Thanks Heebie! I promise not to smoke inside the apartments of anyone who reads my books.
I thought from the thread title this would be a thread where we recommend books to each other.
Maybe it still will be!
If it's that, I will say that I am absolutely dying for The Skies Belong to Us, recommended by Tweety during the DB Cooper thread. It turns out that all I want to do is read about marginalized outcasts going postal in the 60s and 70s.
Looking forward to LB eviscerating reviewing each of them.
Yes, I look forward to more hack jobs as well. Maybe you could give me one too, Kreskin.
Is it really that hard to make fun of a self-publishing author?
I'm going to make this longer than ogged's stupid music thread.
I can't believe it's that difficult for you all to make fun of this somehow.
would it help if I did smoke inside your apartments?
Is this because I thanked LB too much and too late?
I do believe my thread is longer than ogged's.
If you have Prime, you can borrow text's book.
which one are you loaning? did you like it?
I'll check out the Professional Responsibility one in a bit.
I'm reading my second Nero Wolf book. I'm liking Archie more.
3: I enjoyed that book a lot too. Are you still reading it, heebie? There's something I wanted to ask about it, but I don't want to be a spoiler.
I downloaded Professional Responsibility at the the time of the last thread. I'm good evidence that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Which one of text's other books have a lawyer as the protagonist?
In my day job, I probably do not have time to re-edit my reports more than twice, if that. I find that when writing on my own, I find mistakes and stuff that needs revising even on the fifth or more edit. By that time, I am bored reading my own writing. How many times do you revise?
Hi Robert. I don't know if he's really the protagonist, as much of the book is comprised of stories told by someone else, about his own life, but Thomas in The Triangle Part is a young attorney as well. I suppose he's as much a protagonist as Telemachus is in the Odyssey -- maybe more so. You will also find two stories about attorneys in Cover Band. One of those stories is about an attorney who wastes all his time on a clever blog.
Regarding editing: Some of my books I have revised quite a lot, and some of them not very much. I spent a long time on The Triangle Part. There might still be typos though. I spent much less time editing Shed, in which there might also be typos. I suppose I became more confident in my writing. Maybe there was cause for that, maybe not, but I definitely prefer not spending so much time on individual pieces now. Some of my short stories I really went crazy editing, mostly because they kept being rejected. And I like how those turned out, but I also like my later stories, which I edit less.
I have to say, if there is one thing that has turned me off from trying to write a novel, it is hanging out with my Big Author friend. He was telling me about how the editor of a local, successful small press gets about 4,000 submissions per year, out of which 400 make it out of the slush pile, 30 of which are good enough that he'd really like to publish them, and only 14 of which actually get published. So that's like 3,986 books, 386 of which might be at least passably decent, that get rejected per annum. Might as well just stick to blog commenting, the payoff is better.
Heebie, do you have a really early flight or is this insomnia again?
Yes, I don't recommend writing unless it's something that you just really want to do.
Super early flight. Melatonin has been miracle cure for insomnia.
Melatonin has sometimes not worked well for me. I think I may have an odd brain chemistry.