[Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

[Evan Schuman]

Thanks, Ken …. I think.

😊

 

 

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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Ken Hess
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 4:19 PM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

 

Evan,

 

I'll pre-reject it. OK, your worst fears are real. Now finish that play so I can make it into a short film.  ;-)

 

After I unreject it, of course.




Thanks,

 

Ken

 

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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:02 PM Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com <mailto:eschuman at thecontentfirm.com> > wrote:

Agreed. I have been working on a play for about two years now … and it’s perpetually in the “70 percent done” stage. (No pun intended.) Why? I know that no one can reject my play until it’s finished, so by not finishing, I have successfully avoided rejection.

And if that’s not the most pathetic excuse for not finishing something, I’m not working hard enough.

 

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973-993-8098 <tel:973-993-8098>  (voice)

Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive: http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld)

Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events

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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> > On Behalf Of Barbara Krasnoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 3:48 PM
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Cc: Dennis Fowler <dennisf63 at wildblue.net <mailto:dennisf63 at wildblue.net> >
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

 

Congratulations! (I never realized that Computer Shopper was making anyone rich...)

 

Writing longform is a real talent. I've never been able to master it -- it takes me forever just to get down one lousy short story...

 

Barbara


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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com <mailto:lists at itwriter.com> > wrote:

9 days? That’s impressive. For how many words? Hubby’s record was 14 days for his NaNo 50K words, I think, but then there was a ton of editing. I beta read, but my sister acts as ruthless editor, and they have some grand battles when she comes to visit. Serves them both right – she got him to sign up for NaNo the first time during a Scotch-fueled Saturday evening debate over something or other. I, OTOH, was drinking cognac and stayed out of it 😊

 

 

From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> > On Behalf Of Dennisf63
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

 

I do want to make it very clear that this is the FIRST book I have ever self published. Most of them were flat fee, no royalties.  

That said, back in the 70s it was a lot easier to get published, really by a publisher published, than it is today. I got paid $500 for my first porn novel, got up to as much as $750 for them. I typed the first draft, my wife edited and retyped a clean copy and off it went. I even had one editor that paid me in advance once when $$ were tight. 

Sidebar: The fringe benefits of that arrangement made for a lively marriage, but it was all fiction. Regardless of what I wrote Peggy and I were together for 50 years and we never strayed. 
I did have a rather liberated old aunt I sent a book to and she said we must have a very interesting marriage. We did, just the two of us.  

Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke to the post office. 

On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:

On 1/9/19 2:02 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote: 

My husband has self-published 6 novels - it's quite do-able. The hard part 
is generating the words (he got his kick in the pants via NaNoWriMo). 

 

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