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03-17-2008, 03:44 PM
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Brilliant, Non Serviam! So it's a bit like the Cecelia Ahern technique, i.e. 'be a Taoiseach's daughter and get published'. Not because you're any good, but because your daddy runs the country - or supposedly runs the country, but don't get me started on that.
Sam.
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03-17-2008, 03:53 PM
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I think you're all being very unfair. Follow this lady's advice and you too can get reviews like hers:
Publisher's Weekly - "about as substantive as a flip-flop... will try readers' patience."
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03-17-2008, 04:54 PM
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Mike never fails to add his own unique blend of humour to the situation. Gotta love it.
Sam.
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03-17-2008, 05:39 PM
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Adept Writer
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All you have to do to sell these books is tell them not to procrastinate and if I, some no name author, could do it, so can you! You'll have idiots by the dozen reading and wasting their money on it. Then of course you could do the multiple volume self help books.
Book one: Procrastination= predestination to failure!
Book two: It's never to late to write! (Bull crap! What if you are completely paralyzed and have lost every function excluding thinking?)
Book three: Loop holes around editors!
Book four: If all else fails, just buy book 5!
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03-17-2008, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by mi is happy
Bull crap! What if you are completely paralyzed and have lost every function excluding thinking?
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Get one of those funny voice speaking things that Stephen Hawking has. Then, get some guy to write down your ideas. Then, make a stupid book: 'How to write while paralysed.' Then, make a million bucks, and write second book: 'Why people are dumb enough to buy How to Write While Paralysed.' Then, sit back and laugh.
By the way, Mi, you're username sort of gives away that you're happy, therefore you don't need your signature. Just an opinion.
Sam.
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03-17-2008, 05:59 PM
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She wouldn't be able to get the whistling emoticon in her nick, though.
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03-17-2008, 06:06 PM
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Like dialogue tags, Foxee, I don't like emoticons. I let the tone of my writing indicate my mood.
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03-17-2008, 06:44 PM
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She wouldn't be able to get the whistling emoticon in her nick, though.
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Ahh! Thanks Foxee!  I'd miss it too. I love the whistling!
Also the sig really points out how happy I am. My name isn't mi is verrrry happy.
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03-17-2008, 06:58 PM
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Just because I can never resist kicking a dead horse:
Ms. Guaranteed Blockbuster keeps sending me PM's about how cool she is.
The latest is an alleged endorsement by "horror writer Martin Treanor" who read 25 pages of her book, swooned and said it led him to success.
His website cites a couple of short stories in web-based "magazines" and announces that the "much awaited" novel "The Temptation" will soon be available. Which it is: from lulu.com
We can assume that he learned a lot from her tipsheet to be able to create a query to sell the notoriously picky editors at lulu on this blockbuster project.
Meanwhile an examination of her chicklit "smash hit" (from Citadel, a small imprint of Kensington) ranks 149,561 on amazon.
Even more interesting is this comment in the customer reviews:
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All of the other reviews sound exactly the same, about the same length, no specifics, suggestions to buy the book for friends, most reviewers have not reviewed any other books, etc. This is a sign that they have been written by promoters, not real people. Is the book this fake?
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Comments on that comment include two others saying they think the other reviews are fraudulent and a chipper response from the irrepresible Ms. Sozio saying that shoes are a valuable tool for women to judge men by and the book is endorsed by "celebrated relationship expert Dr. Pat Allen"
Allen is also described and as a "best selling author", perhaps on the basis of "Getting to I Do", rated at 9,812 on amazon.com or perhaps "Kissing Or No Kissing", which weighs in at #449,053 (Perhaps he read Sozio's book betweenw writing them?) Both are heavily discounted, and "Kissing" is published by Cheval Publishing...the only book in its catalog.
Now. I ask you....
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03-17-2008, 07:15 PM
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Now. I ask you....
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Ask what?
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03-17-2008, 07:30 PM
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That's just Lin. He likes to play with people's minds. Makes a damn good point, though.
Sam.
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03-17-2008, 07:37 PM
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Lin if she's harassing you by PM you may want to alert a Moderator.
Oh...yeah.
So are you actually complaining or are you enjoying the attention?
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03-17-2008, 07:49 PM
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Foxee, you're getting drunk with power. I like it.
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03-17-2008, 07:52 PM
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 heh heh |
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03-17-2008, 09:04 PM
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I don't know what all the fuss's about. I read the original post and quite enjoyed it.
Perhaps I'm gullible?
And on an associated note, as I do in fact believe what I read in that post, I wonder whether all wannabe writers should also do a course in Salesmanship before attempting to have anything published.
And Sam, never mind the maths, just read the small print - it was an extract.
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