Larry announces that the March issue of Aoife’s Kiss is available, and gushes about Sam’s Dot.
Most important, if you are a new writer, I am living proof that you can slowly work your way up the ladder and get a “book deal” or “payment” or things such as an “advance” or “publicist” for your efforts . . .
Really? Who’s his publicist? And what’s up with all those quotation marks? Is he trying to tell us that he’s actually on the ladder? Gee. I thought he was still grasping for that bottom rung.
This is one way of becoming a WRITER…
This is being YOURSELF…
If someone tells you there is only one way to cross a street, well, you and I both know that that is ridiculous…
Does he fly across the street as opposed to walking across it, like the rest of us? Or is he trying to say that the only way to be yourself is to become a writer? As usual, he doesn’t make much sense.
More toxic advice. There is no ladder.
Daggy, REAL writers submit to the pro markets if they want to be recognized by pro markets. And they keep submitting to pro markets despite rejections.
Writing… you’re doing it wrong.
I just realized why he’s putting all of that text in quotes. It’s because all of his stuff is fake, and deep down inside he knows it. But his ego insists the Banana Republic self-image is his true self.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Larry the Poser.
I always thought that the way to be a writer was to..you know.. write. There is a difference, of course, between being a writer and being a successful writer. Since Larry is never going to be the latter, due to lack of talent coupled with the lack of desire to become better at the craft, he should focus on oozing out his writing in lieu of harassing others because of his jealousy and insecurities.
I will not, however, be holding my breath in anticipation of that ever happening….
First, I want to apologize for mistaking you for Dungstain on Janrae’s blog. My brain was not making with the “2+2=4” thing yesterday.
But I think Daggy’s idea of success is to set himself up (falsely) as prolific with a high number of publishing credits in the sub-pro and nonpaying markets. Never mind the fact that he never lists all those credits — I wouldn’t be surprised if at least half (if not two thirds) of those “credits” are actually reprints. Then he gives out toxic advice to new writers, keeping them mired in the same markets as he, while saying “don’t worry, you’ll be famous some day.”
So it’s success by comparison.
What Mike said about the “payment” in quotation marks.
I am living proof that a new writer can, you know, write a book, query agents, get an agent, and have that agent sell the book to a big New York publishing house for actual money. And I’m just one of thousands who make that happen every year.
So Dag is certainly not aiming very high. Aiming high is publishing shorts in actual pro venues and publishing books with actual commercial publishers, from the small market-focused presses (waves at Subterranean) to the big commercial houses.
I think going the whole querying of agents process is just too complicated for Larry to understand, and too much like work for him to be bothered with.
BTW, I just got a request from an agent for the first fifty pages of Smarter Than the Average Werewolf (the book formerly known as Howling in the Park). Ya’ll keep your fingers crossed for me, if you don’t mind.
Larry there is only one way to be successful…submit to PRO markets and keep submitting.
Yes, Larry, I can tell you and all other writers who want to become AUTHORS that there is only ONE way to cross the street.
And that is to go straight ahead. Not sideways across or in a zig-zag, but straight across. Straight to the PROS.
“publishing books with actual commercial publishers, ”
True. Samsdot will get him nowhere. Absolutely nowhere.
I don’t want to disrespect the small press, but Samsdot have not clout and no presence in the field. And no money to make it all happen.
So no, Daggy, you do not have a professional book deal as you have no advance from them, no advertising plan, no capital for a publicist, no bookstore deal and no clout in the business.
Daggy is about to learn the heard way that his Samsdot book will be no more recognised and sell no more than his self-published books with xlibris.
*crosses fingers for sirotter*
Go, Otter! Consequently, the same happened to me recently for my latest book.
Thanks, ya’ll. And a hearty ‘way to go!’ for you, Karen!
Hey, that’s fantastic, Otter and Karen!
I remember Howling in the Park, and still have the .pdf version I bought from Fictionwise. That was a fun story. I’ll have to read the reworked version.
Thanks, Rusty. I fixed that thing about it you didn’t care for much, and it’s about a third again as long. I like it better, anyhow.
Good luck, Otter and Karen!
Good luck! Now that’s the way you do it.
See Larry, you can learn from this guy!.
Larry says: “Sam’s Dot Publishing has come a long way in the last ten years, its authors being nominated for such awards as the Nebula, the Hugo,”
NO. The authors of Samsdot never won or were nominated for Hugos or Nebula awards.
Once in a blue moon, they get an author who has been nominated but who was published in ANOTHER market.
No Hugo author has benn nominated by a piece they wrote for samsdot.
YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT, DAGGY!
Best of luck, you two!
Thanks, ya’ll.
