One Way to Kill your Career
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Ugh, wish I'd read these posts before clicking over to the blog, I got hit with something, too. Since I haven't been to many sites today (email, AW), seems likely it came from that.
I admire the patient and obviously kind people who are trying so hard to help her.
She's obviously gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
She's obviously gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Judging by this poor soul, we will have to abandon our normal crazy and go bungee jumping with no cord.
When we are published and dominating things, we will throw the biggest bat fuck mad fit the internet has EVER seen,Scarlet.
I can't shake the impression that there's something... calculated about the blog.
Whether it's the pictures, the cartoons about publishing or the quotes in the titles of the posts - they're a contrast to the writing, which is often crude and slapdash. Maybe deliberately so?
Or maybe I just can't believe anyone is so clueless about the consequences of doing this.
Whether it's the pictures, the cartoons about publishing or the quotes in the titles of the posts - they're a contrast to the writing, which is often crude and slapdash. Maybe deliberately so?
Or maybe I just can't believe anyone is so clueless about the consequences of doing this.
You deserve an award for that.
I say we go tag-team loony-tunes on Amazon, Facebook, Blogger and AW in a co-ordinated internet blitzkrieg of unhinged bungee-jumping-off-Sanity-Bridge-with-no-cord career suicide.
Do you think if she's being published by PA, is she saying that in the query?
That would probably answer the quick response form letters.
That would probably answer the quick response form letters.
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According to this in her archive, her publisher is Grand Central Publishing, which is 100% legit. Which increases the bafflement. Though if her sense of entitlement comes across in her query, that might be the problem.
Still, the bottom line is that selling a book to a publisher, even a good one, is no guarantee of getting an agent or selling your next book.
Still, the bottom line is that selling a book to a publisher, even a good one, is no guarantee of getting an agent or selling your next book.
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My Editor-in-Chief told me this afternoon that me and sanity aren't exactly close pals, so...
I guess I must be loveably batshit.
I guess I must be loveably batshit.
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My Editor-in-Chief told me this afternoon that me and sanity aren't exactly close pals, so...
I guess I must be loveably batshit.
It's a good thing she had me as a warmup. Something to prepare her for your brand of batshittery.
Yes. She suggested that SOMEONE had dropped hints as to the precarious nature of my hold on reality...
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Agreed. This seems like an obvious joke to me (she/he even refers to the site as "entertainment" in one of the comments).
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Yes. She suggested that SOMEONE had dropped hints as to the precarious nature of my hold on reality...
All I said was that you are my writing partner. Hmm...I guess I see your point.
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Imagine how insane I'll be when I publish something vampiric.
Mental bloodsuckerage is all the rage now, you know. All the cool kids are going whoops-where's-my-strait-jacket online.
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