How To Upset a Goliath Book Biz

I've seen it, they group it with books on how to lose your manuscript and so on...

I believe if you advertise their crap, someone might buy it.

So You'd Like to...

Throw Your Writing Career Out the Window: A guide by Curious Writer


...ooooooh this is the one it's grouped with...sorry for the wrong title before.

That is a new low for PA. I hope that anyone who reads this book is smart enough to realize that it's merely a recruiting effort by PA so that they can suck even more money from unsuspecting writers. I was glad to see that Jenna was the first to comment, however, as her review pointed out the contradictions of the book. Perhaps that will save even a few people from PA's clutches.

I think it belongs in the Horror Section!

It's been out for a while, and discussed (and dismissed) here pretty thoroughly. Just proof postive that Willem Meiners can't write fiction.

Yep, it's been discussed....

Bartholomew said:

I saw this on amazon and almost fired a kitten-shaped brick out of my arse.

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What an enlivening presence you are.

Has anyone else besides me & JulieB noticed the amusing placement of the letter "i" on the statue of David on the book's cover?

:snorple:

Oh, wow...I did when I looked back at the site. Maybe with the "i" on Little David, he's secretly compensating for something. A Freudian slip or something along those lines. Hmm....

thats funny!

Gravity said:

It's been out for a while, and discussed (and dismissed) here pretty thoroughly. Just proof postive that Willem Meiners can't write fiction.

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I dunno, looks like fiction to me...

353 pages?

I'm thinking we could edit this down to about two words.

Here's the real horror:

"1 new from $157.81"

Gosh, let's hope Willie "stocked up" so he'd have "copies on hand."

Of course, there are the 9 others for a buck-fifty.

But I wouldn't waste a slug nickel on it.

Pages 277- 353 consist of PA authors' names (including mine, which I wish they would remove) and a few grainy photos. Those are the only lines in the book single spaced.

Without wasting a whole lot of time counting it appears there are approximately 175 words on most pages. Some have quite a few less. Spacing after periods is inconsistent; sometimes one and sometimes two spaces. I could see that just by glancing at pages.

I bought a copy on eBay before my arbitration for a couple of bucks, because I wanted to know more about the people I was up against. If I had read it before I signed my contracts, knowing that it was written by PA's CEO, I would never have signed with them.

Aside from the technical problems in the book, it doesn't begin to explain what goliath book biz PA has upset.

I thought it was his outline of how PA was going to Rule the WORLD of Publishing from the Hellocopter?

Resurrection of old threads is always fun.

I must say that I quite enjoyed the people's comments on this book at the bottom. I'm sure I got more out of reading those than the book itself.