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Fishwives?

As a male, I have reached the 'Old Fart" stage, or maybe curmudgeon.

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It's come to my attention Tinyhorn is being attacked by an elderly woman. (author) Victoria Strauss who I'm told writes second-rate, Fantasy Ebooks, (sister site 4 book reviews) and is involved with a website called absolutewrite.com Was it her work rejected or James D. Macdonalds, Donal? Consequently we can no longer accept...

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I believe the missing bit is "unagented manuscripts." (If you read fast while the page is loading but before that button gets pasted on, you can see it.)

Y'see, folks, why you can't submit to these sterling characters? It's my fault! It's Victoria's fault! Blame us for taking away this opportunity.

Or get down on your knees and thank us. Your choice.
 
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James D. Macdonald said:
It's come to my attention Tinyhorn is being attacked by an elderly woman. (author) Victoria Strauss who I'm told writes second-rate, Fantasy Ebooks, (sister site 4 book reviews) and is involved with a website called absolutewrite.com Was it her work rejected or James D. Macdonalds, Donal? Consequently we can no longer accept...

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Y'see, folks, why you can't submit to these sterling characters? It's my fault! It's Victoria's fault! Blame us for taking away this opportunity.

Or get down on your knees and thank us. Your choice.
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Gaak! Victoria an elderly woman...Uncle Jim's work rejected (finished Land of Mist and Snow in about a week). Righto. They sure know how to do their research on authors, don't they? :tongue

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Attacking two prominent members of the science fiction and fantasy community is extremely counter productive and does nothing to enhance credibility. To slam anyone's publish record is foolish considering they haven't published one single book!
 
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James D. Macdonald said:
It's come to my attention Tinyhorn is being attacked by an elderly woman. (author) Victoria Strauss who I'm told writes second-rate, Fantasy Ebooks, (sister site 4 book reviews) and is involved with a website called absolutewrite.com Was it her work rejected or James D. Macdonalds, Donal? Consequently we can no longer accept...​

I believe the missing bit is "unagented manuscripts." (If you read fast while the page is loading but before that button gets pasted on, you can see it.)

Y'see, folks, why you can't submit to these sterling characters? It's my fault! It's Victoria's fault! Blame us for taking away this opportunity.

Or get down on your knees and thank us. Your choice.
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Man, I'm so sorry they rejected your book or Victoria's. I hope they weren't offering big advances, you guys must be so tired of your books going to such tiny presses as TOR, Daw, Ace, Ballantine et al. Those mid-high five figure advances are so tiny. And it must be boring to sell just 50-100,000 copies of a title.

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Victoria Strauss who I'm told writes second-rate, Fantasy Ebooks, (sister site 4 book reviews)
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Funny, I was told Victoria is a twelve-year-old child prodigy whose work has won the Pulitzer five times, starting at the age of six. No, really. This guy at work told me his secretary's mechanic said he met a guy who once saw Victoria in a store. It was either Victoria or Dakota Fanning.

Sure, I could do research and see if what I heard was wrong, but dagnabbit, why should I actually look something up before I go running off at the mouth?
 
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Boy! Talk about your internet meltdowns! This one is a dozy! I guess this means that we shouldn't submit anything too them at all right?:ROFL:
 
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Maybe the site is an April Fool's Joke. I mean ,the menu items do run away from the cursor, it's hard to take the site seriously.
 
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I think it's got to be some kind of weird joke. Their website now has a picture of a pretty blonde girl and this text:

The beauty of M.B is undeniable, the ugliness of absolutewrite is obvious. Those old old sea-hags have always been jealous of how pretty I am. I could wrestle any of those geriatrics into submission in seconds, if I wasn't busy using their manuscripts as toilet paper, I've been pooping on them all day. I have a new site,up and running and yes It gets literary agents since I know many of them PERSONALLY. They don't even know what absolutewrite is (more like absolute crap). Please come back soon! I'm going to turn this site into a pay for peek, where you can use (paypal) and watch me and my girlfriends peeing on images of your work, your pictures, and your manuscripts. (Really.) Stupid people in groups seem to back each other up. P.S. The first page (the red with the music) will be back! Later bitches. P.S.S I've already received some of your submissions at my new site, under it's new name.
 
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I think it's got to be some kind of weird joke. Their website now has a picture of a pretty blonde girl and this text:

The beauty of M.B is undeniable, the ugliness of absolutewrite is obvious. Those old old sea-hags have always been jealous of how pretty I am. I could wrestle any of those geriatrics into submission in seconds, if I wasn't busy using their manuscripts as toilet paper, I've been pooping on them all day. I have a new site,up and running and yes It gets literary agents since I know many of them PERSONALLY. They don't even know what absolutewrite is (more like absolute crap). Please come back soon! I'm going to turn this site into a pay for peek, where you can use (paypal) and watch me and my girlfriends peeing on images of your work, your pictures, and your manuscripts. (Really.) Stupid people in groups seem to back each other up. P.S. The first page (the red with the music) will be back! Later bitches. P.S.S I've already received some of your submissions at my new site, under it's new name.
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Okay...I thought you were just joking!:Jaw: That has to be the dumbest crap I have ever seen! Not at all professional! Oh, well Uncle Jim, I guess there goes your chances of anything of yours being published by them. So sad....:ROFL:
 
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I think a writer would have to be pretty crazy to submit to them after those hissy fits, and an agent would have to be certifiable. Anyone want to take bets on whether the first book (if any) they put out is written by one of the people who started this "publisher"?
 
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