In the past two days, Lorenzo posted two new blog entries, here, and here.
ATOMJACK is by far one of the better ones, and it’s proven rightly so with their material and lineups over the past four years. This would be my 3rd appearance with them. Published by Susurrus Press, Atomjack is edited by Adicus Ray Garton.
Now, if you look at the picture of the page he posted, the editor is listed as Adicus Ryan Garton. Daggy’s real reason for the post, of course, is to give himself a pat on the back . . . because nobody else will.
It’s a little blurry, but do you recognize the name in the picture? Yay! To think I gave up career opportunities in art, pharmacy, neuroscience, and the science of publishing for this. It’s gotta be worth at least a Big Mac.
I’m sure neurologists the world over miss you, Daggy. How else would any of them be able to diagnose MS, Parkinson’s, or –gasp! — a pinched nerve? What is a “career in pharmacy,” anyway? Is that the same thing as running one of the cash registers at CVS or Rite-Aid?
Nova Scifi will be publishing me for a Fifth and Sixth time in their print venue between this year and next. They’ve been around for a number of years and are very popular in smaller press/religious Scifi circles. NOVA SF is edited by Wesley Kawato. They DO NOT accept email subs, but they will look at snail mail. If you want to break into this market, it is recommended you have some kind of background in science or follow the guidelines to a tee. If you get the cover and headline story, you get more.
More than what? That Big Mac that Atomjack sent you? I’m sure Larry’s background in running cash registers at a drug store helped him break into that market.
On another note, I’m going to miss print. Now that everything is becoming digital… Oh yeah, did I forget to mention the Next Generation Genre Magazine? Stay tuned… There’s a LOT in the pipeline. From editing opportunities to a second collection to the magazine of the future!
That’s what his new publishing venture’s going to be called? Is Kristy involved?
“To think I gave up career opportunities in art, pharmacy, neuroscience, and the science of publishing for this.”
Well Dagstine has zero artistic talent, and I strongly doubt he has the scientific aptitude to be either a pharmacist or a neuroscientist. He’s just trying to over inflate his IQ. Sadly, he looks like an idiot every time he tries that BS.
You see Dagstine, I have an education in the sciences, and I can tell when somebody like you plays loose with the facts and doesn’t do their homework.
Speaking of which, where’s that Coney Island project?
As somebody with a pharmacist in the family, I can tell you that no, it’s not “the same thing as running one of the cash registers at CVS or Rite-Aid?” Unless they only hire college grads for register jockeys and require a lifetime of continuing education for that position.
Maybe don’t stretch so far for an insult next time.
Wow. That sounded pissy, huh? I must be having a bad day.
Atomjack are a decent magazine. I think they need to be warned how Daggy is hurting their reputation.
As far as NOVA goes, they are a nobody publication and don’t give them a second thought.
Keep trying, Daggy. Maybe one day you’ll realise how unimportant you are.
Won’t happen with a major reality crash, Johaha. Daggy’s ego won’t let him face that fact.
‘science of publishing for this’
There’s a science to publishing? Who knew. I guess when you’re Daggy the Dumbass who gets nothing, you label everything as you see fit.
And if he is creating a mag with Kristy, I have one thing to say: hahahahahahahahahaaaaa!
o_O
D’stain and Krunchy, super-heroes to the blunderverse.
They’re changin’ da genrah!
They’re changin’ da genrah!
Daggy keeps talking about all these new projects and then they never seem to materialize.
Really, how many projects has Daggy introduced in threads and on his blog? How many of those have come true?
Come on, Daggy. Other than half-assed stories, can you complete anything you start?
Or do potential collaborators run when they discover how dumb you are?
How does one “change” a genre?
Do you turn horror into bread and thrillers into wine?
I’m not being flippant here, I just fail to see how you can reinvent or change a genre.
If I wanted to be flippant I’d say anything that is not available now is a “magazine of the future”.
So many people (myself inc.) have tried these new publications etc. They draw some interest (good or bad), sell a few etc and then someone else brings a new title out and so it continues.
Unless you’ve got the BIG money to promote it, pay your writers etc, you’re always going to be a small fishy in a huge pond. Just like Purpleverse, just like Phobia, just like all the other countless token paying and 4theluv publications.
I’m certainly not putting these projects down, just merely stating the obvious. If you want to change the world, you need a shit load of cash and some respect to back it up with.
Vern.
(P.S, buy Phobia it is awesome lol! :P)
I should also add that although it is a Tuesday, I’m home alone, consumed a bottle of wine and everything is awesome and I’m happy!
Viva la internet and all that sail in her!
(and no, I’m not drunk, just merely happy!)
I’ll shut up now lol.
Vern.
Lol, Vern! Keep those happy thoughts coming. I’ve got two weeks of relatives to contend with, plus a wedding this weekend.
I don’t think Dagstine is involved with Kristy — he tends to make these implications from time to time that he rubs elbows with various people. More often then not, they don’t want anything to do with him.
Oh, and while it should go without saying, it’s not my wedding, but my nephew’s wedding.
*Hugs* and good luck, Rain! 😀
Two weeks?! I’ll pop open another bottle in your honor lol! Best of luck my friend!
I’m actually looking forward to some time with them; however my brother in law and my other nephew haven’t spoken to one another for almost 2 years now-dram will ensue; tears will be shed, and alcohol will be consumed.
How good can Atomjack be if they’re putting out an anthology call Butterfly Affects? How does one write a story about the demeanor of an insect? For that matter, how good can they be if they accept no less than three of Lawwy’s tales?
The neuroscience bit always irritates me because I will never stop thinking about his stupidity in telling me that if my polio was as a bad as I claim that all I needed to do was to lie down for a bit whenever I felt sick.
