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Your luck is turning.Yes very unlucky indeed. It would be better that I stay away from the casino. ...
I feel like I have escaped from a giant rabbit hole and just now am seeing the sun again.
Since I was given the green light to post it here, I will show you how deep that rabbit hole was:
-- and the cop writer she turned down with pages of gobbledygook to me about being "proper" JUST got picked out of 2200 other writers for Police Writer of the Year.
Here's a simple test: go to Google. Type in "police writer of the year." I can tell you how many hits you'll get: one. It's this thread at Absolute Write.
Any award given to writers, even if it's, say, a minor award for historical writing given out by a local writers' organization in Kansas, will turn up bunches of hits on Google. Writers write about whatever interests them, and awards given for writing are way up there on the list. If an alleged writing award turns up no other hits, it doesn't exist. An award that chooses from a field of 2200 writers but returns no hits on Google is an outright impossibility.
Also: they're giving this award to a book that hasn't yet been published? That's unusual, to say the very least. Unlikely, even. Verging on implausible.
For HONESTY.
Jack's out at 4 publishers now. Best reply: "We will take this seriously." Obviously, her posting does suggest she isn't into honesty. It is I who am being stalked here, isn't it? Some may never learn.
I sure did name and start the 'zine.
It wasn't around in the 60s -- I was there for the "underground newspapers." It started in 1985
and people -- well, that's on my abandoned blog. I don't want clients who don't like my blog, even if I did abandon it.
Like I said, let's see them get a phone call from a leader of a whole country asking permish to reprint one of THEIR articles for every church there -- and out into a whole bunch of languages in other countries.
Second: I never believe authors who go on about how successfully they've been published, but don't mention title, approximate publication date, or where it was reproduced.
Third: Why is he trying to establish what a great agent he is by bragging about his own writing?
Let's see THEM go worldwide out of nowhere, no la-la lunches with rich uncles and girly types helping the publishing industry take a dump with all the pretensions and paranoid egotisms and immaturity and so on.
(Further note: "rich uncles and girly types" is an attempt to suggest sexual impropriety. Whether he means het or gay depends on whether by "girly" he means girls, or girly boys. I suspect it's the latter, but who the hell knows? It's just a bizarre cliche he's lifted from some other context. "Pretensions and paranoid egotisms and immaturity" can be taken as (1.) a set of meaningless all-purpose insults he's using because he doesn't know any concrete particulars about the NYC trade publishing scene; (2.) a remarkable piece of projection; or, (3.) parsed as a unit, "people who have neither use nor patience nor respect for Tom Dark.")
I don't want writers with less power than I have,
and you've got it. You, my cops, my scientists,
and my other novelists. It's a tough row to hoe and I have the toughest, smartest writers.
post this there if you want, but alter the names appropriately. I'm busy. And I'll be busy long after they've been forgotten.
PS Did Sriram tell you his MS is going to Spielberg?
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