Talk:The Abalone Thief/@comment-25052433-20150201013710/@comment-26030957-20150201021220

Thank you so much, Banning. Maybe I should edit out some of the marine biology. What I was trying to do was establish a mood and display just how creepy and weird sea life is as a foreboding to the coming of Cthulhu- you know, with the tentacles and all (I honestly had no idea that abalone even had tentacles before I started my research for this story). I was also trying to establish character- that the protagonist is a scientist- and make this as realistic as possible. 



I also thought readers would groan if I even mentioned the word Cthulhu so I purposely left that out and instead just mentioned tentacles and wings (notice I also never once said "indescribable horror") - I guess I'll have to wait and see how readers take to it. 