A sentence I wrote was just cited in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Volume II. Or to put it more accurately, I just learned that I’d been cited, since the book seems to have come out in 2005.

It’s a thrill, of course, to make your mark like that, but I was surprised by what, out of all my writing, has now worked its way into a reference book.

Was it a sentence from one of my short stories? Or a passage from a poem? Or a pithy quote from one of my essays or editorials?

Nope. What got me into Partridge was the fact that I used the word “kayfabe” in Warrior Queen, the unauthorized biography I wrote 10 years ago about the WWF wrestler Chyna. (And if you had no idea I was ever involved in such a thing, boy, do I have a story for you!)

Here’s the entry:

It’s feels a bit strange to be immortalized for something as silly as this—I mean, people were using that term in print long before I ever did—but writers find fame on its terms, rather than our own.

I’ll take it … while at the same time hoping that I’ll be remembered for something more than that.