Blergh. How many times does Mr. Neuroscience Career Opportunity need to be told that polio is a neurological disorder and not a matter of feeling a little sick.
How many times does Mr. Stupidity R. Daggy need to be told that he doesn’t know shit about anything?
Um, ulumpty times?
That’s about as vague and bland a title as you can get.
There’s nothing wrong with Dagstine that a lobotomy can’t fix.
Dagstine has a two year degree in journalism. To even begin to have a career opportunity in neuroscience, you have to have a four year degree.
http://www.universities.com/edu/Bachelor_degrees_in_Neuroscience.html
And as I said before Daggy probably barely graduated with passing grades.
Can you imagine that…
Going in to have a serious neural wiring problem checked out, and having Dagstine as your doctor?
Man, the idea makes my brain want to shut down in self-defense.
Were that the case, I’d just tell them to give me the scalpel, hacksaw and a copy of the instruction manual, sign half a dozen waivers and opt to do it myself.
The chance of recovery would be significantly higher.
NOVA scifi are crazy.
Get this: They say in their guidelines that they want proof of your degree and a B or better in English, as well as any writing workshops you’ve been to, before they will consider your work.
How the hell did Mr Illiterate Dagstine get in to NOVA?
Now I really know that NOVA are a wannabie, shit market and best avoided.
Nova has always been crazy. Dagstine has to have lied to them about his credentials
And maybe all the claims he is making is part of the facade he created to impress Nova?
oh and I started a thread on shocklines
I wonder if Phoolbin will have a freakout moment on his blog with this… or on SL.
Still, if those guys did the whole marathon with full packs, I’m impressed.
I thought NOVA’s requirements was a hair shy of ridiculous. Requiring writers to send a resume and transcript along with the manuscript to “qualify” for a half-penny a word paycheck that won’t go past $35 is a sure way to cement yourself into obscurity. They’ll be gone in a year or two, IMO.
Exactly. Why should anyone prove themselves by sending a resume and transcript just to earn a half penny—less than semi-pro rates?
No one should. It is absolutely ridiculous.
I always see Doctor Hurffurreurrrr for my brain surgery. He’s the best. (not sure on spelling 😉 )
That would be great if he kicked up a fuss on SL after Cuss’s premeptive.
Got me e and m round the wrong way there. 🙁
Is it just me, or is Dagstine’s response to Cuss’s thread completely tasteless?
Since when has Daggy had any taste? Or sense of decency, talent, or even the ability to communicate in plain English?
No idea why that’s even in that thread.
Did have a chuckle when checking out another thread. The one about ‘the VP McCain should have picked’.
For some reason Dagstine tries to chip in with his views, and makes a statement that then gets derided.
Not purposefully or maliciously. It just happens. Odd that.
I saw that Jack Haringa took Daggy to talk over it.
talk = task. Brain is fried.
Funny how when I found this article on “Munchausen by Internet” I thought of you all… and certain other people. How many thing on the warning signs list seem familiar?
http://incoldblogger.blogspot.com/2008/06/munchausen-by-internet-faking-illness.html
that’s an excellent article.
Just read from the Scrivener’s Error’s link to the other blog about a certain group of writers from Britain that’s formed into a Curzon Group. They’re here to change the face of the Thriller genre. And from reading this, doesn’t this look a little familiar, this song-and-dance routine coming not too long ago from a certain group unofficially called “The Legion of Nitwits”? They too are here to change the motherfucking face of teh genre, although not exactly thrillerdom but horrordom most likely. Oh yeh. Personally I’m not exactly looking forward to seeing that change. Why would I want to switch from reading a perfectly worded book to a dreadfully botched prose of dreck? No logic to this shit here.
The people involved with these groups in general don’t seem to realize that they are powerless to change what people want to read. I could be wrong, but they seem to think that distribution is the main problem that keeps their sales down.
Even if they were to succeed in making their books available to a wider audience, which, I think is what they really mean by “changing the genre,” the books won’t sell if they’re unreadable dreck.
Having spent over 25 years working for corporations large and small, I know that any real change to an industry’s way of operating comes slowly, or else it’s nothing but a cosmetic makeover that masks a “business as usual” mentality. Witness internal “reorganizations” that are basically meaningless to the average employee’s day to day job. Smaller companies can adapt to changing business climates faster than larger ones, but if they get it right, they usually get bought by, and merged into, a larger company.
I don’t think Corporate America is evil, by any means. It treated me quite well over the years, although I did have some lousy bosses along the way. However, I do think that any significant change to they way things are done involves change from within, not by renegades trying to buck the system. It’s also not done by some new person brought in to run the joint for a year or two who insists on imposing the management style he used at his last employer, merely to prove to his bosses that he’s doing something — or by someone who insists on new forms to use for ordering office supplies, or doing employee evaluations, for the same reason.
/diatribe
Not to mention making risky business ventures which resulted in monetary losses. And these twits think they’re geniuses?! (shakes head sadly.)
Maybe, just maybe, Nate, if you didn’t take what I typed so literally, you might actually realize that “a career in pharmacy” in Daggy’s mind really does equate to being a cash register jockey at the drug counter — not a pharmacist. It doesn’t for the rest of us who know better, but Daggy is Daggy, so take it as you will. 😉
Nate, a two year degree in journalism is not what most people think of when they ask for a college degree.
Dagstine does not have a four year degree in anything, not even underwater basket weaving.
Yeah, but if I didn’t take what you typed so literally, there wouldn’t be any of these fun little internet misunderstandings. Then how boring would life be? How… peaceful? 🙂