Getting Book Published
POSTED BY: queenofthenorth
UPDATED: Friday, March 17, 2006 04:43
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KPO:
No dude. Please. Tell me what my major sin is. I'm so fucking infested with sin that the people who define the word at the dictionary companies will have to rewrite the defintion of it. My heaven is to be slithering around in a mud pit full of naked nympho-women who where ex-porn queens kicked out of heaven. Beat my naked ass with whips, call me all kinds of names, just lemme slither around nekkid with you in the slime.
Please tell me my #1 sin.. I can't escape the mystique of a 1-liner question... what's my major sin? Can you sum it up in 1 word or 1 sentence?
Doubtable.
Hell is probably a strip-club with go-go cages in every corner and a bar filled with decent booze. Satan is a barfly who fills your ear with nonsense. I'll buy that crazy fucker a shot of tequila and go tuck a few dollar bills down the G-strings of the strippers (as long as I get laid or at least get a lap dance). Woot N' shit.
Beats the hell out of a heaven full of endless clouds filled with chocolate-cake and happy-times.
XG
oh ROAR n shit!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Brighit:
Here is my novel, available for free on the following link
http://www.lulu.com/content/233995
It's fantasy, romance, a bit of adventure... Please do me the honour of reading it and giving me feedback!
If you were asking me, I would be happy to read it and give you feedback. Although you may be better than me to begin with, I don't know. But anyway, it sounds like the kind of book I would love to read either way.
"I'm having one of those things - a headache with pictures."
"Of course I'm right. And if I'm not, may we all be horribly crushed from above somehow."
Like books? Go to this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14862
to find out how to buy mine!
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I wasnt asking anyone in particular, just doing a bit of publicity. Thanks anyway, thought! 
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Hey Queeny... I thought my abrasive posting-style had officially hijacked this thread and made it radioactive... well?
You announced you were off to better things and yet here you are posting in this thread (oh wait, when I'm critical it's an avant-garde coup against the monster who is out to stop your book from being sold... ya oh ya I forgot about that... never let critics get in you way).
If you had (1) the heart, and/or (2) the soul of an author, you'd tell that mercenary piece of shit to go fuck himself and peddle his trash elsewhere. But you don't, so you won't.
You are none of the above (and neither is he). Cry and whine for me again about how you're not being published. The above should be a lesson to you. **time to go hug&cuddle** with Psolaris. He's a brute monster who is just a meany-weanie. Poop on him. Shoo! Go away XG you meanie!
I guess KPO ain't gonna indulge me with his 1-word answer to the question he posed. Ahh his sagely wisdom is an immortal treasure for the ages...
XG (middle-finger fully extended)
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Let's see here...Reading this thread is somewhat entertaining but to keep my bum intact I am not going to do be a 'prick.'
First of all: Queeny, I comend you for living out your dream. Being a high school sophmore filled with dreams that will at minimum lessen when I hit the even infamous 'real world.' I hope the sales are doing well as I know that starving artists and writers everywhere are being neglected. Being, as mentioned before, a mere high school student, I don't know if I'd be actually able to buy your book as I do not have much money. But it looks interesting, and if I can, I'll get my grubby little hands on it. I've written a good number of things myself, so I know some things about constructive criticism and the like so when/if I can get my hands on it I'll be sure to mentioned the minor grips that I genally just look over.
XG: From my view point, she really has accepted that you hated her novel. I guess maybe you interpreted her questions when she said things like: "You said it was horrible. Compared to what?" as sarcasim. I can see how this could happen, it did kind of look like it. But I think she was sincere and I'm not going to go into any speculation about anybody's motives because I have a tendency to be wrong. I'll just say that I think you should mentioned specific points that you didn't like to help make her a better writer.
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This is so silly. There are so many distrubed people who like to pick fights on the internet. Get a life already!
Queeny, recently I received your book in the mail. I have not started reading it yet. I'll get to it soon. Right now, I am so stressed right now trying to write my own stuff. That is why I respect you and what you are doing... living out your dream. That takes courage. No matter how hard it is, I'll bet you are much happier than a lot of other people out here.
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Ahh HARSHCRITIC:
I can add your "distrubed" statement to my column of labels. It's not easy playing the role of a villain... the paperwork associated with just keeping track of all the titles attributed to you could make an accountant lose his marbles.
I can just see you now dude... climbing the tower with a rose in your teeth, intent on slaying the dragon and rescuing the princess (or should I say "Queeny"?).
"Tally-ho, Sally forth, Sally Fields, Fear not m'lady for I shall save thee!"
Vivace:
Your grasp on the dimensions of this subject are a tribute the higher power of the human mind. Your keen insights should be harnessed for their energy and used to provide power to at least 1/3rd of the planet (the lesser 1/3rd). You're to be commended.
Congratz on buying her book. She will be delighted since in the midst of all her accusations about why I didn't "love" her book (dare I say "hate"?), she claims my "attacks" on her are simply selling more books. Ahh, the pity purchase. She got what she asked me for, didn't like it, and did exactly as I knew she would.
Pile on. Truth has a pricetag. Perhaps you and Harshcritic can come and whisper soothing things in her ear (just so long as you don't be honest with your criticisms). Make her feel good, but don't make her be a good author. Newp newp newp can't be having none of that.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Hey Queen
Just a quick hallor here. I'm some what into your book by now. Kinda moving back and forth between it and a fencing manual that I'm reading for Iaido. Anyways let me know where you want the feedback ie either on this thread or if ya want me to pm ya with it. Makes no diff to me. Have a couple pages already highlighted. For your first try not bad from what I've read so far. Especially since your jumping around w/ a couple of diff time lines and characters. Well hope everything else is going good for you and hang in there. Talk at ya later.
mata, Ookami yori
I ain't disagreen, I only wanted another drink 
1 mind, 1 strike, and 1 voice = Iaido/Kendo
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Thanks, Vivace, Harshcritic and Ooka for your support! It certainly means a lot to me that you guys would help out.
Ooka, you can post your constructive criticisms in this thread, that's fine by me. I hope you're enjoying what you've read of the book so far. That's my ultimate goal, after all.
Anyway, thanks again to those who've purchased my book! I will be back to see your criticisms!
"I'm having one of those things - a headache with pictures."
"Of course I'm right. And if I'm not, may we all be horribly crushed from above somehow."
Like books? Go to this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14862
to find out how to buy mine!
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Queen, don't bother listening to anything XG says. He's a troll, and nothing more. His entire outlook on life is to argue or discount anything anyone has to say. If you agree with something he said, he flips out and calls you a moron. Then, continues to contradict what he just said and blows down what he just finished saying.
Think of him as the griefers in MMOGs whose sole purpose in life is to make your's miserable, and all because their mother's an emotionless void and their father's a drunk.
If you want further proof, look at the "umm.. battlestar" thread in the General Forums.
( http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=18200 )
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