork’. I have not posted to the blog yet, but I might soon. The scene where Sam is freaked out about her dreams and has to talk to Trish did happen to me in college. Trish plays me in the discussion and we had Chinese food rather than pizza. That friendship did not last much longer.

I do like the character Suki so much that I might play her online some. John mentioned that I could long before I ever thought of mentioning it.

I might add some more to this later, but for now this is what I remember that made it into the book.

Thank you for reading, NotSuki

Edit 24 March 2009: I finally set up an e-mail address in case people want to discuss, SukiCrystalCity@gmail.com and I can chat on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) as SukiSiteNotSuki

Please respect what I have said above and view my Bebo/AIM profile before jumping into an IM session? If I am on those screen names I am looking to play or chat about John's book. John's e-mail is below if you wish to contact him.

This item has been reviewed by DiscreetDomCC@gmail.com and is posted without revisions. 24 March 2009