There is a rumor going around the Internet that “Daisy Whitney Mockingbirds” returns higher in a Google search than “Daisy Whitney Calves.”

Oh wait. It’s not a rumor. It’s true. (Well, it was true as of Friday Nov. 20). And it’s not really “going around” since I started it.

Allow me to clarify. Yes, when you Google my name my novel The Mockingbirds returns higher in the search options (the words that Google aims to autofill when you search) than calves. Actually, Daisy Whitney Mockingbirds is the first option and as a soon-to-be-published author this makes me all sorts of happy and giddy.

But, why some have wondered, does Daisy Whitney calves show up at all? As a Facebook friend wondered, “Did I once interview someone for the New Media Minute and discuss their calves? Or perhaps did the camera shoot low and happen to capture their calves?”

None of the above.

Rather, on the eve of my 29th-for-the-ninth-time birthday this summer, I bought a pair of five-inch ankle boots and mentioned it in a Facebook status update. Immediately, I was “besieged” with requests for photos. Naturally, I handed my camera phone to dear husband stat and said, “Take a picture of these awesome shoes.”

And since my legs were in the shoes, my legs were in the picture.

calves

A few days later, my colleague Leo LaPorte, aka “The Tech Guy,” friended me up on Facebook since I host “This Week in Media” on his network, and promptly began discussing the photo and my calves the next day on his “MacBreak Weekly” show.

Let me tell you — I have never received so many Facebook friend requests in one day and they were all from men!

So that’s why my calves show up at all in Google search results.

But now you’re wondering if I’m just relying on a cheesecake shot to draw attention. Well, when you walked to school 20 miles uphill each way in the snow, it ain’t cheesecake, baby! It’s good, old-fashioned legwork!