All the best to Sir Otter and Karen. (fingers crossed)
Thanks, Susie. :{)
I still can’t decide whether I like vampires, werewolves, or zombies best. Karen writes great vampire stories. Kim writes great zombie ones. Otter does a great job with the wolfies. Brian is all over the place, but I’ve never read anything of his, and not enjoyed it.
Vampires are next for me, in Dead Women in Love. And wait’ll you see what I do with mummies!
I’m playing with a seed of story involving werewolves in Russia (Chernobyl plays a part in the back story). I kid you not when I say it came to me in a dream. But I need to look at how Moscow police do homicide investigations…
And in Dumbstain news Larry still doesn’t get the fact that Lapine kills markets dead.
Wait. So I get to look forward to mummies? Cool. And, rather dusty . . .
And once again Loser Larry still doesn’t bother with research.
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/9953
Seriously, if I can find the submission info for the major player in the RPG field, the anyone can do it. It just goes to show why his “writing” is one spectacular load of FAIL.
The sad thing is when he claims that doing the research is “too much work” he probably means it.
He’s as lazy as he is clueless.
And victor hands Dimwit another smackdown! looks like Larry wants to branch out and spread his lack of ability in other places. However it seems to me he’s trying to goade Ant, though. http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/9953
That was my impression too… I have a feeling Ant won’t answer, and neither will anyone else.
Snark. I love it. Duh. You guys rock.
Well, one very nasty mummy. Real asshole of an undead Egyptian. None of the magic super-powers shit from the recent movies, either, although I enjoyed the first two.
Mummy, meet vacuum cleaner, or a two-stroke snow blower. I want to know how this one develops. It sounds interesting.
Count me in on the trolling. I saw that when followed Mike’s earlier thread and simply thought ‘bait’.
He reminds me of Sheriff Brodie throwing meat into the sea to attract the shark and then….!
He needs a bigger arse for all the smacking he gets.
I like mummies in cowboy hats and boots. 😉
Great. That includes me. I can toss the hat in a second, but it takes a whole lot longer to wiggle off the boots. I have a mini collection of them. Shut up. 🙂
As much as I loved Bubba-Ho-Tep, I’m not sure about dressing old Kha-Set-Mespha (The spirit who guards the citadel, more or less) in western gear. His saga will be a spin-off of Dead Women in Love. In fact, there could be five or six yarns spun-off from that, once it’s done and published.
I couldn’t resist answering.
He won’t like the answers.
Now it’s turned into a team fencing match vs. Dumbstain… and he’s getting skewered…
Hope things are looking with you and yours, Ant.
Glarg… meant to say “Thinks are looking up with you and yours…”
Anyone want to translate Dagstine to English?
Mike,
Not without potent medication and hallucinogenics.
Aww, thanks for the nice words up there. ^ I appreciate them because I know Rusty wouldn’t say them just to be nice. 😀
You know Larry, if you say you’re too lazy to do the research on markets then you have no right to call yourself a veteran or professional writer, and before you go calling people on their “illogic logic” (an illogical and nonexistent phrase), bear in mind that none of this recent spat would have come to pass if you spent five minutes doing your homework.
Because real writers do research.
Looks like he’s having a strop. Interesting that the post that did give him a full answer he hasn’t responded to.
Also seen Philbin emerge only to provoke a series of hilarious pics, especially by Unseemly.
For some reason Obvious Troll always, I mean always makes me laugh (laughing even now!)
“Anyone want to translate Dagstine to English?”
Sorry, I don’t speak retard.
I personally want one of his little pm story “pwnings” just because the fun I could have with it would be more than worth the probable ban I’d get.
Your response was far too logical and thought out to get a reaction from him.
Nice LOL cats in Philbin’s thread though. 😉
I couldn’t find a “NWO cat is in ur country undermining ur government” lolcat so I decided to tell a little story instead. 🙂
I was reading along, snickering at the lolcats and whatnot from Unseemly and Cynical, but totally blew ginger ale out my nose when I read that comment from Ray Garton.
The RPG thread that Larry started went splodey on me while I was busy packing stuff. I’m still playing catch up with it, and taking page grabs for posterity. Is there a limit to how many internets Victor can win in a single month?
Don’t look at me. Ant and Cynical totally took over. So did Raingod. I’m still giggling over Rain’s “Now why can’t you find the errors in your own writing?”
Then Cynical’s posting this: “Stimulation of vomiting… I’ll open this one up to the crowd, who else felt like having an informative tête-a-tête with the porcelain throne after reading Larry’s post?”
Then the entire James Moore post. And Morikawa. And Especially Ant.
Ant fucking OWNS Larry.
Ant is phenomenal. So is Cynical.
Thank you. 🙂
Hopefully my edited post will help him.
He won’t read that. It’s too long and full of facts and figures.
Raingod cracked me up.
Never mind. She passed on it. Back to the drawing board.
Booooo!